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Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of Western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial thought has developed to engage with the impact of sometimes centuries of Western political and cultural domination.

Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent, but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch-doctors. From the backrooms of its mosques, Tube tunnels and nightclubs to the frontlines of its streets, Judah has supped with oligarchs and spent nights sleeping rough, worked on building sites and talked business with prostitutes; he's heard stories of heartbreaking failure, but also witnessed extraordinary acts of compassion.

Most Holocaust survivors who came to the US after WWII settled in big cities, but some chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle this chapter in American Jewish history when these refugees—including the author's grandparents—found an unlikely gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms.

Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were either runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many of them left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages-traumatic "middle passages"—only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and sexual exploitation. Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next-that is at once a search for one's roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York.

Erfolgreich in Deutschland – Wie du wirklich ankommst in Job & AlltagDieses Buch ist mehr als ein Ratgeber – es ist dein persönlicher Kompass für ein erfülltes Leben in deiner neuen Heimat. Für alle, die mehr wollen als nur „irgendwie zurechtkommen“. Es hilft dir, die unausgesprochenen Regeln der deutschen Arbeitswelt zu verstehen, kulturelle Missverständnisse zu vermeiden und mit neuem Selbstvertrauen durchs Leben zu gehen. Ob im Büro, beim Bewerbungsgespräch oder im Supermarkt – du lernst, dich sicher zu bewegen, ohne dich selbst zu verlieren.

An urgent collection of essays by first- and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.

Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011 her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa's hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life.

From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.

The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Benny must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. Annuo, forced to flee with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the US in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America.

« ils naquirent libres et égaux » est un roman qui relate, avec talent et audace, un pan de la vie des étrangers en France. Certes, tous ne quittents pas leurs pays d'origine par plaisir, mais tous sont portés par un rêve : vivre « libres et égaux ». Un rêve qui tourne parfois au cauchemar, lorsqu'on se retrouve sans papiers, sans droits, sans defense, sans identité, sans dignité, et... « clandestins » comme Christine et les autres qui connaissent par cœur la préfecture de police, avec ses spéciaux « Guichet des étrangers », « Demandeurs d’asile », « Naturalisation », etc.

In Justice in America: A Broken Social Contract, Jeffery Jones takes listeners on a thought-provoking journey through the complex tapestry of American justice, offering a unique blend of historical insight and sociological perspective. This book is not just a call for understanding. It's an invitation to explore the multifaceted nature of justice in the United States without sacrificing your own point of view.

At the core of this debut collection is a question – what is worth holding onto? Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Ba's kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on Lee High Road.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “[T]he most famous undocumented immigrant in America”, tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.

In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. By sheer chance, they land in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, a small town where the Trans struggle to assimilate into their new life. In this coming-of-age memoir told through the themes of great books such as The Metamorphosis, The Scarlet Letter, The Iliad, and more, Tran navigates the push and pull of finding and accepting himself despite the challenges of immigration, feelings of isolation, and teenage rebellion.

Born in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil war stoked by American foreign policy. Foreign correspondent William Wheeler tracks MS-13 from LA, where he meets the founders of the gang, to El Salvador, where three generations of Salvadorans have been drawn into an escalating cycle of conflict. State of War tells the tragic story of a brutal civil war that has never ended.

"Erste Schritte in Deutschland – Anleitung zum Glück, Erfolg und Erfüllung. Die ersten Schritte in einem neuen Land können ohne Orientierung überwältigend wirken. Fühlst du dich unsicher, alleine oder unverstanden? In diesem praktischen Ratgeber erhältst du wertvolle Tipps und Ideen, die dir helfen, deinen Weg zu Erfolg, Glück und Erfüllung in Deutschland zu erleichtern. Mit klaren Handlungsanweisungen und praktischen Beispielen wird der Einstieg in dein neues Leben deutlich einfacher.

Are you preparing for the US Citizenship Test? Feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information you need to learn? This comprehensive audiobook is your ultimate companion for acing the citizenship exam!

President Biden and his Administration have weaponized illegal immigration to fundamentally transform the United States of America. The intentional act of opening the borders of the United States of America is Treason. In this book, the evidence of this treason will be presented, as it would be by a federal agent, as a criminal case to an Assistant United States Attorney. Detailed evidence will be provided describing what the manifestation of this crime has wrought American cities and towns.

Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Harsha Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist nationalist rule.