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Author : Beryl Curreen
Publisher :
Release Date : 2015
ISBN : 9780473339838
Pages : 173 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (838 Download)
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Author : David Bouchier
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2004-06
ISBN : 9780595323128
Pages : 337 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (12 Download)
Download Free The Accidental Immigrant PDF by David Bouchier Full Book and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic humorist David Bouchier brings wit, wisdom and a touch of philosophy to the everyday dramas of American suburban life. This book brings together more than a hundred essays, originally broadcast on National Public Radio, or published in his Out of Order column in the Sunday New York Times. When work and marriage brought David Bouchier to Long Island in 1986 the endless suburbs seemed mysterious and exotic to him. He was inspired to begin writing essays and newspaper columns about his life there - a personal and public diary of the Resident Alien experience. In 1992 a weekly public radio essay was added to the newspaper columns, and thousands of listeners still enjoy David's weekly radio broadcasts. These are the affectionate and sometimes acerbic observations of an Accidental Immigrant, who still finds life in America endlessly stimulating and wonderfully strange. David Bouchier's thoughts about love, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the suburbs will make you smile, and make you think. Boring suburban rituals like lawn care mall shopping, wedding rehearsals, and barbecues will never seem the same again.
Author : Kyriacos C. Markides
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-04-28
ISBN : 0761872884
Pages : 179 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (872 Download)
Download Free The Accidental Immigrant PDF by Kyriacos C. Markides Full Book and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is Professor Markides’s capstone work. It addresses his valiant and often turbulent struggles and riveting adventures to adapt to American society within the bounds of contemporary hyper secular academia. The result is an intellectual and spiritual odyssey that can inspire any reader interested in addressing life’s perennial questions.
Author : Jerzy Glowczewski
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2007-11-05
ISBN : 1477163069
Pages : 452 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (163 Download)
Download Free The Accidental Immigrant PDF by Jerzy Glowczewski Full Book and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author Having spent nearly ten years writing my memoirs, originally in Polish, I hope that with this English edition they will reach a wider circle of readers. They span more than eighty years of turbulent world historyand when is such history not turbulent?--and include details which may not be familiar to many readers. Those acquainted with the epoch I am describing may wander, before picking up the book, whether it is yet another retelling of an often described drama, the subject already of myriad historical classics. I would say, yes, but it is a retelling with a twist. This book is, above all, a tale of exceptional good fortune, which, in contrast to the experiences of many others of my generation, has been my oddly lucky lot. I have lived on the edge of a precipice, yet have somehow managed to miss the worst fate. I have been steps away from death, a refugee fleeing deportation, starvation, and death camps. While fighting on two fronts during World War II, I had been shot at innumerable times; while in combat, I have without a doubt caused the death of others. After the wars end, living under a Soviet-imposed communist regime, I was spared torture and prison. And I did not choose emigration, but circumstances forced meand my wife and daughterto accept it. Luckily, we found ourselves in Americaland of promise. Ironically, however, we arrived here during a difficult period of social upheaval and racial unrest. Political conflict, assassinations, bombings, and the tragedy of an interventionist war in Indochina formed the backdrop of our new life in our adopted country. Later, working in the Middle East, I witnessed the early seeds of the conflict that now besieges us all. Looking back, I can hardly believe that through it all my luck held out, and that I was able to write my memoirs in the peace and quiet of my own home. And I trust that you will enjoy reading them--the story of an incorrigible optimist.
Author : Rinku Sen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2009-02-18
ISBN : 1442963514
Pages : 486 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (963 Download)
Download Free The Accidental American PDF by Rinku Sen Full Book and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rinku Sen
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date : 2008-09-08
ISBN : 1609943082
Pages : 259 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (943 Download)
Download Free The Accidental American PDF by Rinku Sen Full Book and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With one immigrant’s story, two authors analyze America’s immigration system and suggest better, more human policies. The Accidental American calls for a bold new approach to immigration: a free international flow of labor to match globalization’s free flow of capital. After all, corporations are encouraged to move anywhere in the world they can maximize their earnings. People shouldn’t have to risk exploitation, abuse, and even imprisonment when they try to do the same. Activist, journalist, and immigration expert Rinku Sen and organizer Fekkak Mamdouh examine the consequences of this injustice through Mamdouh’s own story. Born in Morocco, he was a waiter and union leader at Windows on the World, a restaurant in the World Trade Center. In the aftermath of September 11th, facing a rising tide of anti-immigrant bias, Mamdouh and others formed the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York (ROC-NY) to help their colleagues fight for decent jobs and fair treatment. ROC-NY was able to unite native-born and immigrant workers, helping each group realize they were involved in a common struggle for better working conditions. The organization has since expanded nationwide. Since 9/11, immigrants have increasingly been treated as presumptive criminals. As a counterpoint to these regressive, fundamentally un-American practices, the authors forcefully advocate more humane policies that would ease rather than restrict people’s movements, coupled with proposals for reforming globalization so that both sending and receiving countries can more equitably benefit from a more mobile international labor force. Immigrants enthusiastically contribute much more to our country than their labor. They ought to be welcomed, not marginalized. Citizenship should ultimately be determined by how willing people are to become a part of the social, civic, and political fabric of the country they live in, not by an accident of birth. “The Accidental American gives us the context, story and analysis we need for a just immigration policy. It is a must-read.” —Danny Glover, actor and activist “If you have ever had to struggle as an outsider or a newcomer (and all of us have), this book will touch your heart. It is a poignant story that points the way forward for us all.” —Van Jones, President and Founder, Green for All, and author of The Green Collar Economy “This book vividly highlights a seldom-mentioned side of recent immigrants’ experience: their willingness to struggle for better working conditions for workers of all ethnicities in their adopted nation.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, and Dancing in the Streets
Author : Alison Peck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-05-10
ISBN : 0520389662
Pages : 239 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (389 Download)
Download Free The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts PDF by Alison Peck Full Book and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Despite public concern with the increasing politicization of U.S. immigration courts, few people are aware of the system's fundamental flaw: the immigration courts are not really 'courts' but an office of the Department of Justice--the nation's law enforcement agency. Alison Peck's original and surprising account shows how paranoia sparked by World War II and the War on Terror drove the structure of the immigration courts. Focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Roosevelt and Bush administrations, this book divulges both the human tragedy of our current immigration system and the human crises that led to its creation. Peck provides an accessible legal analysis of recent events to make the case for independent immigration courts, proposing that the courts be moved into an independent, Article I court system. As long as the immigration courts remain under the authority of the attorney general, the administration of immigration justice will remain a game of political football--with people's very lives on the line." -- back cover.
Author : David Bouchier
Publisher : iUniverse
Release Date : 2004-06-24
ISBN : 1469743302
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (743 Download)
Download Free The Accidental Immigrant PDF by David Bouchier Full Book and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic humorist David Bouchier brings wit, wisdom and a touch of philosophy to the everyday dramas of American suburban life. This book brings together more than a hundred essays, originally broadcast on National Public Radio, or published in his Out of Order column in the Sunday New York Times. When work and marriage brought David Bouchier to Long Island in 1986 the endless suburbs seemed mysterious and exotic to him. He was inspired to begin writing essays and newspaper columns about his life there - a personal and public diary of the Resident Alien experience. In 1992 a weekly public radio essay was added to the newspaper columns, and thousands of listeners still enjoy David's weekly radio broadcasts. These are the affectionate and sometimes acerbic observations of an Accidental Immigrant, who still finds life in America endlessly stimulating and wonderfully strange. David Bouchier's thoughts about love, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the suburbs will make you smile, and make you think. Boring suburban rituals like lawn care mall shopping, wedding rehearsals, and barbecues will never seem the same again.
Author : Zia E Ahari
Publisher :
Release Date : 2020-02-29
ISBN : 9781712224137
Pages : 366 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (131 Download)
Download Free Accidental Immigrant PDF by Zia E Ahari Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zia Ahari is a retired orthopedic surgeon. He was born to a landowner family in the town of Ahar in Iran. He received his education in Iran followed by specialist training in the UK. He has lived an adventurous life and has survived a world war, two revolutions, and extinction of a 2,500-year-old Monarchy. He has worked and lived in three different continents and sailed over two oceans, one of them single-handed. He has been through several critical, life-threatening situations and here he tells the story of his adventurous life. In his first book, he describes his single-handed sailing adventure on a small sailing boat from Sweden to the United States. Telling the story of his life a sailor friend asked him to write the narrative. The friend threatened to come and haunt him if he did not read the book in his lifetime. The book is full of various adventures written as truthfully as possible. Zia is a competent horseman, an all-round skier, and an experienced blue water sailor. He speaks four languages fluently. Has proved to be a successful immigrant. Earlier in his life, as well as in his old age, he has never shied away from accepting voluntary assignments. Since he has immigrated to America, he has been elected to the prestigious sailing club, the Cruising Club of America. In the CCA, he has served as a member of the Board of Governors, head of the San Francisco Station of the CCA . He also has served as a member of the Board of Governors of Bunnel Cove Foundation: a charity organization dedicated to the environment of the oceans and propagation and preservation of Sailing. Zia, with his wife Farideh and there girl "Athesa" live in San Rafael, California.
Author : Paul H. Elovitz
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1997
ISBN : 9780838636916
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (918 Download)
Download Free Immigrant Experiences PDF by Paul H. Elovitz Full Book and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives powerful testimony to the possibilities of success, even as it attests to the psychological costs of emigration and the struggles of immigration. The necessity of creating a new cultural or national identity is a recurring theme as the authors of articles - immigrants themselves and Americans sensitive to their families' immigrant experiences - address what has become an urgent question: How can we facilitate the immigrants' passage? The U.S. culture has been forged by the influence of immigrant cultures too numerous to mention; their representatives have made recognizable, significant contributions while struggling to create a viable place for themselves in their adopted land.
Author : Carol E. Kelley
Publisher : Temple University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-25
ISBN : 9781439909454
Pages : 189 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (458 Download)
Download Free Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home PDF by Carol E. Kelley Full Book and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effect of immigration on individual lives is not short lived. Those who stay in an adopted country permanently go through a continual process of adjustment and learning both about their new country-and about themselves. The four women profiled in Carol Kelley's poignant Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home challenge immigrant stereotypes as their lives are transformed by moving to new countries for reasons of marriage, education, or career--not economics or politics. The intimate stories of these "accidental" immigrants broaden conventional notions of home. From a Maori woman who moves to Norway to the daughter of an Iranian diplomat now living in France, Kelley weaves together these stories of the personal and emotional effects of immigration with interdisciplinary discussions drawn from anthropology and psychology. Ultimately, she reveals how the lifelong process of immigration affects each woman's sense of identity and belonging and contributes to better understanding today's globalized society.
Author : Andrew Sherwood
Publisher :
Release Date : 2022-07-14
ISBN :
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (441 Download)
Download Free An Accidental Immigrant PDF by Andrew Sherwood Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the author's unintended immigration to America. After arriving in the USA, he spent thirty years traveling the globe for a new scientific employer before finally settling down with the love of his life to enjoy a happy and peaceful retirement. Despite an almost total lack of scientific education, he was fascinated by the science and scientists he became involved with, as well as by the sometimes strange and exotic places he found them in. His childhood dream was to travel the world and he certainly did that. If there is a moral to the story, it is simply this: never give up!
Author : Rinku Sen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2009-02-18
ISBN : 1442963484
Pages : 466 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (963 Download)
Download Free The Accidental American PDF by Rinku Sen Full Book and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of modern immigration through the life of Fekkak Mamdouh, an ordinary, if somewhat fortunate, immigrant who found himself at the center of historic events. Situations like his have given rise to a contentious debate across the United States about immigration and the purpose of contemporary policy. Politicians, media pun...
Author : Roy Howard Beck
Publisher : Roy Beck
Release Date : 1996
ISBN : 0393039153
Pages : 362 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (39 Download)
Download Free The Case Against Immigration PDF by Roy Howard Beck Full Book and published by Roy Beck. This book was released on 1996 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beck's book redefines a flashpoint issue for America's future and for the 1996 elections, showing how current high immigration--far beyond traditional levels--benefits mainly the rich, and why immigration rates must be drastically lowered to ensure that America remains a society of opportunity for all its citizens, including recent immigrants.
Author : Peter Nyers
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-14
ISBN : 0429809875
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (89 Download)
Download Free Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation PDF by Peter Nyers Full Book and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deportation has again taken a prominent place within the immigration policies of nation-states. Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation addresses the social responses to deportation, in particular the growing movements against deportation and detention, and for freedom of movement and the regularization of status. The book brings deportation and anti-deportation together with the aim of understanding the political subjects that emerge in this contested field of governance and control, freedom and struggle. However, rather than focusing on the typical subjects of removal – refugees, the undocumented, and irregular migrants – Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation looks at the ways that citizens get caught up in the deportation apparatus and must struggle to remain in or return to their country of citizenship. The transformation of ‘regular’ citizens into deportable ‘irregular’ citizens involves the removal of the rights, duties, and obligations of citizenship. This includes unmaking citizenship through official revocation or denationalization, as well as through informal, extra-legal, and unofficial means. The book features stories about struggles over removal and return, deportation and repatriation, rescue and abandonment. The book features eleven ‘acts of citizenship’ that occur in the context of deportation and anti-deportation, arguing that these struggles for rights, recognition, and return are fundamentally struggles over political subjectivity – of citizenship. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of citizenship, migration and security studies.
Author : John Ewan
Publisher :
Release Date : 2017
ISBN : 9780473396596
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (599 Download)
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Author : Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Release Date : 2014
ISBN : 3847102729
Pages : 170 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (12 Download)
Download Free Immigration and Integration in North America PDF by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz Full Book and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2014 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: The volume comprises nine essays by prominent Canadianists from Austria, Germany and Canada who investigate in comparative fashion the problems of emigration / immigration to and integration in North America and some European countries, especially Austria and France. They inquire how this challenge has been met in Canada since the official adoption of multiculturalism and reflect on the possibility of Canada serving as a model for Europe. While contemporary novels by immigrants to Canada provide evidence of successful integration, ethnic autobiographies remind us of the existence of problems and prejudices in former times. The tensions experienced in the course of a transcultural transfer are shown to be a potential source of inspiration, with authors of Caribbean background providing fruitful examples. The waves of immigration from Austria are also described as is the specific approach to the challenge of immigration in the province of Quebec, through the adoption of the concept of interculturalism. Both the problems linked to immigration in France and the issue of the millions of undocumented immigrants from Latin America in the USA are considered. German description: Der deutsch- und englischsprachige Band enthalt neun Essays von bekannten KanadistInnen aus Osterreich, Deutschland und Kanada, die sich mit Immigration nach und Integration in Nordamerika beschaftigen: Wie wird dieses aktuelle Problem in Kanada bewaltigt? Konnte das offiziell multikulturelle Kanada fur Lander wie Osterreich und Frankreich ein Muster sein? Neben der gelungenen Integration, die sich in Romanen von selbst nach Kanada eingewanderten ErzahlerInnen spiegelt, belegen ethnische Autobiographien die fruher auch in Kanada haufigen Probleme. Das Spannungsverhaltnis beim transkulturellen Ubergang erscheint als mogliche Inspirationsquelle, wobei Schriftsteller aus der Karibik ergiebige Untersuchungsobjekte sind. Die Einwanderung aus Osterreich kommt ebenso zur Sprache wie die spezifische Auseinandersetzung mit der Immigration in Quebec, wo das Konzept des Interkulturalismus dominiert, sowie das Schicksal von Millionen illegaler Einwanderer in den USA.
