The wind blows in newcomers from all directions. "They" become "we," and we become a garden.--back cover.

"Cuando el padre de Reyna Grande deja a su esposa y sus tres hijos atrás en un pueblo de México para hacer el peligroso viaje a través de la frontera a los Estados Unidos, promete que pronto regresará; con el dinero suficiente para construir la casa de sus sueños. Sus promesas se vuelven más difíciles de creer cuando los meses de espera se convierten en años. Cuando se lleva a su esposa para reunirse con él, Reyna y sus hermanos son depositados...

"Jimmy Santiago Baca sends us on a journey with Sophia, an El Salvadorian mother facing a mountain of obstacles, carrying with her the burden of all that has come before: her husband's murder, a wrenching separation from her young son at the border, then rape and abuse at the hands of ICE, yet persevering: zI keep walking/carrying you in my thoughts,y she repeats, as she wills her boy to know she is on a quest to find him."--Back cover.

"People often learn about Ellis Island when they are taught the history of immigration in the US. However, many people also came through Angel Island. Discover the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station"--

"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 immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country's demographics. But over the next four decades,...

In the thick of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, and through the travel bans his administration issued in 2017, journalist Kelsey Freeman spent nine months interviewing Central American migrants in a shelter along the migrant path in central Mexico. Freeman interweaves these stories with research and anecdotes from her experiences to reveal the fundamental moral quandaries involved in contemporary migration - from the expanding gang violence...

"There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and rancor these days than immigration. In [this book], the renowned author Suketu Mehta offers a reality-based polemic that vitally clarifies the debate. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the globe, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. As he explains, the West...

En octubre de 2018, miles de centroamericanos avanzaron en caravana hacía Estados Unidos. Donald Trump los acusó de violentos, de terroristas, de pandilleros. Hubo brotes xenófobos. A pesar de todo, la mayoría siguió adelante. Huían de una de las partes más violentas y más miserables del mundo. Cada año, miles de personas se ponen en manos de coyotes para alcanzar el "sueño americano". -- page 4 of cover.

How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. These years shaped the emergence of what Natalia Molina describes as an immigration regime, which defined the racial categories that continue to influence perceptions in the United States about Mexican...

The story of Robert and Margarete and their children Johannes and Dorothea, who emigrate from Germany to the United States in 1850.