Integration nation : immigrants, refugees, and America at its best

Integration nation : immigrants, refugees, and America at its best / Susan E Eaton and the One Nation Indivisible Writer's Group.

"Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah, we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eaton, Susan E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Minorities > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
Americanization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Americanization
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Ethnic relations
Minorities
Race discrimination
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Ethnic relations.
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The other side of immigration
  • Utah's bilingual boom : a red state embraces linguistic diversity
  • Beyond brotherly love : Philadelphia's bet on attracting and retaining immigrants pays off
  • Same new struggle : building a better southern strategy in a changing Mississippi
  • What is found in translation? : for bilingual interpreters, a path out of poverty; for medical patients, an amplified voice
  • Reclamation space, reclaiming live : in Fort Wayne, Indiana, immigrants and refugees inspire new hope for an old building in a transformed city
  • Wealth for everyone : a North Carolina credit union serves a growing immigrant population and creates a safer, more prosperous community
  • We are from Hazleton : a baseball celebrity helps bring his divided Pennsylvania hometown together
  • Gardens gone global : in Boise, Idaho, refugee farmers reconnect to the land and pass on old traditions in a new place
  • Precisely this patch of earth : in America's heartland, three faiths share space, build relationships, and create an international model of pluralism
  • Why do we need to talk about race so much? : Montgomery County, Maryland's educators and parents circle in on culture, bias, and learning in diverse and changing schools
  • Lifelines in tough times : in a small Georgia city, health care providers respond to a demographic transformation and create a vital community of support
  • Stay close to all those things : children of the Somali diaspora find their way on their own terms in America's (formerly) whitest state
  • A way forward for a changing nation.

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