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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... + Read More
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Series: Containing Diversity Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century Paperback Yasmeen Abu-Laban 9781442609044 $68.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 03, 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, ... + Read More
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Series: Exit Wounds Poems 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... + Read More
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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,... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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.
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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 ... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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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 ... + Read More
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Coming of age against all odds in the midst of the Arab Spring. Growing up in Aleppo, Yara’s childhood has long been shadowed by the coming revolution. But when the Arab Spring finally arrives at Yara’s doorstep, it is worse than even her Nana imagined: sudden, violent, and deadly. When rescuers dig Yara out from under the rubble that was once her family’s home, she emerges to a changed world. Her parents and Nana are gone, and her brother, Saad, can’t speak—struck silent by everything he’s seen. Now, with her friend Shireen and Shireen’s chari... + Read More
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Series: The Paper Boat A Refugee Story Hardcover Thao Lam 9781771473637 $19.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Sep 15, 2020

Named a best picture book of 2020 by Kirkus, School Library Journal, Booklist, New York Public Library, the Globe and Mail, CBC, and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books — a heartfelt and personal immigration story by critically acclaimed author Thao Lam New from Thao Lam, the award-winning author of picture books My Cat Looks Like My Dad, Wallpaper, and Skunk on a String, comes a personal story inspired by her family’s refugee journey. In The Paper Boat, Thao’s signature collage art tells the wordless story of one family’s escap... + Read More
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Series: Snow Doves Hardcover Nancy Hartry 9781772601350 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Sep 15, 2020

Sami has just arrived in a new country. The snow piled up outside his window is a mysterious and, frankly, chilly surprise! Joy, his new neighbor, does not speak his language, but that does not stop them from communicating as Joy helps Sami overcome his fears. The two new friends get bundled up against the cold, and Sami discovers the magic of playing outside on a snowy day.
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Series: Reaching Mithymna Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos Paperback Steven Heighton 9781771963763 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

A poet’s firsthand account of a month volunteering on the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis.In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY-—a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a ... + Read More
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Series: The Eleventh Trade Paperback Alyssa Hollingsworth 9781250211460 $18.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 - 14 Sep 08, 2020

From debut author Alyssa Hollingsworth comes a moving middle-grade story about living with fear, being a friend, and finding a new place to call home.They say you can't get something for nothing, but nothing is all Sami has. When his grandfather?s most-prized possession?a traditional Afghan instrument called a rebab?is stolen, Sami resolves to get it back. He finds it at a music store, but it costs $700, and Sami doesn?t have even one penny. What he does have is a keychain that has caught the eye of his classmate. If he trades the keychain for ... + Read More
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Series: Mercury Series Pier 21 A History New edition Paperback Steven Schwinghamer 9780776631363 $27.95 HISTORY Aug 26, 2020

Between 1928 and 1971, nearly one million immigrants landed in Canada at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During those years, it was one of the main ocean immigration facilities in Canada, including when it welcomed home nearly 400,000 Canadians after service overseas during the Second World War. In the immediate postwar period, Pier 21 became the busiest ocean port of entry in the country. Today, people across Canada still enjoy connections to Pier 21 through family history and stories of arrival at the site. Since 1998, researchers at the Pie... + Read More