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Centres de détention (Immigration) États-Unis Histoire Emigration and immigration Political aspects Immigrants United States History Immigrants United States Social conditions Noncitizen detention centers United States History Translating and interpreting United States United States Emigration and immigration Government policy United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects États-Unis Émigration et immigration Politique gouvernementaleFilter By Subjects
Centres de détention (Immigration) États-Unis Histoire Emigration and immigration Political aspects Immigrants United States History Immigrants United States Social conditions Noncitizen detention centers United States History Translating and interpreting United States United States Emigration and immigration Government policy United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects États-Unis Émigration et immigration Politique gouvernementaleSummary: "Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen-- A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers-including award-winning writers, artists, and activists-that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers-including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 SOMMulligan Sepúlveda, J.J.
Summary: "For author Mulligan Sepúlveda, the son and husband of Spanish-speaking immigrants, the battle for immigration reform is personal. Mulligan Sepúlveda writes of visiting border detention centers, defending undocumented immigrants in court, and taking hisservices to JFK to represent people being turned away at the gates during Trump's infamous travel ban"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 325.73 MULSummary: "Originally told on-stage and adapted here for the page, these 36 fascinating, unique, and celebratory stories of migration, culture shock, family, and life come from well-known voices including Sonia Manzano, Alexander Chee, Andrae Aciman, Laura Gaomez,Aparna Nancherla as well as regular people hailing from every corner of the world. The past and present of immigration in the United States...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 ALINoorani, Ali
Summary: "This compelling approach to the immigration debate takes the reader behind the blaring headlines and into communities grappling with the reality of new immigrants and the changing nature of American identity. Ali Noorani, the Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, interviews nearly fifty local and national leaders from law enforcement, business, immigrant, and faith communities...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 NOOOliva, Alejandra
Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 OLIMinian, Ana Raquel
Summary: "A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's "family separation" policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024