immigrants

Examines what life is like for immigrants, discussing the problems they encounter and how they cope with them, and provides individual case studies.

A series of essays that express various perspectives on immigration such as strengthening laws against illegal entrance into the country.

Discusses immigrant life in New York focusing on crowded living conditions and early employment and accompanied by photographs.

Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to be a farmer during the Irish Potato Famine and to travel across the Atlantic Ocean onboard a ship to America.

Presents the life stories of fifty children who came to the United States before 1950 through Ellis Island in New York, and Angel Island in California, from throughout Europe, the Middle East, and China.

Dom, a nine-year old stowaway from Naples, Italy, arrives in New York and must learn to survive the perils of street life in the big city.

An upper-middle-class white girl from Long Island and an immigrant worker from Colombia fall in love despite objections from both their families and their community.

Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind.

When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.

Eleven young immigrants from Afghanistan, China, Vietnam, and other countries describe their lives since they moved to the United States.