Political Science - Public Policy - Immigration

"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told--and told ourselves--in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams When and how did migration...

An impassioned argument by a young Mexican American woman for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Abuses in detention centers. Detention of handicapped children. The silencing of activists. Each week, another attack on immigrant rights comes to light. It's going to be...

A hilarious and satirically accurate introduction to the United States immigration system from comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres Medina "A funny, empathetic, and formally inventive guide to the U.S. immigration system." (Kirkus) / "A funny book about...

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An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.Author: Harsha WaliaPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 02/09/2021Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80dISBN: 9781642592696About the AuthorHarsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing...

Informed by his life journey, former US ambassador to Mexico, US senator, and US secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar shares his unrivaled vantage on the US-Mexico relationship, the border and migration crisis, and his belief that the diversity of our many communities and...

A uniquely broad and fair-minded guide to making immigration policy ethical.Immigration is now a polarizing issue across most advanced democracies. But too much that is written about immigration fails to appreciate the complex responses to the phenomenon. Too many observers assume imaginary consensus, avoid...

A gripping, on-the-ground account of the growing movement against state violence, featuring interviews with those on the frontlines of the fight for immigrant justice and what it means to belong. Features a foreword by Salvadoran American journalist and author Roberto Lovato. A war is...

Butterfly is the inspiring story of how one woman saved fellow refugees from drowning--and how she went on to become an Olympic swimmer. When young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini realized her boat's engine shut down as she was traveling from Syria to Greece with...

Canada in Decay is the first scholarly book questioning the undemocratic policy of mass immigration and racial diversification in Canada. This book demolishes the myth that Canada is a "nation of immigrants" by demonstrating that Canada was founded by Indigenous Quebecois, Acadians, and English...

How the U.S. law targeting Chinese laborers impacted families for generations.Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downturn stirred up anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States. Capitalizing on this prejudice, the government...

2018 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Illustrated with Maps. A leading conservationist in the United States, Madison Grant's preoccupation with biodiversity was not limited to wildlife, but also extended to humans, particularly where...

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 - An award-winning journalist's exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics "A deeply reported, surprisingly personal exploration of a phenomenon...

A provocative and timely examination of how the American political parties have brought us to a crossroads for democracy--and where these new paths lead for the fragile American republic.Our recent elections have been anything but normal. In Democracy on the Edge, leading political scientists...

LA INMIGRACIÓN HA LLEGADO A UN PUNTO CRÍTICO Tras cuatro décadas de estancamiento político y cuatro años de la política de fronteras abiertas sumamente irresponsable bajo el presidente Biden, el pueblo estadounidense exige soluciones reales. Pero para lograrlas, se necesita voluntad política: cruzar las...

Immigration has reached a breaking point. After four decades of political gridlock--and four years of President Biden's incredibly reckless open-borders policy--Americans are demanding real solutions, but such solutions require the political willpower to cross party lines, stand up, and say, "enough is enough." ICE...

NOW A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!"Essential reading...entirely suited to a turbulent moment." --Washington PostA MacArthur "Genius" shares her inspiring story, from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powerful immigrant youth movement.Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story for both a young woman finding her true...

A New York Times bestseller - Winner of the Hillman Book Prize and Robert F Kennedy Book Award - Finalist for the LA Times Book Award - A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 - Named a Best Book of the Year...

A National Bestseller - A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 - Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, PBS NewsHour, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Christian Science Monitor, and Counterpunch - One of Barack...

The 1960s was a period of radical social change. Many young people rejected the politics and values of the day and decided to "drop out" and migrate to the country. The desire for an independent rural life on the land took many of them...