1.
Series:
Who Gets In
An Immigration Story
Paperback
Norman Ravvin
9780889779228
$29.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 13, 2023
An eye-opening account of the Jewish immigration experience in the 1930s, and one man’s battle against anti-Semitic immigration policies. In 1930, a young Jewish man, Yehuda Yosef Eisenstein, arrived in Canada from Poland to escape persecution and the rise of Nazism in the hopes of starting a new life for himself and his family. Like countless others who made this journey from “non-preferred” countries, Eisenstein was only granted entry because he claimed to be single, starting his new life with a lie. He trusted that his wife and children woul...
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6.
Series:
Corner
Hardcover
Zo-O (pen name)
9781771475327
$21.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 7
Mar 15, 2023
A quirky and relatable story about balancing creativity and connection A crow finds itself in an empty corner and begins to make the space its own. First, it furnishes the corner with a bed, a bookshelf, a rug, even a potted plant. In the newly decorated space, the crow reads and eats, listens to music and waters the plant, but something’s missing. What is it? The crow decides to decorate more, drawing geometric patterns on the walls in yellow. The corner is filled with color and shapes, but something is still missing. The crow adds a window, a...
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9.
Series:
Journey without End
Migration from the Global South through the Americas
Paperback
Andrew Nelson
9780826504852
$33.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2022
Journey without End chronicles the years-long journey of "extracontinentales"—African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how state-level immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants.The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up...
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13.
Series:
Containing Diversity
Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century
Paperback
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
9781442609044
$68.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 06, 2022
Containing Diversity presents a novel approach to understanding the politics of immigration in Canada in the twenty-first century.Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among industrialized countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in the number of refugees and temporary migrant workers who are often denied citizenship and may also experience detention and deportation. Containing Diversity examines to what extent Canada’s long-standing support for immigration, ...
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15.
Series:
Exit Wounds
Paperback
Tariq Malik
9781773861005
$20.00
POETRY
Sep 16, 2022
What does it mean to feel at home? In his groundbreaking collection, Exit Wounds, Indo-Canadian poet Tariq Malik weaves together history and myth with his own family’s experiences of immigration to uncover what it truly means to belong. Whether he is recalling his childhood memories of the death of his father, imaging himself as a dead soldier lost in the sands of the Kuwaiti desert, or drawing upon his family’s experience of ‘three wars and migrations,’ Malik’s moving search for home will resonate with anyone who has ever felt at odds with a d...
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19.
Series: Studies in Immigration and Culture
Gifts from Amin
Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada
Paperback
Shezan Muhammedi
9780887552830
$27.95
HISTORY
Sep 02, 2022
In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to “Ugandan citizens.” Within ninety days, 50,000 Ugandans of South Asian descent were forced to leave and seek asylum elsewhere; nearly 8,000 resettled in Canada. This major migration event marked the first time Canada accepted a large group of predominantly Muslim, non-European, non-white refugees. Shezan Muhammedi’s Gifts from Amin documents how these women, children, and men—including doctors, engineers,...
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21.
Series:
Benefit Street
A Novel
Paperback
Adria Bernardi
9781573661973
$20.95
FICTION
Aug 01, 2022
A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imaginationFor nearly two decades, Siva has met after work on Tuesdays with four friends at a teahouse called the Kafiye. In interrupted conversations, the women explore what it is to live engaged lives inside and outside the home. Amidst joking and complaints, while drinking too much tea and eating too many sweets, they tell of their days: a son’s ninth birthday; the bruise on the arm of an...
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22.
Series:
Faces in the Crowd
The Jews of Canada
Paperback
Franklin Bialystok
9781442604414
$62.95
HISTORY
Jun 29, 2022
Faces in the Crowd is an exploration of the lives and contributions of Jews to Canada.The Jews were the first ethno-cultural minority to arrive in Canada, settling in Quebec in 1759. Their story is analogous to the experiences of subsequent immigrants as they arrived and settled into their new homes. Faces in the Crowd sheds light on the unique immigrant experience of the Jews in Canada by focusing on three processes: settlement, adaptation, and diversity. Drawing on case studies from the eighteenth century to the present day, Franklin Bialysto...
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24.
Series:
The Extraordinary Lives of Ukrainian-Canadian Women
Oral Histories of the Twentieth Century
Paperback
Iroida Wynnyckyj
9781894865654
$39.95
HISTORY
Jun 16, 2022
This book contains the life stories of ten Ukrainian-Canadian women who survived the turbulent events of twentieth-century Europe. The older women were shaped by their experiences during the First World War and the revolutionary years of 1917–21, while the younger ones were profoundly affected, if not traumatized, by the trials and tribulations of interwar Polish or Soviet rule, the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Western Ukraine during the Second World War, or their deportation and forced labour in the Third Reich. Some of the women were politi...
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35.
Series: Rethinking Canada in the World
The Racial Mosaic
A Pre-history of Canadian Multiculturalism
Paperback
Daniel R. Meister
9780228008712
$39.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 22, 2021
Canada is often considered a multicultural mosaic, welcoming to immigrants and encouraging of cultural diversity. Yet this reputation masks a more complex history. In this groundbreaking study of the pre-history of Canadian multiculturalism, Daniel Meister shows how the philosophy of cultural pluralism normalized racism and the entrenchment of whiteness.The Racial Mosaic demonstrates how early ideas about cultural diversity in Canada were founded upon, and coexisted with, settler colonialism and racism, despite the apparent tolerance of a varie...
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36.
Series:
Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced
Indian and Pakistani Transnational Households in Canada
Hardcover
Tania Das Gupta
9780774865661
$89.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Dec 01, 2021
Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced explores the lives of Gulf South Asians who arrived in Canada from India and Pakistan via Persian Gulf countries. Tania Das Gupta reveals the multiple migration patterns of this group, analyzing themes such as gender, racial, and religious discrimination; class mobility; the formation of transnational families; and identities in a post-9/11 context. This perceptive study demonstrates the effect of neoliberal labour markets and transnationalism on community building, diaspora, citizenship, and a sense of belonging...
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37.
Series:
Mass Capture
Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-citizens
Hardcover
Lily Cho
9780228008163
$39.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 15, 2021
Under the terms of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885, Canada implemented a vast protocol for acquiring detailed personal information about Chinese migrants. Among the bewildering array of state documents used in this effort were CI 9s: issued from 1885 to 1953, they included date of birth, place of residence, occupation, identifying marks, known associates, and, significantly, identification photographs. The originals were transferred to microfilm and destroyed in 1963; more than 41,000 grainy reproductions of CI 9s remain.Lily Cho explores h...
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48.
Series: Studies in Immigration and Culture
Being German Canadian
History, Memory, Generations
Paperback
Alexander Freund
9780887558474
$31.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 30, 2021
Being German Canadian explores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other’s integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants. As one of Canada’s largest ethnic groups, German Canadians allow for a variety of longitudinal and multi-generational studies that explore how different generations have negotiated and transmitted diverse individual experiences, collective memories, and national narratives. Drawing on rece...
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49.
Series:
The Doll
Hardcover
Nhung N. Tran-Davies
9781772601657
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 5 - 9
Apr 20, 2021
A young girl and her family arrive in an airport in a new country. They are refugees, migrants who have travelled across the world to find safety. Strangers greet them, and one of them gives the little girl a doll. Decades later, that little girl is grown up and she has the chance to welcome a group of refugees who are newly arrived in her adopted country. To the youngest of them, a little girl, she gives a doll, knowing it will help make her feel welcome. Inspired by real events.
50.
Series:
Carry On
Poetry by Young Immigrants
Hardcover
Various contributors
9781771474160
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 9 - 12
Apr 15, 2021
A moving #OwnVoices poetry collection written by young newcomers to Canada Carry On began in a high school in Outremont, Quebec, where author and poet Simon Boulerice conducted creative-writing workshops for young newcomers to Canada. As the students began writing, their poems gave voice to their reflections on leaving family, friends, and countries of origin to make new homes and connections in their new home, Canada. Paired with expressive portraits by award-winning artist Rogé, each young writer reflects on the experience of leaving one ...
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51.
Series:
Travesia
A Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey//El viaje de una joven migrante
Paperback
Michelle Gerster
9781551528366
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Age (years) from 12
Apr 06, 2021
A poignant bilingual YA graphic novel about a teenage girl's harrowing experience crossing the Mexico-US border. This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey, filled with both heartbreak and hope, begins in Tijuana, where they are transported from house to house by strangers. Here they meet the mysterious smuggler el Guero, who p...
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55.
Series: Righting Canada's Wrongs
Righting Canada's Wrongs: Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis
Canada's Anti-Semitic Policies in the Twentieth Century
Hardcover
Rona Arato
9781459415669
$34.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 13 - 18
Jan 19, 2021
Prior to the Second World War, Canada's Jewish community was well established in many cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg. As war grew closer, anti-Semitism across Europe was increasing. Hitler's Nazis were spreading hatred and violence towards Jews across Germany. At first, Jews were allowed to leave Germany and thousands escaped to save themselves and their families. Then countries around the world closed their doors to Jewish refugees. In 1939, the MS St. Louis sailed for Cuba with nearly a thousand Jewish men, women, and childr...
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58.
Series:
Somewhere in the Unknown World
A Collective Refugee Memoir
Paperback
Kao Kalia Yang
9781250296856
$24.50
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 10, 2020
From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet.All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on ...
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60.
Series:
Maurice and His Dictionary
A True Story
Hardcover
Cary Fagan
9781771473231
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 12
Oct 15, 2020
This is the story of one refugee family’s harrowing journey, based on author Cary Fagan’s own family history. The graphic novel follows a young Jewish boy, Maurice, and his family as they flee their home in Belgium during the Second World War. They travel by train to Paris, through Spain to Portugal, and finally across the ocean to Jamaica, where they settle in an internment camp. All the while, Maurice is intent on continuing his education and growing up to be a lawyer. He overcomes obstacles to find a professor to study with, works toward ...
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