UID:
almafu_9959235844702883
Format:
1 online resource (330 pages) :
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illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-802039-2
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1-280-60517-0
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1-4237-3837-3
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1-60129-576-6
Content:
These are powerful and stirring tales about ordinary people who are surmounting extraordinary obstacles to gain access to a better life, to liberty, and to the pursuit of happiness.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Reopening the Doors -- 1. I Get Homesick Every Day: Refugees from Indochina -- 2. Don't Have My Papers Yet: Undocumented Aliens -- 3. Ten Years Is a Long Time: A Woman from Rural Peru -- 4. I Don't Know Where They Came From: Greengrocers, Doctors, and Other Koreans -- 5. Someplace Else If Not America: Irish Women's Journey -- 6. It's Good for the Important Things: To Leave Russia as a Jew -- 7. I Was Afraid But More I Was Hungry: Brooklyn's West Indians -- 8. I Didn't Choose America, I Chose New York: Varying Italian Perspectives -- 9. Separate But Friends: Chinatown's New Chinese -- 10. Their Children's Country: Modern Greek Odyssey -- 11. Dr. Martinez's Daughter: A Honduran in Manhattan -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Bibliography.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-503000-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-503270-5
Language:
English
