Emigration and immigration
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Auteur:Shaw, Janet BeelerSommaire:Taking place in 1854, Kirsten's stories follow the young Swedish immigrant and her family as they attempt to start a new life on a farm in frontier Minnesota.
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Auteur:Diaz, JunotSommaire:From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a...
- Auteur:Urrea, Luis AlbertoSommaire:
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact,...
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Auteur:Lai, ThanhhaSommaire:Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
- Auteur:Novakovich, JosipSommaire:
As Serb, Croat, and Bosnian Muslim armies clash in the cities and countryside of the former Yugoslavia, it's hard to tell the front lines from the home front. The characters in Infidelities––soldiers and civilians alike––are caught in...
- Auteur:Jónas ÞórSommaire:
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as “New Iceland,”...
- Auteur:Di Sciascio-Andrews, JosieSommaire:
From the moment explorer Giovanni Caboto stepped onto Canadian soil, Italians have left their footprints on Canadian history.
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Auteur:Kohli, Marjorie, Bagnell, Kenneth, Pettit, Mary, Corbett, Gail H.Sommaire:In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent...
- Auteur:Goldberg, AdaraSommaire:
In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required...
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Auteur:Ayukawa, Michiko MidgeSommaire:Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941 is a fascinating investigation of Japanese migration to Canada prior to the Second World War. It makes Japanese-language scholarship on the subject available for the first time, and also draws...
- Auteur:Pignat, CarolineSommaire:
The Byrne family is strong, but are being tested everyday as life becomes more and more desperate in 19th century rural Ireland, forcing the family to leave their homeland.
- Auteur:Neelan GovenderSommaire:
Girrmit Tales, by Neelan Govender, is a collection of unusual stories of Indian indentured labourers in Natal.
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Auteur:Iacovetta, FrancaSommaire:An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the "gatekeepers"--mostly middle-class individuals and institutions whose definitions of...
- Auteur:Cluskey, Emma McSommaire:
In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linking refugees with terrorism and threats...
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Auteur:Little, JeanSommaire:Nine-year-old Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family - somehow she can never do anything right. She bumps into tables, and she can't read the chalkboard at school. Her perfect brothers and sisters call her 'Awkward Anna.'...
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Auteur:Bissonnette, LiseSommaire:In the stifling heat of summer in a northern Canadian mining town, Marie, a young teacher, is fascinated by her new friend Corrine, a waitress who is determined to squeeze every drop of experience and sensation from life. As summer ends...
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Auteur:Omidvar, Ratna, Wagner, DanaSommaire:The global number of people currently displaced from their home country--more than 50 million--is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a...
- Auteur:Lee, Jen SookfongSommaire:
A look at how human migration has changed the world. Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, with photographs and illustrations throughout.
- Auteur:Cancian, SoniaSommaire:
In a micro-analysis of 400 private letters, including three collections that incorporate letters from both sides of the Atlantic, Sonia Cancian provides new evidence on the bidirectional flow of communication during migration. She...
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