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Do They Hear You When You Cry?

Fauziya Kassindja

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A true story of persecution, friendship, and ultimate triumph, Do They Hear You When You Cry chronicles the struggles of two extraordinary women: Fauziya Kassindja, who fled her African homeland to escape female genital mutilation only to be locked up in American prisons for sixteen months; and Layli Miller Bashir, a driven young law student who fought for Fauziya's freedom.

Fauziya Kassindja's harrowing story begins in Togo, Africa, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood, shielded by her progressive father from the tribal practice of polygamy and genital mutilation. But when her father died in 1993, Fauziya's life changed dramatically. At age seventeen Fauziya was forced to marry a man she barely knew who already had three wives, and prepare for the tribal ritual of female genital mutilation--a practice that is performed without painkillers or antibiotics. But hours before the ritual was to take place, Fauziya's sister helped her escape to Germany, and from there she traveled to the United States seeking asylum--and freedom. Instead, she was stripped, shackled, and locked up in various INS detention facilities for sixteen months.

Enter Layli Miller Bashir, a driven twenty-three-year-old law student who took on Fauziya's case. When the two women met, Layli found an emotionally broken, emaciated girl with whom she forged an extraordinary friendship. Putting her heart and soul into Fauziya's case, Layli enlisted help from the American University International Human Rights Clinic. The clinic's acting director, Karen Musalo, an expert in refugee law, devoted her own considerable efforts to the case, and assembled a team to fight with her on Fauziya's behalf. Ultimately, in a landmark decision that has given hope to many seeking asylum on the grounds of gender-based persecution, Fauziya was granted asylum on June 13, 1996.

Here, for the first time, is Fauziya's dramatic personal story, told in her own words, vividly detailing her life as a young woman in Togo and her nightmarish day-to-day existence in U.S. prisons. It is a story of faith and freedom, courage and inspiration--one that you will not soon forget.

Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Illegal Migrants

Ted Conover

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Coyotes: a borderlands journey by a journalist & now professor 4 out of 5 stars.
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This story rivets the reader to the writer's acceptance (guarded) by poor Hispanics as he seeks to be an Imbed with them when they cross the border at a couple of different sites. There was the interception by Mexican border police and their payoff; then life beyond the border on the way to nearby farms serviced by Coyotes (travel guides and job finders) and potato fields of Idaho (serviced by the same dependable families year after year).
It gives many glimpses of that struggle to pass on a better life to the kids.

The writer may influence many who would become investigative reporters.

Unique observations of life as an undocumented worker 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is one of a handful of books recently written where the author joins a group of undocumented workers crossing the border in attempt to gain employment in the United States. The interesting twist here is that the author, though apparently fluent in Spanish, is white. He also attempts to work in the fields himself, as opposed to simply observing and writing about the work of others. This leads to a number of unique experiences and observations on race relations that are rarely discussed in this context. It also allows the reader to better understand what life is like for many undocumented workers in this country. Kudos to Ted Conover for making a sincere effort to better understand the lives of those that would not otherwise be recorded.

The Uprooted

Oscar Handlin

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The #1 'Must Read' For Any Serious U.S. Genealogist 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you want to feel what your ancestors felt after they landed, this is the book for you.
I have read many, many books of this type, and Handlin's is still the best.
He looks at the Great Migration from the point of the impact on the immigrants and their children, rather than the impact on Canadian and United States cultures.
This book goes into areas that the documentaries that we've all seen, do not. This should be the primer for anyone who is going to read about conditions in the countries that their ancestors came to the US and Canada from. Without this piece, what went before won't make as much sense.
Dispells the theory that we were taught in the 60s and 70s, that the immigrants came because they wanted to, and this was to them, the land of rags to riches. Handlin points out that if their very lives had nott been at stake, the vast majority would never have made the move.

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Provides an historical account of the 35,000,000 people who emigrated to America in the 19th and early 20th century. The author offers an insight into alienation, its consequences and the emotions of those involved. The book examines their disillusionment incited by a new land.

Twice a Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Greece and Turkey

Bruce Clark

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In the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece were expelled from homelands. The Lausanne treaty resulted in the deportation of Orthodox Christians from Turkey to Greece and of Muslims from Greece to Turkey. The transfer was hailed as a solution to the problem of minorities who could not coexist. Both governments saw the exchange as a chance to create societies of a single culture. The opinions and feelings of those uprooted from their native soil were never solicited.

In an evocative book, Bruce Clark draws on new archival research in Turkey and Greece as well as interviews with surviving participants to examine this unprecedented exercise in ethnic engineering. He examines how the exchange was negotiated and how people on both sides came to terms with new lands and identities.

Politically, the population exchange achieved its planners' goals, but the enormous human suffering left shattered legacies. It colored relations between Turkey and Greece, and has been invoked as a solution by advocates of ethnic separation from the Balkans to South Asia to the Middle East. This thoughtful book is a timely reminder of the effects of grand policy on ordinary people and of the difficulties for modern nations in contested regions where people still identify strongly with their ethnic or religious community.

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The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation

Leo R. Chavez

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From volunteers ready to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have marched in support of immigrant rights, the United States has witnessed a surge of involvement in immigration activism. In The Latino Threat, Leo R. Chavez critically investigates the media stories about and recent experiences of immigrants to show how prejudices and stereotypes have been used to malign an entire immigrant population—and to define what it means to be an American.

Pundits—and the media at large—nurture and perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once considered their own. Through a perceived refusal to learn English and an "out of control" birthrate, many say that Latinos are destroying the American way of life. But Chavez questions these assumptions and offers facts to counter the myth that Latinos are a threat to the security and prosperity of our nation.

His breakdown of the "Latino threat" contests this myth's basic tenets, challenging such well-known authors as Samuel Huntington, Pat Buchanan, and Peter Brimelow. Chavez concludes that citizenship is not just about legal definitions, but about participation in society. Deeply resonant in today's atmosphere of exclusion, Chavez's insights offer an alternative and optimistic view of the vitality and future of our country.

Black bourgeoisie (Collier books)

Edward Franklin Frazier

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I would give it ten stars if I could 5 out of 5 stars.
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When I became a thinker and was searching for knowledge (Thanks to rappers like Chuck D, X- Clan and BDP) about truth, one of the first books I read was E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoise. It inflamed passions then as does now of the black elite (and middle class) who he felt were inffectual and were more concerned about their own personal glory than about the race's moblity. Fraizer traces the history of the black middle and upper class trajectory through the 1950's, It may sound dated but since Cosby's tirade two years ago and his 'call out'tours and other black intellectuals and writers critiques on the black poor's behavior and their failure to curtail it (mainly because black america is divided by class even more than since segregation) makes this book even more relevant. You will be amazed as the more things change they remain the same a black upper and middle class who has great racial self- hatred towards themselves and the black poor.

THE "LUMBPEN-BLACK-BOURGEOISIE" EXPOSED! 5 out of 5 stars.
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E. Franklin Frazier's *Black Bourgeoisie* first published in 1957, is as relevant today as it was then. Frazier stated that his primary purpose for the "study is to make a sociological analysis of the black bourgeoisie."

The study examines the status of the black bourgeoisie and how they, as a class, came about in the American society. He assesses black enterprise within the economy and the significance of black business. p.23

Frazier argues that the black bourgeoisie "lacking a cultural tradition and rejecting identification with the Negro masses on the one hand, and suffering from the contempt of the white world on the other, the black bourgeoisie has developed a deep-seated inferiority complex. In order to compensate for this feeling of inferiority, the black bourgeoisie has created in its isolation what might be described as a world of make-believe in which it attempts to escape the disdain of whites and fulfill its wish for status in American life." pp.24-25.

As I understand it, when this work was first published about 50 year ago, it made the black "middle class" very uncomfortable. Naturally, they were quite critical of Frazier and the work.

Many aspects of Frazier's assessment of the black bourgeoisie, in terms of their modus operandi and business dealings, could easily be applied to the behavior of the native bourgeoisie in former colonial territories in Central America, South America, Africa, India and Asia. Andre Gunder Frank used the term "lumpen-bourgeoisie" to explain the behavior of the native business class in Latin America.

The "black bourgeoisie," essentially, in their attempt to accumulate wealth, facilitates the exploitation of the black population by big corporations and the political elites.

This "lumpen-black-bourgeoisie" therefore, preys upon the black majority perpetuating and intensifying the underdevelopment and poverty already inflicted upon the poor by their historical circumstances, by politicians, corporations and the big financial bourgeois.

Frazier's book is not dated. It remains a worthwhile reading for students and general readers.

For further information on the African Diaspora bourgeoisie/Globalization See also:

In-Dependence from Bondage: Claude McKay and Michael Manley: Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations

Nuer Journeys, Nuer Lives: Sudanese Refugees in Minnesota (Part of the New Immigrants Series) (2nd Edition) (New Immigrants)

Jon D. Holtzman, Nancy Foner

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This book examines contemporary migration to the United States through a surprising and compelling case study – the Nuer of Sudan, whose traditional life represents one of the most important case studies in the history of anthropology. In understanding the experiences of the Nuer, students will not only gain insights into the world refugee problem and the role of immigration in the United States, they will also learn about the features of Nuer life which are considered a standard part of the anthropology curriculum. The book juxtaposes elements of Nuer culture which are well-known within anthropology — and featured in most anthropology textbooks — with new developments arising from the immigration of many other Nuer to the U.S. in the 1990s as refugees from civil war in southern Sudan. Consequently, this book will fit well within existing anthropology curricula, while providing an important update on descriptions of traditional life. In addition to fascinating vignettes and case studies, this book provides an opportunity to examine issues of current importance within anthropology, such as social change, transnationalism, displacement, and diaspora in an easy to understand manner.

 

Another Man's Sombrero: A Conservative Broadcaster's Undercover Journey Across the Mexican Border

Darrell Ankarlo

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Very insightful book. 4 out of 5 stars.
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I have just finished reading Mr. Ankarlo's "Another Man's Sombrero". This book is a very insightful look into the attack on our sovereignty as a nation from the illegal immigrant (let me repeat: illegal).

The first half of the book are stories from the author's personal trips on both sides of the border seeking the "inside" story on illegal immigration. Some of these accounts are heart-breaking, while others are outright scary!

The last half of the book is a look into some eye-opening statistics, interviews with experts and our leaders (Senator McCain included), and some personal thoughts on how to correct the problem.

The only reason I give this book 4 stars and not 5 is because I felt the stories in the first half of the book were hard to follow in a chronological format. Sometimes, I wasn't sure if he was going back to a previous trip or it was a new one.

I highly recommend this book because our nation is going to have to face this issue in some manner. I hope we can do it before it is too late and decided for us.

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Not since the Civil War has America been so divided over such a seemingly unsolvable issue as U.S. immigration policy.

The president and congress are at an impasse, while vigilante groups patrol our nation's borders looking for one of the million yearly invaders. Why are 20 million people disregarding America's sovereign borders and laws to come to this country? Popular radio host Darrell Ankarlo follows the lives of several Mexican citizens as they contemplate their existence south of the border, their temptation to sneak into America, and what waits for them here. To understand the issue first-hand, Ankarlo stared down gun barrels, was caught in the middle of a drug-lord showdown, and then wandered the Arizona desert after illegally sneaking back into America. Another Man's Sombrero explores issues raised by these personal stories and offers perspectives-often contradictory-from U.S. citizens.

Debating Immigration

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Have you ever really looked? 4 out of 5 stars.
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Did you know an educated America in not in the best interest of either Conservative, or Libral? So we have this incorrigible debate over the pros and cons of immigration. Americans are ill prepared for the tech jobs of todays economy. True, but we allowed things to be this way. We allow people to serve on our school boards who have no children in the school systems. Decision making positions, with no vested interests. The result, ill-educated children, who are unprepared, or underprepared, for today's job market. So we try to make up for these short comings by crying for the importation of Engineers, Teachers, (after abusing teachers for decades),Nurses (again abusing them), Scientists, and Researchers, just to name a few. We have sadly dropped the ball of education in America. With crowded schools and too few teachers, and schools. Tax breaks here and there, and now the result. We have to import workers.

So we compound the issues by pealing away money to teach the newly arrived how to speak English, and allow the newly arrived to partake in every social program available. This all costs money. More taxbreaks. Not to mention illegal immigration, Emergency room costs, education costs, law enforcement, etc., etc.

When people legally immigrate to America, why should I and my fellow Americans foot the bill. Why cannot the immigrant pay his or her own way? Why have we allowed our social programs, healthcare, etc., to be shared with the newly arrived immigrants, in such huge numbers? Why, well because those running these programs lack any commonsense in terms of numbers. America is always talking about the needs it cannot afford for the citizens already here. So why take on an even larger burden? Such as printing voting ballots in other languages, for example, because the mewly arrived have not, or will not take the time to learn English. This costs money, tax payer money, yours and mine. Why illegal immigration alone costs this nation 6 billion dollars a year, then throw in another 4.9 billion for legal immigration and you see where this is all headed.

This book deals with the pros and cons of this and more. At the same time too many Americans are not informed as to how this system breaks down. Such as those seeking asylum for political oppression, religious oppression, and even sexual oppression. There happens to be, at this time a giant backlog which will take years to dissolve. More money.

Say you want to move to America, and you want to bring with you family members. Well they get a green light, as well. If these family members happen to be elderly, these people automatically get into SSI (Social Security Supplimental Sceurity Income). Not to mention medicare etc. As you know the Social Security program is on it's last leg. So why not let the world in on the program? You know what we have. Once again your money. No one appears to be listening to the other side. We have groups of lawyers who work on behalf of immigration, but no one looks out for the tax payer, because our elected officials are missing in action. No one is looking out for commonsense, or rational thought.

This and more is one more reason for the people of this country as a whole to give immigration promentant attention. Not only because we do not know who is immigrating to our "HOME." We need to gather as much information on the workings of the immigration program, take a walk to Capitol Hill, seek out and grab our elected officials by the ear and have a true conversation over this very pressing issue. Read as much as you can, and speak up aganist the "AMNESTY" our lawmakers are trying to shove down our throats. Maybe, just maybe give them a good book to read on the subject. Well that would not work, because few if any of our lawmakers ever read any bill before making said law, the law of the land. Lawmakers, you think?

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Debating Immigration presents 18 original essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and preeminent scholars, that explore the nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship affecting the United States and Europe. The volume is organized around the following themes: religion and philosophy, law and policy, economics and demographics, race and ethnicity, and cosmopolitanism. Critical questions addressed include: What accounts for the disconnect between public attitudes about immigration and the policies produced by elected officials? Why has the United States not developed a well-articulated public philosophy of immigration?

Nisei daughter

Monica Itoi Sone

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Entertaining, but disappointing 3 out of 5 stars.
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Part of Nisei Daughter's charm is the way Sone is able to weave entertaining anecdotes throughout her tale, a story which is essentially about what being Japanese American in the time around wartime America meant to her. Specifically, her position as a Nisei daughter -- child of first generation Japanese Americans -- is the focus of this tale.

The disappointing thing about this book is how obviously self-censored the book is. Sone very briefly reveals deeply felt rage and resentment at intervals during the book, only to shake them off and quickly change to a more light-hearted topic. Granted, there is an ironic tone to many of her comments and situations, and again granted, she is writing for a post-war audience that probably would not be receptive to outspoken criticism of the Internment, but still Sone seems to sugar coat the experience just a bit too much for my tastes. By the end, with the patriotic speeches that make it sound like the Internment was as much the fault of the Japanese Americans as it was the government, I was getting a little tired of Sone's carefree and apologetic tone, especially after the highly charged preface. In the book, Sone all but thanks the government for interning her and her family and giving them this character-building experience.

If you are truly interested in the internment and the impact it had on the Japanese Americans, try a book like Joy Kogawa's "Obasan." It's written about the Japanese Canadian experience, which was even more extreme than the Japanese American one. Kogawa also experienced internment first hand, but "Obasan" is written far enough after the fact that Kogawa is able to give the story more perspective and is able to put a more honest face on what really happened.

Nisei Daughter is not a bad book by any means ... but it did not live up to my expectations either. Sone's self-conscious editing makes the story seem much more like a novel than the autobiography that it supposedly is. I kept wishing she would drop the mask she was wearing and let the reader see what she was really thinking!