Immigrant Stories: Nonfiction

What's it like to move your whole life to a new place? Read these true stories, personal experiences, opinions, and history

Updated June 5, 2023
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Immigrant Stories: Nonfiction

What's it like to move your whole life to a new place? Read these true stories, personal experiences, opinions, and history

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Beyond welcome : centering immigrants in our Christian response to immigration
González, Karen
Paper Book
★ Publishers Weekly starred review"A top-notch Christian look at immigration, humane and full of heart."--Publishers WeeklyMany American Christians have good intentions, working hard to welcome immigrants with hospitality and solidarity. But how...
Brother, I'm dying
Danticat, Edwidge
Audiobook
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New...
City of dreams : the 400-year epic history of immigrant New York
Anbinder, Tyler
Ebook
This sweeping history of New York's millions of immigrants, both famous and forgotten, is "told brilliantly [and] unforgettably" ( The Boston Globe). Written by an acclaimed historian and including maps and photos, this is the story of the peoples who have come to New York...
Conditional citizens : on belonging in America
Lalami, Laila
Paper Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice * Best Book of the Year: Time, NPR, Bookpage, L.A. Times What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize­­-finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely...
Separated : inside an American tragedy
Soboroff, Jacob
Paper Book
Now a major film by Academy Award winner Errol Morris THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The seminal book on the child-separation policy." --Rachel Maddow Featuring updated reporting and a new afterword: The award-winning NBC News correspondent lays bare the full truth...
Solito : a memoir
Zamora, Javier
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller * Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography * Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award * A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century
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