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Do you live between two languages or two cultures? Your experience is more than cultural—it’s neurological. Bicultural Brain reveals how bilingual and bicultural individuals develop unique cognitive strengths that shape emotions, identity, decision-making, and creativity. Grounded in cultural psychology, neurolinguistics, and emotion science, this book explains in clear, accessible language how the bicultural brain works as a flexible and adaptive system. It uncovers why switching between languages changes how you feel, think, and respond to the world—and how this neurocognitive ...

Borderline Chaos: The Collapse of Sovereignty at the Southern Border By Thornton D. Barnes A nation without borders is a nation in decline. This is the true story of how America’s southern frontier fell—and who made it happen. From the abandonment of Trump-era policies to the rise of cartel dominance, Borderline Chaos delivers an unflinching exposé of the people, programs, and ideologies that dismantled U.S. border security from within. Drawing on leaked documents, frontline testimony, and investigative reporting, Thornton D. Barnes connects the dots between progressive sanctuary ...

Africa’s Generation Z Says to the World: Enough Is Enough Africa’s Generation Z is the loudest, boldest, and most connected generation in the continent’s history. They are digital natives armed with smartphones, Wi-Fi, and unstoppable conviction. They are children of independence and the internet age—fluent in hashtags and history, in memes and manifestos. And their message to the world is clear: Enough is enough. In this groundbreaking book, historian and social reformer Yemi Adesina shines a light on the voices, struggles, and triumphs of Africa’s youth as they rise to confront ...

An eye-opening examination into a chilling paradox: our hunger for security—from border walls to video doorbells—is making us less safe and weakening democracies worldwide, for readers of Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff How much are you willing to give up to feel safe? Ruben Andersson argues...

His parents, village, and Panama Canal Zone events prepared him. Above and beyond his tribulations, this Afro-Latino Caribbean man did not allow racism to stop his smile, resolve, or journey forward. Walk with him through his eyes.

In the end, it was the American Dream that defeated Vladimir Putin. The allure of freedom and opportunity was far more compelling than economic stagnation, totalitarian repression, and the dread of being sent into a ‘meat wave’ assault in Russia’s next war of aggression. It caused people to leave Russia in droves. Mostly they were young, educated people eager for a better life. Many just wanted a safe place to raise a family. First a million. Then two million. Then many more. Nearly 15 million in total over the years. America welcomed them with open arms. The scenario above is fiction...

The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of Caribbean migrants in the UK, was the initial step in the...

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Good Immigrant, read by the authors. How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of...

Discover the Untold Stories that Shape the American Identity, even if you've relied solely on textbooks before. Many Americans want to deepen their understanding of national identity beyond the pages of standard history books. They seek to uncover the vast, multi-cultural stories that form the backbone of of our nations story. "American History: The Immigrants All Who Came to the New World America" is tailor-made for those who seek a comprehensive, inclusive exploration of America's rich immigrant legacy.

Kein anderes Thema hat die europäische Politik in den letzten Jahren so beeinflusst wie die Debatte um Geflüchtete, Asyl und Migration. Dabei wird die Diskussion dominiert von Schlagworten, falschen Tatsachenbehauptungen und Scheinlösungen. Gerald Knaus erklärt in seinem Buch, worum es tatsächlich geht, und zeigt, dass humane Grenzen möglich sind. Der Migrationsexperte, dessen Analysen Regierungen in ganz Europa beeinflusst haben, erläutert, welche Grundsatzprobleme wir dafür lösen müssten und wie aus abstrakten Prinzipien mehrheitsfähige umsetzbare Politik werden kann.

Born to a wealthy family in northern Sri Lanka, Logathasan Tharmathurai and his family lost everything during the long and brutal Sri Lankan Civil War. In January 1985, at the age of 18, he left his home in a desperate bid to build a new life for himself and his family abroad after a deeply traumatic encounter with a group of Sinhalese soldiers.

As a boy growing up on a small farm in County Cavan, Michael McGovern never imagined that his life would take him deep beneath the streets of London. But like thousands of young Irish emigrants, he left home in the 1950s with little more than a cardboard suitcase and hope for something better. In London, Michael became one of the Tunnel Tigers — the fearless Irish labourers whose back-breaking work built the city’s underground tunnels. Facing danger, hardship and exile, he forged a new life while raising a young family in England. Years later, with his wife and children, he returned to ...

Tracing the survival strategies of migrants during the journey to the North, The Migrant Passage shows how their mobility reshapes the social landscape of Mexico, and the book explores the implications for the future of sovereignty and the nation-state. To trace the continuous renewal of the transit corridor, Noelle Brigden draws upon over two years of in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork along human smuggling routes from Central America across Mexico and into the United States.

In The Great Great Wall, architectural historian and critic Ian Volner takes a deep dive into the story of Donald Trump’s wall. Volner follows the conception, selling, design, and construction (or lack thereof) of this expensive and consequential barrier, giving listeners a detailed description of what’s happening in Washington, DC - and along the border. He also travels far afield, to China, the Middle East, northern England, and back to our border to examine the barriers we’ve been building for centuries.

Stories of hope, love and compassion from a bygone era of Singapore's historyLittle Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past is a compilation of biographies based on historical fact about the pain of separation and the lure of love, and how these themes constantly collide. These...

In Burden of Conscience, the fourth novel in the Collingwood Series, Winson's life is in a tranquil period. However, his family in China is faced with strife, hardship, and a bleak future. Yearning to be reunited with them, Winson is faced with choices that will complicate and endanger the lives of everyone he loves. His mother made him promise not to look back at his life in Hangzhou because his future would be in Canada. But, if he keeps that promise, will his family survive? Conscience is the voice and mirror of our soul. Will a time come when Winson must choose an uncertain direction ...

Logra Tu Sueño Americano: 8 Caminos Probados para Iniciar tu Negocio y Obtener una Visa para EE. UU. ¿Y si lo único que te separa de tu Sueño Americano es contar con el plan adecuado? Por primera vez, el estratega de inmigración y negocios Patrick Findaro—socio fundador de Visa Franchise y autor del bestseller Cómo Comprar una Franquicia—revela los ocho caminos que ya han llevado a miles de familias, emprendedores e inversionistas a Estados Unidos más rápido, con mayor seguridad y con menos dinero del que imaginaban. Lo que descubrirás en estas páginas Elige la visa que mejor ...

A brief look at the background of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the relation of race and class in the American labor movement.

En su debut, Miriam Casco Benard y sus hermanos emergen como sobrevivientes, relatando sus extraordinarias experiencias en sus recuerdos Tender Memories of Fire and Dust: Earthquakes, Revolution, and Family. Esta no es solo una historia de supervivencia, es una narrativa que palpita con la intensidad de superar el catastrófico terremoto de 1972 que asoló Nicaragua, navegar por el peligroso derrocamiento del gobierno por parte de los sandinistas y el arduo proceso de reconstruir una nueva vida en Estados Unidos.

The number of legal immigrants allowed into the United States in the 1960s was 300,000 a year. This increased reasonably to 600,000 by the 1980s. But in the 1990s, the rate accelerated to an average of more than a million a year. When the number of illegal immigrants is added to this, the total inflow during the 1990s was approximately twelve million.