immigration and emigration

Discussing the types of globalization, how and why it occurs, and its effect on people.

This volume examines the various service-learning projects available to those who wish to positively impact immigrant and migrant communities.

A ten-year-old boy, whose mother left him in Mexico in order to create a better life for them in the United States, sets out to find her after the death of his grandmother.

Evan, the nephew of a conservative southern senator, and Alma, who lives with her large, warm Mexican family, fall in love, but when Immigration and Customs Enforcement begins raids on their town, Alma knows she needs to tell Evan her secrets, but how can she tell her country-club boyfriend that she is an undocumented immigrant?.

In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.

A collection of stories about young Latino's immigrant experiences in the United States.

A collection of essays about people who have attempted to illegally cross borders. Includes information about fifteen-hundred people who have died, four-thousand people who have been deported, and more than two million people imprisoned for trying to cross borders world-wide in 2011.

Introduces children to several immigrant grandparents and the countries they originally came from.

In 1945, when young Thomas, his mother, and his new baby brother leave war-torn England to join his stepfather, an American soldier named Jack, in Chicago, Thomas finds a way to give courage to a fellow traveler on the Queen Mary. Includes historical note about war brides.