Nonfiction Immigration

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    • Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
    • By: Zeke Hernandez
    • Narrated by: André Santana, Zeke Hernandez
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Wharton School professor Zeke Hernandez provides an accessible, apolitical, and evidence-based look at the effects of immigration on our local communities and our nation.

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,519 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
    • By: Sonia Shah
    • Narrated by: Sonia Shah
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
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    • A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting - predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Abdi Nor Iftin
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Abdi Nor Iftin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger....

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    • An American History
    • By: Carl J. Bon Tempo, Hasia R. Diner
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Li
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present....

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    • A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America
    • By: Achut Deng, Keely Hutton
    • Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up....

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    • Scotland's Global Diaspora 1750-2010
    • By: T.M. Devine
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women, and children sought their fortunes in every part of the globe, from the British Empire to the United States, in cities and on prairie farms....

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    • Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
    • By: Seth Stern
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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.

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    • The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers
    • By: Marcello Di Cintio
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi....

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    • A Scottish Prisoner's Journey to the New World
    • By: Carol Gardner
    • Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Involuntary American demonstrates how even indi­viduals of humble circumstances were swept into the mael­strom of the First Global Age.

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    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning author Kathleen Krull takes an in-depth historical look at immigration in America - with remarkable stories of some of the immigrants who helped build this country....

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    • Migration from the Global South Through the Americas
    • By: Andrew Nelson, Rob Curran
    • Narrated by: Zac Aleman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America, toward the United States....

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    • A Syrian Refugee Speaks Out
    • By: Muzoon Almellehan, Wendy Pearlman
    • Narrated by: Lara Sawalha
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
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    • This eye-opening memoir tells the story of a young girl's life in Syria, her family's wrenching decision to leave their home, and the upheaval of life in a refugee camp. Though her life had utterly changed, one thing remained the same....

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    • By: Floella Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Baroness Floella Benjamin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
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    • This is the incredible story of Floella's journey from Trinidad to London, as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords....

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    • By: Russell Freedman
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 39 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
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    • America meant "freedom" to the immigrants of the early 1900s - but a freedom very different from what they expected. Cities were crowded and jobs were scare. Children had to work selling newspapers, delivering goods, and laboring sweatshops....

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