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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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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
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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 |
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