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Conley Ellen Alexander |
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The chosen shore : stories of immigrants / / Ellen Alexander Conley |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 |
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©2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-93746-5 |
1-59734-536-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Immigrants - United States |
United States Emigration and immigration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments; Foreword; PART ONE: Hyphenated Americans; PART TWO: Postcards from America; PART THREE: Charred Portraits: america post-9/11 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics. |
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