Research Guides: WECIB Spanish 1 Immigration Project: Books and eBooks

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The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Hannah Gill
ISBN: 9781469646411
Publication Date: 2018
Now thoroughly updated and revised--with a new chapter on the Dreamer movement and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA)--this book offers North Carolinians a better understanding of their Latino neighbors, illuminating rather than enflaming debates on immigration.
Encyclopedia of North Carolina by William S. Powell (Editor)
ISBN: 9780807830710
Publication Date: 2006
The first single-volume reference to the events, institutions, and cultural forces that have defined the state, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is a landmark publication that will serve those who love and live in North Carolina for generations to come.
Skills of the Unskilled by Jacqueline Hagan; Ruben Hernandez-Leon; Jean-Luc Demonsant
ISBN: 9780520283732
Publication Date: 2015
Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as "unskilled." Despite the value of migrants' work experiences and the substantial technical and interpersonal skills developed throughout their lives, the labor-market contributions of these migrants are often overlooked and their mobility pathways poorly understood.
The Third Reconstruction by William J. Barber; Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
ISBN: 9780807007419
Publication Date: 2016
This Third Reconstruction is a profoundly moral awakening of justice-loving people united in a fusion coalition powerful enough to reclaim the possibility of democracy-even in the face of corporate-financed extremism.

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The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina by Hannah E. Gill
ISBN: 9780807899380
Publication Date: 2010
Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation.
Conversations Across Our America by Louis G. Mendoza
ISBN: 9780292737396
Publication Date: 2012
In the summer of 2007, Louis G. Mendoza set off on a bicycle trip across the United States with the intention of conducting a series of interviews along the way.
Integration Nation by Susan E. Eaton
ISBN: 9781620971420
Publication Date: 2015
In recent years, politicians in a handful of local communities and states have passed laws and regulations designed to make it easier to deport unauthorized immigrants or to make their lives so unpleasant that they'd just leave.
Shifting Boundaries by Alexis M. Silver
ISBN: 9781503605749
Publication Date: 2018
Silver examines the experiences of immigrant youth growing up in a small town in North Carolina--a state that experienced unprecedented growth in its Latino population in the 1990s and 2000s, and where aggressive anti-immigration policies have been enforced.