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Language
English
Description
"July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father...
2) Cari Mora
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
4) Imagine
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet." -- Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women's emotional worlds and aspirations....
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes author's note.
Growing up in 1860s China, Tam Ling Fan has lived a life of comfort. Her father is wealthy enough to provide for his family but unconventional enough to spare...
Author
Publisher
ILR Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations, map
Language
English
Description
Examines the Indian migratory workforce in Bahrain and the Gulf States who work to extract oil from the region, the kafala system under which they operate, the potential for the exploitation of workers, and the social segregation of citizens and the labor force.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The long-lost tale of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history. In 1864, as the Civil War still raged, throngs of Chinese migrants began to converge on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad. Over the next five years, they blasted tunnels through the granite cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laid tracks across the burning Nevada...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of two young men who come of age during an African revolution, drawn from the safe confines of the university campus into the intensifying clamor of the streets outside. But as the line between idealism and violence...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It began with a crunch of leaves and earth. So early, so cold, the branches shone with ice. I'd returned to collect the songbirds. They are worth more than their weight in gold." Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the black market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha, who works on the island as a nanny and maid--having...
Author
Publisher
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 160 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience changed significantly during the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. In this book, the author draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation on the lives of migrants.
13) Borderless
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A docu-poem about the lives of undocumented workers. Gives voice to the dreams and struggles of undocumented workers, Geraldo, a Costa Rican construction worker, and Angela, a second-generation Caribbean domestic worker, bringing to life problems of labour exploitation and family separation.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, France attempted to replenish its weakened work force by recruiting men from North Africa. In 1974, the French government relaxed its immigration policy by enacting the "family reunion" law, a euphemism which allowed families of Algerian men to join them. Zouina is a woman who parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; she finds herself feeling imprisoned between a distant husband who scorns her, a hostile...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (26 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines proposed and existing guest worker programs designed to address the results of globalization, low birth rate and an aging labor force. Looks at immigrant education, ambition and self-employment, worker job security and the growth of sex industries.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA (On the Seventh Day), a fiction feature from director Jim McKay (GIRLS TOWN, OUR SONG, EVERYDAY PEOPLE), follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. José,...
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"EN EL S©PTIMO D©A (On the Seventh Day), a fiction feature from director Jim McKay (GIRLS TOWN, OUR SONG, EVERYDAY PEOPLE), follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. Jos©♭,...