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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, Polly, an undocumented Chinese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon -- and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left mystified and bereft. Eventually adopted by a pair of well-meaning white professors, Deming is moved from the Bronx to a small town upstate and renamed Daniel Wilkinson. But far from all he's ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love"--
3) Samba
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
An undocumented kitchen worker battles deportation from his adopted home in Paris.
4) The visitor
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walter Vale is a widower who teaches economics at a Connecticut university. He lives alone and is no longer motivated by his work. In New York to present a paper at a conference, he goes to the apartment that he has not visited in some time, but has kept since his wife was alive, only to discover a young couple living there. Despite their great cultural differences, Walter befriends Tarek, a Syrian citizen and drummer, and gradually builds a friendship...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear -- both here and back home.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Through extensive ethnographic study of the aftermath of an ICE raid in one Latino community in Michigan, the author details the incredible strain that it placed on the community, the families, and the individuals left behind. Lopez's case study reveals the public health impacts of ICE raids on stable immigrant communities in the heartland of the country"--
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Wonderbook (31 pages) : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Description
When his mother is sent back to Mexico for not having the proper immigration papers, Jos©♭ and his father travel from San Diego, California, to visit her in Tijuana.
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