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Autore |
Kessner Thomas |
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Titolo |
Today's immigrants, their stories : a new look at the newest Americans / / Thomas Kessner, Betty Boyd Caroli |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1982 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-802039-2 |
1-280-60517-0 |
1-4237-3837-3 |
1-60129-576-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Emigration and immigration |
United States Emigration and immigration History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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