Immigration Books

Immigration: Debating the Issues addreses and other important questions. It is divided in five parts, This publication covers several comtroversial areas; for example: Why is there a debate about immigration, immigration historical and legal background,the economists and politics of immigration, the cultural challenge of immigration and English as the national language.
The authors focus is on comtemporary debate about immigration it preceding the immigration act of 1965.
I agree with the author because he shows the debating issues of one very specific form.
i recommend this book to all people, especially the immigrants, because it shws the real situation of the immigrant in the U. S.

This is Book 2 of the Cluster Ship/Planet of the Golden Rule series-and it did not fail my expectations. In fact if anything it was better than book one! This book had even more page gripping features than the first book. It was harder to put down!!

I loved the science/medical application to reach new possibilities in space travel. The character relationships were nicely developed and expanded. Fascinating new worlds/alien species encountered.....when is the next book coming out! The hard part now is waiting for book 3!

Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View From Sending Communities is an anthology of essays by learned authors concerning the thorny issue of illegal immigration in America along the US-Mexico border, and how American border control activities have affected the behavior of migrants and potential migrants in Mexico. Of especial interest is that America's current policy of mere deterrence through sporadic, concentrated border guarding simply isn't achieving its intended goal; instead, undocumented immigrants are increasingly braving the unguarded territory amid no-man's-land, resulting in deadly toll of lives; others pay exorbitant fees to "coyotes" or professional people-smugglers; and more illegal immigrants than ever choose to stay indefinitely once present in America rather than return home, knowing how difficult and dangerous it would be to return. Individual essays in Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration further scrutinize details, from "U.S. Settlement Behavior and Labor Market Participation" to "Gender Differences". An up-to-date, expertly researched close study, and an absolute "must-read" for any policymaker or governmental figure dealing with this tangled and difficult issue.

I haven't had such a good laugh in a long time. This book is written very well and the illustrations are a great complement! As a preschool teacher in a setting where many children are learning English as a second language, this book helped me to open up conversations with the children. Most times, esp ESL children are shy when speaking in a group. But after reading this book, many of my children opened up
( By the way, my father's family was also from Napoli, Italia :)

This is a more interesting book than you might think from the usual superlatives on the back cover. Because the U.S. government supported a rightwing dictatorship against Marxist guerrillas in the 1980s, and tens of thousands of civilians died in massacres, North American scholarship on Guatemala tends to suffer from political correctness. Complexities often drop out of the picture. But these did not get left out of In Search of Providence, whose author Patricia Foxen follows K'iche' Mayas from their paranoia-inducing home town in Quiché Department to their paranoia-inducing existence in Providence, Rhode Island.
The town of Xinxuc (a pseudonym) is the kind of place that the army struck preemptively, killing off Catholic catechists and their families as suspected subversives before the guerrillas could make inroads. Xinxucians began reaching Providence in the mid-1980s, after most of the army killing had ended, but rife with traumatic memories of what they had done to each other at the army's command. Ironically, the first to make it to Providence were not the most direct victims of army persecution--such people were already dead or too repressed to have the money needed to go north. Instead, the first to arrive were in large part the agents of army repression--the local civil patrol leaders who had helped the army do all that killing.
One of the first Xinxucians to reach Providence was an ex-civil patrol leader named Cipriano. He offers hospitality to newcomers in order to charge them exorbitant prices and reputedly combines pastoring an evangelical church with witchcraft, with the result that Xinxucians are still afraid of him, not just at home but in the supposed safety of Rhode Island. In both locations, Foxen stresses, victims and victimizers have continued to live side by side. Illegal migration to the U.S. has become a common project for both, with non-judgementalism as a requirement for their precarious moral community. Unfortunately, their history of fratricide and their illegal status also require lives of subterfuge that are highly vulnerable to extortion. Meanwhile, back home enormous expectations and neglected family responsibilities feed what Foxen calls a "vicious transnational rumor mill." Still, in Providence the Xinxucians have found a city that welcomes cheap foreign labor. They desire a sixty to eighty hour work week and are viewed as respectful, hardworking employees. Despite anti-immigrant backlashes at the national level, U.S. institutions have offered them far more social services than they would receive in Guatemala. So Providence has delivered on some of its promises.
Like many anthropologists, Foxen is preoccupied with the problem of identity, which I doubt is how Xinxucians describe their problems, but she uses it to pull together important issues. One is that the K'iche's of Providence tend to be very ambivalent about their hometown, switching back and forth between nostalgia, traumatic memories, and shame over their indigenous origins, which they are completely disinterested in advertising in Providence, let alone deploying for political purposes. They have little interest in the Maya movement, one reason being that most of them don't identify as Mayas. Youth in particular are more focused on what they hope to find in Providence than on revitalizing K'iche' culture, which many of them seem to view as cruel and harmful, not least because of the way the army forced neighbors to betray each other during the violence. As for the violence, the first thing that most Xinxucians say about it is that they don't want to talk about it and many have little interest in the peace process or human rights groups.
Foxen has a keen ear for the contradictions of Guatemalan existence. If you know anyone who is heading to Guatemala with her head full of human rights and Mayan culture, this book would make an excellent choice, along with Daniel Wilkinson's Silence on the Mountain.

America is in the heart is an excellent book talking about a man's struggle to survive in his native islands and be accepted into the harsh society of America. This book truely shows the trials and hardships an immigrant goes through and I reccomend id to those who struggled as a child and struggled to be accepted into American society. This book makes us aware of the harsh realities of the way people were treated early this century. Famaly tradegies and struggles.

|Naomi Richman sets out the major issues faced by refugee children in England today. She gives numerous practical suggestions that could be used by any teachers to help children in ordinary classroom situations.

Zempel's work in compiling and translating this book of letters is a tribute to the Norwegian immigrant experience. Through these letters one discovers the great hardship and great joy brought to these individuals who in many circumstances travelled great distances on their own. Thank you for bringing insight to my own families experience through the voices of those who had the courage to venture before.

While Indentured Immigrants accurately traces the journey of a family from Maderia to the Sandwich Islands, it also spells out the history of that time and people and their struggles with life. Painstakenly researched, Philip Pasquini chronicles not only the life of the Pereira family but life aboard the Sterlingshire,a three-masted ship, sailing around Cape Horn. It includes numerous stories of life as an indentured servants in the cane fields of Hawaii, transition to life on the mainland, and the quest of people seeking a better life. Indentured Immigrants is a book that's meant to be read over and over. Graphics, maps, illustrations, and photographs enhance nearly every page. Full of data and poignant stories, this book is long overdue.

Over all this book is based on two historic frameworks, viz., American melting pot (salad bowl, assimliation, etc.), and canadian 'unity in diversity' (the famous phrase Nehru is attributed to).

Contents: Indians in North America; Independence and Conflict;
Immigration to North America; Making a New Life; Keeping the Culture Alive; Human Smuggling and Worker Exploitation; Future Immigration; Famous Indian Americans/Canadians; Glossary;
Further Reading; Internet Resources; Index.

About the book: An overview of immigration from India to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, and particularly since the technology boom of the 1990s when highly skilled professionals came seeking better incomes and opportunities than they could find in their homeland.An overview of immigration from India to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, and particularly since the technology boom of the 1990s when highly skilled professionals came seeking better incomes and opportunities than they could find in their homeland (source publisher).

The strength of the book is in its coverage, which is (by and large) credible, authentic, and from a neutral perspective, by way of illustrating how a community is striking a balance in a foreign, but adapted, home. The contents, in short portray two rays: a) major faiths that have Asian-Indian colors; and b) experiences of people, in their struggle, pains, labor, success (example, IT boomers, technology exporters, or Indian teachers, p. 52) and failure (human smuggling, the picture of an illegal immigrant in American jail on p. 86).

The weakness of the book is it tries to cover too much in a small space, about an immigrant population that is the second largest in the continent. In this sense it is a research work, but useful to a school student. It cannot be taken as a reference work for advanced study.

History and historiography needs facts and figures, which can be corroborated, NOT by way of gossip. An issue relates to few textual / contextual matters. For instance, a picture carries a note of the burnt train that led to the Gujarat riots of 2002, and the note states the train was bombed by a mob (p. 29). A word about the bombing is pertinent. No worthy source has used the word `bombed,' in reporting this riot. There are theories of burning the train from inside, or from outside, NONE says about bombing. This subject is sub-judicial as of this date, and interests all human watchers.

In trying to be neutral, the book however does not highlight the neutral contributors in the North American Mosaic. Many secular and democratic efforts, by educated and enlightened Indians, continue to contribute their might in making the ends meet. The utility of the book would have been enhanced, if it had separate chapters on US and Canadian narratives-because the twain are not identical in many respects, such as, laws, opportunities, treatment towards Multifaith multicultural and multilingual communities, etc. A socio-pysco-lignuist, searching in this book for accent, acculturation, adaptability, and so on, will have to look elsewhere. Vegetarians will be happy to find some food for thought, but Halal foods for Muslims, and Jhatka food for Sikhs is absent. Further, in this book, Canada gets less than 20% coverage. And in cataloging Canadian contributions, missing content includes first, Haroon Siddiqi (the award winning journalist, editor Emiratus Toronto Star); second, Rohinton Mistry is a writer who makes up a part of the Indian diaspora

A misnomer is the title, per se. In America, Indians are natives who are the real Americans (or call them local inhabitants of the continent), and NOT immigrants. The title of the book could be Asian Indians, Immigrants from India-to be precise and communicative-a title not just for publicity stunt.

As a Fulbrighter, and who has worked in identifying bridges across Indo-American cultures for over a decade, my book, Indian Contribution to American Studies (co-author: Dr. Mohammed Burhanuddin. Delhi: Anmol, 1997), has much more to offer in understanding how Indians--even if these Indians do not land in America-are, nevertheless, contributors to the glory that is and the grandeur that is emerging in the West.

Furthermore, Amazon.com offers an excellent opportunity to compile bibliographies. My Listmania (or bibliography), on "Immigrants" is a useful list of books for those who are looking for similar titles): www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/D0GU65VVJ6CO/ref=cm_aya_av.lm_more/002-0928635-8893604

See my other lists: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-fil/-/AF9SY5YLN3JDX/ref=cm_aya_bb_lm/102-6017208-1038532