A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home 9781948226790, 9781948226783

A Good Provider is One Who Leaves: On Family and Migration in the 21st Century 9781984877758

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Fictive Kinship : Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration 9781610448123, 9780871544940

Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of permanent residents or A

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Home Is Everywhere: The Unbelievably True Story of One Man’s Journey to Map America [Original retail ed.] 1633310329, 978-1633310322

As a young man living in rural Kansas in the 1940s, Charles Novak took a job with the federal government—not because he

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The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family 9781101206799, 2006037332, 1101206799

The First Cavalry Division came under surprise attack in Sadr City on April 4, 2004, now known as "Black Sunday.&qu

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One and only : why having an only child, and being one, is better than you think 9781451626957, 1451626959, 9781451626971

A humorous, tough-minded, and honest case for being and having an only child . Journalist Lauren Sandler is an only chil

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Forty-Five in the Family: The Story of a Home for Children 9780231882484

Written by the director of a home for children, this study looks at what goes on in a home giving residential care for f

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Regulating Low-Skilled Immigration in the United States : Income Tells Only a Small Part of the Story 9780844743714, 9780844743707

With 11.9 million undocumented residents in the United States and illegal entrants accounting for nearly half of the low

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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home 0802158277, 9780802158277

A sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-Am

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Is God the Only Reality : Science Points Deeper Meaning of Universe 9781599474144, 9780826406507

The great paradox of science in the twentieth century is that the more we learn, the less we seem to know. In this volum

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Cheerful Memories/Troubled Years: A Story of a Refusenik’s Family in Leningrad and its Struggle for Immigration to Israel 9781644690451

This book is the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the USSR to repatriate to Israel at the end of

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