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How Fast Can You Run
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The Secret River
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Lights Out: A Cuban Memoir of Betrayal and Survival
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Dania Rosa Nasca (Goodreads Author)
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Mestizos Come Home!: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity (Volume 19) (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Américas Series)
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Going the Wrong Path
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Arthur Weissmann (Goodreads Author)
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The Secret Side of Empty
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Maria E. Andreu (Goodreads Author)
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Роман про людське призначення
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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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Divided We Stand: Racism in America from Jamestown to Trump
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Awakened by Love
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Azin Sametipour (Goodreads Author)
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Full Circle
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Regina Timothy (Goodreads Author)
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The Unenviable: Stories of Psychological Trauma and Hardship among Immigrants and their Families.
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The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
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Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing: A Library of America Special Publication
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Ilan Stavans (Editor)
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The Kappa Child
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Journeys: An American Story
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Flotsam
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Marine, Public Servant, Kansan: The Life of Ernest Garcia
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Dennis Raphael Garcia (Goodreads Author)
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Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights
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Mother Country
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Irina Reyn (Goodreads Author)
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Barangay to Broadway: Filipino American Theater History
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Walter Ang (Goodreads Author)
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Refugee Changemakers : From displaced to indispensable
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Apoorva Mittal (Goodreads Author)
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The One Who Wrote Destiny
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Nikesh Shukla (Goodreads Author)
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I am Home portraits of immigrant teenagers
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Erica McConnell (Editor)
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Miss Ex-Yugoslavia: A Memoir
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Sofija Stefanovic (Goodreads Author)
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When a Bulbul Sings
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Hawaa Ayoub (Goodreads Author)
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Galway Bay (Of Irish Blood #1)
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The Blame
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Searching for a Place to Call Home: A Tale About the Power of Art
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Bilal sur la route des clandestins
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Stateless: One Man’s Struggle for an Identity
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Indivisible
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Daniel Aleman (Goodreads Author)
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Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
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Kelly Yang (Goodreads Author)
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The California Immigrant (Monterey Bay #1)
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Barbara Anne King (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Cuba Libre: Una historia real de amor sobre escapar dentro y fuera de Cuba
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Cheryl Ness (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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How Fires End
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Marco Rafalà (Goodreads Author)
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A Woman Is No Man
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Etaf Rum (Goodreads Author)
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The Other Side of the Bridge
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Sophia Nesamoney (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Shadows of Exile: Return of the African King
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Momar Njai (Goodreads Author)
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En frosk i fjorden: Kunsten å bli norsk
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Lorelou Desjardins (Goodreads Author)
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Sculpting the Elephant
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Sylvia Vetta (Goodreads Author)
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Victims of Hope
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Laughter with the Tears
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Suzanne Butler (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Finding Jesus at the Border
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How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
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Boy Genius: A Novel (Akashic Urban Surreal Series)
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Yongsoo Park (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Between Everything and Nothing
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Joe Meno (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
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Nancy Danielson Mendenhall (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Deep Creek
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Dana Hand (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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The Foley Artist: Stories
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Ricco Villanueva Siasoco (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement
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Each of Us Killers
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Jenny Bhatt (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Together Tea
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Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)
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Mamaji
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Elisheba Haqq (Goodreads Author)
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 123,431 ratings
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Russian Tattoo: A Memoir
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Elena Gorokhova (Goodreads Author)
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At the End of the World, Turn Left
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Zhanna Slor (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez
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Mother Lode: a historical novel
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Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
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Kat Chow (Goodreads Author)
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The Septembers of Shiraz
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Moonlight Hope: A Muslim American Coming of Age Story
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Nora Salam (Goodreads Author)
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A Table for Us
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Letters from Johnny (184) (Essential Prose Series)
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Wayne Ng (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Picture Bride
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Four Dervishes
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Hammad Rind (Goodreads Author)
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The Light of a Cuban Son
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His Father's Disease: Stories
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Aruni Kashyap (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Trees Without Roots
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Ella Colic (Goodreads Author)
4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Matchmaker's Gift
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Lynda Cohen Loigman (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 23,007 ratings
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In Every Mirror She's Black
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Lola Akinmade Åkerström (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 10,839 ratings
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Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
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True North, Down South: Tales of a Professional Canadian in America
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David Wayne Stewart (Goodreads Author)
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San Francisco Pilgrimage: Memoir of a Lifelong Love Affair with My City
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Tania Romanov (Goodreads Author)
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The Union of Synchronised Swimmers
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The Paris Wife
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Paula McLain (Goodreads Author)
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Pilgrim to No Country
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From Utopia to The American Dream
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The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
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Thenmozhi Soundararajan (Goodreads Author)
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Permiso de residencia: Crónicas de la migración ecuatoriana a España
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The Fox Hollow Encounters: A Historical Fiction Novel
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Nilish Gupte (Goodreads Author)
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The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival
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Hotel Cuba
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Aaron Hamburger (Goodreads Author)
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Hester
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Laurie Lico Albanese (Goodreads Author)
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Broughtupsy
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Thirty-Eight Days of Rain
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Eva Asprakis (Goodreads Author)
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They Dream in Gold
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Tell It to Me Singing
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Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America
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Luis A. Miranda Jr. (Goodreads Author)
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Frying Plantain
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Zalika Reid-Benta (Goodreads Author)
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Americana
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Wild World
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Peter S. Rush (Goodreads Author)
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Open Turns: From Dutch Girl to New Australian―A Memoir
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Hendrika de Vries (Goodreads Author)
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The Last Patient
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Tudor Alexander (Goodreads Author)
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Charlotte Gray (Those Regency Belles Book 2)
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Victoria Chatham (Goodreads Author)
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Sleight of Hand (Maya Book 1)
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When Secrets Bloom: A gripping, enchanting Transylvanian historical fiction novel: Some secrets heal. Others kill. (Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows Book 1)
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Patricia Furstenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Great Chinese Art Heist: Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures
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Ralph Pezzullo (Goodreads Author)
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The Undocumented Americans
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Just an FYI. Since you've tagged this list with aliens, it's showing up under the Science Fiction > Aliens genre.
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My vote is for Tortilla Curtain. Here's a post about Tortilla Curtain's relevance to the current immigration reform debate: http://newsworthynovels.blogspot.com/...
How are we defining "immigrant" here? I was surprised to see Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, since the protagonists were Japanese-Americans, born in the USA. It's an awesome book, but I am concerned about the political point of labeling the main characters exactly the way the US government did back then.Another one: Chinua Achebe's No Longer At Ease is NOT an immigrant story. I don't want to mess with the contributions if Jessica is still here and active, since she started it. But it should be recognized that not everyone who comes to the USA, UK, or other western countries prefers to live in the USA or other parts of the West, and in the case of Achebe's protagonist, he goes to England, gets his education, leaves to go back to Nigeria. Thousands if not more do this very thing every year. A person who lives in the UK,US or elsewhere for a limited time, and with a limited purpose, is not an immigrant, they are a visitor. This touches a personal chord for me, because I am married to a citizen of another country who lives in the USA, and well-intended people are constantly trying to hyphenate my spouse with "-American", and repeatedly we have to say, "Actually, no." There is a bias to the assumption that whoever sets foot on these golden shores must SURELY want to stay here forever.
Removed for not being about the immigrant experience/author spamming:The Girls on Rose Hill
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
The Farther I Walk, the Closer I Get to Me b. Hong Mei
Hm. Bless Me, Ultima is on here, but it's most certainly not about immigrants or even immigration. Do people just assume that because it's about Spanish-speakers in New Mexico they immigrated there? They were there before it became part of the US...
Wow, there are sooo many books on this list that just do not belong by any stretch of the imagination. O.o
I understand why there are so many votes for Roots, but "immigrant" isn't the right descriptor there.
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