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Prior to the working on the book, Bush met all of the immigrants whose stories are covered in the book. [1] In creating the book, Bush stated "My hope is that Out of Many, One will help focus our collective attention on the positive effects that immigrants have on our country." [2] Out of Many, One quickly became a New York Times bestseller. [2]
Pages in category "Non-fiction books about immigration to the United States" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
"Dreamers" is known as an executive order [4] on immigration, but is explained by Morales as being less political and more descriptive of her and her son: "Kelly and I were Dreamers in the sense that all immigrants, regardless of our status, are Dreamers: we enter a new country carried by hopes and dreams, and carrying our own special gifts, to ...
A Nation of Immigrants (ISBN 978-0-06-144754-9) is a 1958 book on American immigration by then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.. The name of the book is a reference to the fact that the United States is a country whose population is predominantly made up of immigrants and their recent descendants, who settled the country following the European colonization of the Americas and the ...
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World (titled Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century for its UK release) is a 2013 book by the development economist Paul Collier about the way migration affects migrants as well as the countries that send and receive the migrants, and the implications this has for development economics and the quest to end poverty.
The book sets out to discuss themes including free speech and cancel culture through the perspective of a non-Western immigrant. [4] It particularly addresses why the West has a negative view of itself, and why that is self-destructive. [5] One of the themes of the book is the history of slavery and the way it is taught in American schools.
Novels about immigration to the United States (32 P) Pages in category "Books about immigration to the United States" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The powerful mother is a common pivotal figure in immigrant fiction, just as the sensitive child, torn between this matriarchal authority and a weaker, less adaptive father, often assumes the book's central consciousness. Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), fits the pattern, with its tense mother-daughter duo, Silla and Selina ...