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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
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn to report the ... stories of her fellow undocumented Americans, ... [bringing] to light remarkable [tales] of hope and resilience [through which] we come to understand what it truly means to be American"--
3) Terraferma
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
A local community on a small island near Sicily struggles to deal with African immigrants that arrive on their island.
4) Papi chulo
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A TV weatherman, going through an emotional crisis over his recent breakup, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a migrant Latino laborer.
Publisher
Vanguard Cinema
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed over the course of ten days, this follows four men into the world of illegal border-crossing from Mexico to the United States. Guapo, Oso, Tigre, Viejo take the 120 mile cross-desert journey that has been traveled innumerable times by nameless immigrants who - like these four from Michoacan, Mexico - all had a simple dream for a better life. Fighting dehydration and exhaustion while evading the U.S. Border Patrol through sub-zero temperature...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cochise County, Arizona has only 130,000 residents, yet was the crossing point for more than 235,000 illegal immigrants in 2004. The movie documents the toll this takes on the local community, the environment and on the immigrants themselves.
8) Illegal
Series
Film Movement volume year 9, film 1
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on the street for a routine check by the police; Tania is arrested and placed in an immigration detention center for women, while Ivan manages to escape. Threatened with imminent deportation and fearful for Ivan's fate, Tania embarks on a harrowing journey, determined to preserve her dignity and find her son. Short film : Rita....
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2007, c1985
Physical Desc
410, 24 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his ill-fated pursuit of the American dream, Bob Dubois finds employment on a fishing boat off the Florida Keys where he becomes involved in a plot to smuggle two Haitians into Florida.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait. Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar's phone. AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message Cesar has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through? Over four...
Author
Language
English
Description
Richard Bowmaster — a 60-year-old human rights scholar — hits the car of Evelyn Ortega — a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala — in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz — a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile — for her advice....
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"--
Series
Criterion collection volume 922
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
Finnish
Description
A Syrian refugee in Helsinki illegally and a middle-aged Finnish salesman form an unlikely friendship when the salesman leaves his job and wife to buy a restaurant and offers the refugee a job.
14) 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.
15) Hard Row
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When another body is found, these newlyweds will discover dark truths that threaten to permanently alter the serenity of their rural surroundings and their new life together.
As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing...
As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing...
16) Sanctuary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tia Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows.
18) 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the explosive story of yuppies, Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher, a stay-at-home dad and his real-estate whiz wife, and their clash with Candida and America Rincon, illegal aliens who have crossed into California from Mexico and are living in a camp awaiting the birth of their baby.
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