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Illegal immigration is among the most challenging and divisive issues facing America. With few changes in immigration laws since 1986, the undocumented population has swelled to an estimated 11 million. Deconstructed unravels these economic issues and their human toll through the eyes of Houston businessman Stan Marek, who’s watched the immigration crisis unfold over 40 years.

Undocumented is the story of immigrant workers who have come to the United States without papers. Everyday these men and women join the workforce and contribute positively to society. Juan grew up in Mexico working in the fields to help provide for his family. Struggling for money, he crosses over into the United States and becomes an undocumented worker, living in a poor neighborhood and working hard to survive. Although he is able to get a job as a busboy at a restaurant, he is severely undercompensated - he receives less than half of the minimum wage!

His parents, village, and Panama Canal Zone events prepared him. Above and beyond his tribulations, this Afro-Latino Caribbean man did not allow racism to stop his smile, resolve, or journey forward. Walk with him through his eyes.

This riveting collection of true stories from Dr. Martina Scholtens is filled with hope and humor, and together make up a deeply moving portrait of how one doctor attempts to provide quality care and advocacy for patients while remaining culturally sensitive, even as she wrestles with guilt, awareness of her own privilege, the faith she was raised with, and vicarious trauma after hearing countless stories of suffering. Based on her experiences, Scholtens’ writing explores the transformative moments in which a doctor-patient relationship becomes a human-human connection.

In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric firsthand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.

Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the bestselling and award-winning Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes and Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family.

Emigrar a los Estados Unidos y convertirse en un residente permanente puede ser confuso y puede demandar mucho tiempo. Y para víctimas de maltrato en particular, esto puede parecer un sueño imposible de alcanzar. Sin embargo, existe una esperanza para los inmigrantes: una Visa Humanitaria. En el libro Inmigración Honestamente, la abogada de inmigración Erika Cisneros comparte historias de personas que, al igual que tú, no sabían que el maltrato personal y laboral que recibían cumplía con los requisitos necesarios para obtener una Visa Humanitaria.

世界であいつぐ迫害や人権侵害．「自国第一」を掲げるポピュリズムの台頭．状況が年ごとに複雑になるなか，国際社会は葛藤を抱えつつも難民保護の取り組みを続けている．各国はいかなる論理と方法で受け入れを行なってきたのか．

Dear reader, picking up this book is the first step of your immigration journey. Thank you for involving me in that worthy pursuit. “Ask Sophie: The Founder’s Guide to Visas & Green Cards” was written with you in mind. Inside you’ll find chapters on every path open ahead of you, from a F-1 student visa to an O-1A for extraordinary ability, from bringing your family over with you to hiring international talent from all over the world. This book is my dream, and I’m here to help you achieve yours.

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in Italy, she learns her mother works on a farm far from the city. Her only connection, a mean-spirited Chinese auntie, puts Ye Pei to work in a small-town café. Rather than giving up and returning to China, a determined Ye Pei takes on a grueling schedule.

Why are Muslim men portrayed as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating? Across western societies, Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to believe in Islam today, to have forged your beliefs and identity in the shadow of 9/11 and the War on Terror? Exploding stereotypes from both inside and outside the faith, The Muslim Problem shows that while we may think we know all about Islam we are often wrong about even the most basic facts.

Millionen Muslime sind in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten als Gastarbeiter überwiegend aus der Türkei, als Flüchtlinge aus Syrien und anderen Staaten des Nahen Ostens nach Deutschland gekommen. Hamed Abdel-Samad rechnet ab mit der Politik, die die Integration zu lange konterkariert, und den Muslimen, die sich in Parallelgesellschaften verbarrikadiert haben. Deutsch-Türken unterstützen Erdogan, in Europa geborene Muslime verüben Terroranschläge. Hamed Abdel-Samad prangert die integrationsverhindernden Elemente der islamischen Kultur an. Er rechnet aber auch mit europäischen Integrationslügen ab.

Il sindaco di Riace e il domani dei migranti in analisi di Repubblica: Il paladino dei migranti caduto nella polvere: "Segno dell’aria che tira" di Alessandra Ziniti; Riace, il sindaco e i confini della legge di Attilio Bolzoni; Il silenzio sullo Ius soli di Jhumpa Lahiri; Lucano, il sindaco clandestino di Riace, di Francesco Merlo; A bordo della nave che sfida il blocco: "Saremo noi italiani ad aiutare chi fugge" di Marco Mensurati; Riace, Mimmo Lucano: "Io ho salvato vite, spero che l'inchiesta non diventi un fatto politico" di Alessia Candito.

Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana, was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego. But then something changed. Over the past 10 years, Mexico’s third-largest city became one of the world’s most dangerous. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast. When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could be understood only as one symptom among many.

During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war, chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more diverse than it had ever been before. Through diaries, letters, and interviews, Mixing It tells of ordinary lives pushed to extraordinary lengths.

Helen Thorpe, author of a trio of award-winning books about the experiences of immigrants, refugees, and veterans, has turned her writerly lens on her own family, neighborhood, and ethnicity. In Finding Motherland, Thorpe shares seven essays she has written on the related themes of family, food, and migration, sharing observations about race and privilege.

For decades, immigrants have flocked to the United States of America, inspired by its spirit of freedom and equal opportunity. However, many fail to consider the barriers they may have to face when looking for entrepreneurial avenues. Financial Literacy for Immigrant Entrepreneurs is grounded in research, taking its roots from the state of financial literacy in immigrants of African descent in the United States. It lays out the financial system, which hurdles one might encounter, and possible resources that may aid immigrants during their quest for upward social mobility.

Hannah Arendt vidste, hvad det vil sige at flygte. I 1933 tog hun, som mange andre tyske jøder, flugten fra det nazistiske Tyskland gennem Europa og til New York. Her brugte hun resten af sit liv på at tænke og skrive - ikke mindst om flygtninge, statsløshed og rettigheder. I denne bog samles tre af Arendts vigtigste flygtningetekster. Hannah Arendts personlige fortælling om at være flygtning er så stærk, at den bliver tidsløs.

A searing, enlightening polemic about the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers. Why did you come to the USA? When a child migrant arrives in the US all alone, this is the first question he or she will be asked. It's the beginning of an official interview of 40 questions used by the federal immigration court in New York City.

Who are the Minutemen? Patriots? Racists? Vigilantes? Harel Shapira lived with the Minutemen and patrolled the border with them, seeking neither to condemn nor praise them, but to understand who they are and what they do. Challenging simplistic depictions of these men as right-wing fanatics with loose triggers, Shapira discovers a group of men who long for community and embrace the principles of civic engagement. Yet these desires and convictions have led them to a troubling place.