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The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin
A radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of...
After the Romanovs: Russian exiles in Paris between the wars
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of...
Keeping the House
Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 British Book Awards, Book of the Year Discover Award Longlisted for the 2022...
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and...
Homelands: The History of a Friendship
THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 'Remarkable' - The Times 'Achingly beautiful' - Guardian Beautiful in unusual and wonderful ways' '-...
Language City: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin,...
Every Body Counts: Money, lies, and the hidden trade in human lives
Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing borders, this ground-breaking investigation reveals...
This Happened to Me: A Reckoning
"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." - Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For...
Peoplequake: Mass Migration, Ageing Nations and the Coming Population
A groundbreaking book that reveals the truth about population levels, and where they will take us in the future. Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic...
The Jaguar's Children: The remarkable novel from the winner of the
Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned....
Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground
Eric Schlosser explores three of the most prominent and least understood features of globalization; drugs, pornography and migrant labour. "Reefer Madness" traces the history of the contemporary "war on drugs"...
Every Body Counts: Money, lies, and the hidden trade in human lives
Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing borders, this ground-breaking investigation reveals...
The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigration, Exile and Imperialism
The Irish have always been a travelling people. In the centuries after the fall of Rome, Irish missionaries carried the word of Christianity throughout Europe, while soldiers and mariners from...
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History
Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us. Native...
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant
In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe...
I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless
'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of...
Do They Hear You When You Cry
Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from...
Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times - has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns...
The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration
In The British Dream , David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over...
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America
From the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us , an "extraordinary" ( The Denver Post ) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and...
Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets - A Journey from the Edge of
For hundreds of years the Irish Island of Great Blasket was home to a community of people who lived without gas, electricity or running water. In 1953 life there became...
Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey
The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy's journey across the world to find safety When Mir was thirteen, he was forced to flee his village...
Defend the Border and Save Lives: Solving Our Most Important
The groundbreaking book former ICE Director Tom Homan wrote before President Trump appointed him "border czar." Tom Homan has been at the forefront of the conservative fight to secure our...
Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey
The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy's journey across the world to find safety When Mir was thirteen, he was forced to flee his village...
This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family's...
City of Dreams
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With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe....
Amnesty
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face...
Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
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The voices Australia should hear 100% of the proceeds from this title will go to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre This beautifully illustrated hardback captures the stories of those who...
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape. For half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have...
Still Waters in a Storm: The One-Room School Where Everyone Listens to
Previously published as Kid Quixotes , the unlikely, inspiring true story of a one-room school where children of undocumented immigrants and their teacher unlock the revolutionary power of listening. "Haff...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle...
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and
" "Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America." " - Publishers Weekly "[These contributions] touch on so many different...
New Beginnings: Issues and Needs in International Kinship Care
Children and young people, many from conflict-affected countries, who arrive in Australia on orphan relative visas are highly vulnerable. In this report professionals with experience of working in this field...
God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners
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This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists, and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles or emigres displaced from their cultural and...
The Cornish Overseas: The Epic Story of the "Great Migration"
The story of the migration of the Cornish people throughout the world is an epic. Philip Payton is one of the world's leading scholars of the movement of Cornish people...
Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in
A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, complex and controversial history. Captives and...
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine
***A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*** *** Shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year: Older Non Fiction The Week Junior Book Awards *** Featured on This Morning, Steph's...
This Happened to Me: A Reckoning
"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." - Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For...
The Passport in America: The History of a Document
In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as...
Home to Biloela: The story of the Tamil family that captured our
It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumps on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey that would catapult Priya and her family...
To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and
Between 1870 and 1940, tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the center of the publishing, art, musical, theatrical, and educational worlds. Even...
Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto
After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and...
Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities
Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before. Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities....
Cooper & Gorfer: Between These Folded Walls, Utopia
'What do you hold close? Where is your secret place of belonging? If you had to leave everything behind and begin again, who would you be?' In a series of...
London: Immigrant City
TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has...