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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824522903321

Autore

Kessner Thomas

Titolo

Today's immigrants, their stories : a new look at the newest Americans / / Thomas Kessner, Betty Boyd Caroli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1982

ISBN

0-19-802039-2

1-280-60517-0

1-4237-3837-3

1-60129-576-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

CaroliBetty Boyd

Disciplina

325.73

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

United States Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Reopening the Doors -- 1. I Get Homesick Every Day: Refugees from Indochina -- 2. Don't Have My Papers Yet: Undocumented Aliens -- 3. Ten Years Is a Long Time: A Woman from Rural Peru -- 4. I Don't Know Where They Came From: Greengrocers, Doctors, and Other Koreans -- 5. Someplace Else If Not America: Irish Women's Journey -- 6. It's Good for the Important Things: To Leave Russia as a Jew -- 7. I Was Afraid But More I Was Hungry: Brooklyn's West Indians -- 8. I Didn't Choose America, I Chose New York: Varying Italian Perspectives -- 9. Separate But Friends: Chinatown's New Chinese -- 10. Their Children's Country: Modern Greek Odyssey -- 11. Dr. Martinez's Daughter: A Honduran in Manhattan -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

These are powerful and stirring tales about ordinary people who are surmounting extraordinary obstacles to gain access to a better life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.