Willa is a thirteen-year-old orphan shipped to the new world in 1795. Resourceful and strong-willed, she survives many hardships before travelling on foot from Hudson's Bay to Fort Edmonton with native companions who show her a...
Emigration and immigration
- Auteur:Demers, BarbaraSommaire:
- Auteur:Parmar, Prabhjot, Somaia-Carten, NilaSommaire:
This collection features the writing of women from places as diverse as Slovakia and Portugal, India and Uruguay, Korea and Kenya, Italy and Iran. They look and think differently. They have distinctive traditions, cultures and history....
- Auteur:El Akkad, OmarSommaire:
From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War : a new novel—beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving—that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "It is one thing to put...
- Auteur:Welch, Liz, Yousafzai, MalalaSommaire:
With her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai starts with her own story of displacement to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ever known. She also shares the personal...
- Auteur:Johnson, PeterSommaire:
A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new...
- Auteur:Walia, HarshaSommaire:
Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism...
- Auteur:Novakovich, JosipSommaire:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stories take on an aura of memoir as they invite us into the...
- Auteur:Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, Ho, VanSommaire:
After the Vietnam War, a young girl is left behind in the care of her grandmother when the rest of her family flees the new communist regime by boat. Once settled in North America, her parents will send for her; but in the meantime, Van...
- Auteur:Gatrell, PeterSommaire:
Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian Peter Gatrell reminds us that the history...
- Auteur:Nye, Naomi ShihabSommaire:
Here are some things Aref loves about his home. Mish-Mish, his catThe dunes in the desertHis friends Diram and Sulima Fresh apricotsCrispy fish served in basketsHis grandfather, SidiHis excellent rock collectionThe turtles of OmanAref...
- Auteur:Bumsted, J. M.Sommaire:
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
- Auteur:Villalobos, Juan PabloSommaire:
For this striking, stripped-down account of youth immigration, Villalobos interviewed teens at various stages of the immigration process to illustrate their stories-the physical and emotional difficulties of their travels. He then...
- Auteur:Boraks-Nemetz, LillianSommaire:
The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived...
- Auteur:Clavelle, KarenSommaire:
The Mother Goose Letters comprises the annotated correspondence between Mother Goose and her cohorts in Britain concerning migration to the Canadian Prairies. The letters reveal both her attempts to wheedle her fellow nursery rhyme...
- Auteur:Irani, AnoshSommaire:
FINALIST, GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR DRAMA In the latest play from Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Anosh Irani, we meet eighteen-year-old Hasan Siddiqui, who lives in a bustling Muslim quarter of Bombay. He escapes...
- Auteur:Lee, ErikaSommaire:
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in...
- Auteur:Kang, Jay CaspianSommaire:
"A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The New York Times Magazine that explores-and reimagines-Asian American identity in a Black and white world. In 1965, a new...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today, there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left...
- Auteur:Saikaley, SoniaSommaire:
Amir Radi hates washing dishes. When he left Beirut, with a tightly grasped suitcase, he hadn’t expected he’d end up at a Middle Eastern restaurant with old cooks and dirty dishes. Amir knows his immigrant dream has somehow drowned in...
- Auteur:Evans, Paul A.Sommaire:
Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established...