People immigrate to the United States for many reasons. Why do they decide to come? How do they travel? What happens when they arrive? Data is in the details as you discover the history of immigration to the United States! This nonfiction math reader builds literacy skills and math content knowledge, combining informational text, problem-solving, and real-world connections to help students explore math in a meaningful way. The Let's Explore Math sidebars...

Immigrants help make the United States a special place. Learn all about the history of immigration to the United States as you sharpen your data measurement skills! This Spanish math book seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach math concepts. Text features include images, a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to build students' vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they...

Sin imaginarlo otra vida comenzaba para nosotros como para otros miles o millones de cubanos comenzaba la dispora a esparcirse por el mundo buscando lo ms elemental para vivir, un trabajo, un pan, un alero. Igual que cuando salimos de Cuba no tena idea de lo que estaba pasando cumpla con mis responsabilidades sacaba los grados de la escuela viva como cualquiera otra hija de vecina, algunas veces iba al cine hoy Teatro Trial o con las compaeras de...

Canada is one of the world's most welcoming countries, a relatively new land built by immigration with some of the top cities in which to live. But how do you turn your dreams abroad into reality in Canada? This book, part of the Canadian Newcomers series, gives you the critical advantage in understanding how to prepare to come to Canada. It shows you how to navigate the government maze and how to ensure your paperwork is in order. And it provides...

Extensive immigration restrictions are an attempt by the U.S. government to centrally manage the demographics, labor market, and culture of the United States instead of letting those facets of our society develop naturally--as they have throughout most of history. Many objections have been raised against a return to America's traditional free-immigration policy, but they are without merit and ignore immigration's tremendous benefits. In this Broadside,...

In Making America Great: The Immigrant Experience, former Jamaican athlete and now naturalized U.S. citizen Sekou M. Clarke shares his unique experience navigating America as an immigrant and as an immigration attorney. His life is a representation of the American Dream, and his book breathes life into the real experiences of immigrants today and throughout U.S. history. Sekou believes it is impossible to tell the American story without stories of...

La barbarie que persiste y prolifera en numerosas zonas del planeta afianza a los conflictos armados como la principal causa de migraciones forzosas en todo el mundo. Asistimos, al propio tiempo, a la progresiva afirmación real del cambio climático que tiende a convertirse en la más preponderante fuerza inductora de desplazamientos humanos, al actuar cual factor amplificador sobre aquellos y otros elementos de vulnerabilidad socioeconómica. Item...

What is it like to travel to Europe over land and sea in order to secure a future for yourself and your family? Why are so many people willing to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean? What are their hopes and fears? And why is Europe, one of the richest regions of the world, unable to cope? Drawing on compelling first-hand accounts from 500 people who arrived on the shores of Europe in 2015, this important new book unpacks their routes, experiences...

International migration is a life-changing process, but do the migrants and their families fare economically better than those who stayed behind? Drawing on the largest database available on labour migration to Europe, this book seeks to shed light upon this question through an exploration of poverty outcomes for three generations of settler migrants spanning multiple European destinations, as compared with their returnee and stayer counterparts living...

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas, separatist movements, and threats of terrorism. With Europe now a destination for global immigration, European countries are increasingly alert to...