Discusses how ethnic and religious differences, along with economic hardships, have led large numbers of Eastern Europeans to emigrate to other countries, and how they have adjusted.
Massimino emigrates from Italy to work in the coal mines of turn-of-the-century America and slowly saves enough silver to pay the passage of his fianc?e.
Discusses the history of emigration from Scotland, detailing accounts of the migrants' experiences and emphasizing their positive input to new countries.
A look at the lives of Russian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Swedish, and Irish immigrants who passed through Ellis Island around the turn of the twentieth century.
When political unrest in Honduras forces twelve-year-old Sara to flee with her family and make the dangerous journey north to Texas, she faces the challenges of starting a new school and a new life.
In 1917 twelve-year-old Birdie and her siblings, the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia, help their recently widowed mother run the family store, picking up where their father left off in his struggle to succeed in America.
the battle to save a friend from deportation and death
Flynn, Josephe Marie
2011
Regina Bakala escaped a Congo ruled by chaos and violence and settled in the United States. She worked with an immigration lawyer and then reunited with her husband who was also a Congolese torture survivor. They had two children and Regina was happy and full of hope. Then one night there was a knock on the door and immigration agents took Regina to prison so she could await her eventual deportation back to the Congo and certain death.
A spirited young girl does not want to leave her home in Norway to go to live in Minnesota, but aboard ship on the way to America, she proves why she is called "Lili the Brave.".
