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Migration Today: OBOC 2013 Further Reading

These titles explore migration today and how the drive to move is shaping our world. This list is inspired by the 2013-14 One Book, One Chicago theme of migration, and the book selection, Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.

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8 items

  • Arrival City

    How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

    Saunders, Doug
    PaperbackNew York : Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2012. — HB1955.S286 2012
  • Crossing Over

    a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

    Martínez, Rubén
    BookNew York : Picador USA/Metropolitan Book, 2002. — E184.M5M388 2002
  • PaperbackNew York : Washington Square Press, 2013. — E184.M5G665 2013
  • Exceptional People

    How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

    Goldin, Ian, 1955-
    BookPrinceton : Princeton University Press, c2011. — JV6035.G65 2011
  • The New Americans

    a Guide to Immigration Since 1965

    BookCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. — JV6455.N49 2007
  • The New Chosen People

    Immigrants in the United States

    Jasso, Guillermina
    BookNew York : Russell Sage Foundation for the National Committee for Research on the 1980 Census, c1990. — JV6455.5.J37 1990
  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White : the Strange Journey From Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    Roediger, David R.
    PaperbackNew York : Basic Books, 2006, c2005. — E184.A1R645 2006