Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

Immigrants are motivated to leave their former countries of citizenship, or habitual residence, for a variety of reasons, including a lack of local access to resources, a desire for economic prosperity, to find or engage in paid work, to better their standard of living, fami
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New Releases Tagged "Immigration"

A Tender Age
Good People
Daughters of the Sun and Moon
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Lies They Told
A Guardian and a Thief
Small Boat
Dream Count
The New Girl (The New Girl, #1)
Solito
The Wind Knows My Name
Dschinns
A Tender Age
C'était ça ou mourir
Labor: One Woman's Work
This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
Americanah
Solito
Inside Out & Back Again
The Undocumented Americans
American Dirt
Dreamers
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
The Arrival
Exit West
Behold the Dreamers
The Sun Is Also a Star
Other Words for Home
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
The Book of Unknown Americans
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
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Refugee Reading
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Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
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Ethnic Conflict
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Warsan Shire
I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark. Home is the barrel of a gun. No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying--leave, run, now. I don't know what I've become. ...more
Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Tony Blair
A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.
Tony Blair

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