Author: Kay Deaux
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation Publicatio
Keywords: immigrant
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 087154086X
ISBN-13: 9780871540867

Author: Extra
Publisher: Mulitlingual Matters
Keywords: eur, languages, immigrant
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 1992-11-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1853591793
ISBN-13: 9781853591792

The focus of this book is on immigrant groups and immigrant languages with a recent or earlier background of migration to industrialized countries in Western and Northern Europe. After presenting some basic concepts in the area of language and immigration, the book focuses on demographic statistics of immigrant groups in European Community countries and Scandinavia, and on research in the field of immigrant language varieties.

Author: Kurt Suter
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: immigrant
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $26.50
ISBN-10: 1412020050
ISBN-13: 9781412020053

An autobiography full of humour and laughter but also a great book about love, adventure, dreams, drama and even murder. A true love story.

Author: Abdelmalek Sayad
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: immigrant, suffering
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2004-04-02
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0745626432
ISBN-13: 9780745626437

This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the condition of the immigrant and it will transform the reader’s understanding of the issues surrounding immigration. Sayad’s book will be widely used in courses on race, ethnicity, immigration and identity in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, politics and geography.an outstanding and original work on the experience of immigration and the kind of suffering involved in living in a society and culture which is not one’s own; describes how immigrants are compelled, out of respect for themselves and the group that allowed th

Author: Michael Pupin
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: inventor, immigrant
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1602069522
ISBN-13: 9781602069527

Michael Pupin’s was a genuinely American story, the lifelong journey of a boy from rural Serbia, from a town so tiny it appeared on no maps, who became one of the greatest scientists of the early 20th century, changing the lives of people the world over with his technological innovations-he invented the therapeutic X-ray and made telephone communications practical and inexpensive-and helping to invent the modern world we know today. First published in 1922, Pupin’s autobiography won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924, but Pupin’s insightful and incisive words are their own greatest r

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: kids, immigrant
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1995-08-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0140375945
ISBN-13: 9780140375947

"A refreshingly un-woeful introduction to the experience of being a young urban immigrant around the turn of the century. . . . photos make the scenes real and recollections of immigrant childhoods give them a personal dimension . . . Concise, graphic, and designed in every respect to catch and hold the reader’s interest."--Kirkus Reviews. An ALA Notable Book; NCSS/CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.

Author: Cristina Igoa
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: child, immigrant, world, inner
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1995-05-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0805880135
ISBN-13: 9780805880137

This powerful book tells the story of one teacher’s odyssey to understand the inner world of immigrant children, and to create a learning environment that is responsive to these students’ feelings and their needs. Featuring the voices and artwork of many immigrant children, this text portrays the immigrant experience of uprooting, culture shock, and adjustment to a new world, and then describes cultural, academic, and psychological interventions that facilitate learning as immigrant students make the transition to a new language and culture.Particularly relevant for courses dealing