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

• Autore: Kessner Thomas
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1982
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 325.73
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration
• Soggetto geografico: United States Emigration and immigration History
• Altri autori: CaroliBetty Boyd
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Today's immigrants, their stories
• ISBN: 0-19-802039-2; 1-280-60517-0; 1-4237-3837-3; 1-60129-576-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824522903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II