{"product_id":"the-lives-of-immigrants-and-refugees-tales-of-migration-hope-grief-and-finding-home-in-nebraska-9781496249647","title":"The Lives of Immigrants and Refugees: Tales of Migration, Hope, Grief, and Finding Home in Nebraska","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman beings have always migrated. To be on the move, searching for a more hospitable climate, greater resources, and a welcoming community, is part of our human DNA. All kinds of large, uncontrollable forces--war, the threat of genocide, climatic changes, political exile, and economic hardship--propel people to leave behind everything familiar and begin their lives over again in a strange place, sometimes with only the clothes on their backs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Immigrants and Refugees\u003c\/i\u003e offers thirty-one essays by immigrants and refugees who now call Lincoln, Nebraska, home. These individuals have found support, belonging, and opportunity through the collaborative work of Lincoln's New Americans Task Force members and the Lincoln\/Lancaster County Welcoming and Belonging Strategic Plan. The stories in this book are brilliant, harrowing, poetic, and revelatory. They're also stories of survival, resilience, creativity, and a staggering amount of work: learning a new language, navigating a challenging immigration system, being perceived as a foreigner, struggling to grasp strange new customs and traditions, working one's way out of extreme poverty, working through trauma and grief. Those of us who have had the good fortune of \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e being displaced have much to learn by listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew F. Bokovoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496249647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeirion Gaylor Baird\u003c\/b\u003e is the mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew F. Bokovoy\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior acquisitions editor at the University of Nebraska Press, specializing in Native American and Indigenous studies, general nonfiction of the American West, and borderlands history. His articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Planning Association\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Mexico Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Guill\u003c\/b\u003e is communications director at the Asian Community and Cultural Center. She is also the Welcoming Communities coordinator at Cultural Centers of Lincoln.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle Carr Hassler \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor emerita of journalism at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was a newspaper reporter for sixteen years in Colorado, Arizona, and Nebraska. Hassler has received nine national teaching awards, most from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication-refereed competitions and her students have won national and regional awards, including the 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Digital Reporting. She was executive director of the Nebraska High School Press Association and received the R. Neale Copple Friend of Journalism Award in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy Castro\u003c\/b\u003e is Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies and director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Book\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2012), the essay collection \u003ci\u003eIsland of Bones\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2012), the fiction collection \u003ci\u003eHow Winter Began\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2015), and the literary thrillers \u003ci\u003eHell or High Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNearer Home\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlight Risk\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOne Brilliant Flame\u003c\/i\u003e. She edited \u003ci\u003eFamily Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2013), and serves as the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eMachete, \u003c\/i\u003e a series in innovative creative nonfiction by underrepresented voices at Ohio State University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmira Ibrahimpasic \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of practice in School of Global Integrative Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTranslocal: Contemporary Local and Urban Cultures Journal, Island Studies Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCAPA: The Global Education Network Academic Publications.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Matthew F. Bokovoy \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":67750675939485,"sku":"9781496249647","price":35.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_b6769e1e-53a0-43e6-81c8-907201d57fd6.jpg?v=1793174598","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-lives-of-immigrants-and-refugees-tales-of-migration-hope-grief-and-finding-home-in-nebraska-9781496249647","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}