How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
It began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel-in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship drew together a changing world and its people in an extraordinary age of rising empires, sweeping economic transformation, and social change. This ......
Snowy: The Making of Modern Australia celebrates one of the most dramatic and inspiring episodes of modern Australian history. It is a tribute, more than 60 years on, to the vision behind the Scheme, the expertise of its designers, its ongoing modernisation, and the tens of thousands of workers who made it possible.
Personal Stories of Resisting Racism and Reclaiming Identity
Despite the UKs long history of racial injustice, people from minoritised groups have fought back, engaging in advocacy, activism, and every-day acts of resistance to create positive change.
This anthology is a prize-winning collection of these stories, spanning generations, cultures, and communities. They tell of subtle everyday acts of ......
A Chronicle of Life, Death, and Community at the Border
Learn the human stories of what happens at the border. A remarkable, decimating work of reporting by award-winning journalist and priest Cristina Rathbone about asylum seekers trapped at a port of entry to the US: the trauma they carry, the community they create, and the faith they maintain. The Asylum Seekers offers a rare narrative account ......
Chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids—and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.
Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up hundreds of people in a single day. These ......
Provides a framework to guide mental health providers who work with refugees and immigrants. The authors describe the unique needs and challenges of serving these populations, and offer concrete steps for providing evidence-based, culturally-responsive care.
A compassionate examination of a topic of urgent concern in US education In Sanctuary School, Chandler Patton Miranda highlights the many ways that K- 2 schools can provide safe educational spaces and relevant, responsive resources for immigrant students. Miranda prompts educators to think beyond the baseline definition of sanctuary schools as ......
Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions
Uses the latest psychological science to report on the immigration experience globally, critically address the challenges and provide potential solutions to contemporary immigration.
Immigration, Emigration and Migration consists of essays written by distinguished scholars across the fields of law, political science, and philosophy that examine questions of travel and migration across national borders. Questions of immigration and border enforcement practices are particularly salient in contemporary public discourse, and ......
