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The Warmth of Other Suns (2010)★ 8.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2010Follow three people who left the Jim Crow South for different American cities. George Starling’s trip from Florida to New York is one way into a larger history of how labor conditions and segregation shaped the decision to go. Wilkerson follows people after they arrive, when the possibilities of a…0 - 2
Coolie woman (2014)Published Jan 1, 2014Bahadur starts with her great-grandmother, who sailed from India to British Guiana in 1903. Her search through colonial records opens up the system that recruited workers under indenture for sugar estates after slavery. Read this for the particular risks and choices facing a woman traveling within…0 - 3
The Windrush Betrayal (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019Long-settled Commonwealth migrants were asked to prove a right to live and work in Britain that many had never received paperwork for. Gentleman’s reporting follows people caught by those checks. Start here to see how a change in what officials and employers ask to see can make the same person’s…0 - 4
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves (2019)Published Jan 1, 2019Rosalie trains as a nurse in the Philippines, works in the Middle East, and eventually gets an offer from a hospital in Texas. That career path is the thread through a family’s long periods apart. It shows how demand for a skill can make a route possible and still leave a family with hard choices…0 - 5
The land of open graves (2015)★ 9.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2015De León examines the U.S. strategy known as Prevention Through Deterrence, which channeled crossings away from heavily policed urban areas and toward dangerous desert terrain. His combination of interviews and objects recovered from the Arizona desert puts the consequences of a border policy in…0 - 6
Foreign in Two Homelands (2024)Published Jan 1, 2024West Germany recruited workers from Turkey and later offered some unemployed former guest workers money to leave. Kahn’s interviews follow families who had to decide what returning would mean, including children who had grown up in Germany. This is a good companion to histories that end at the…0 - 7
The great departure (2016)Published Jan 1, 2016Look at mass migration from the European towns and villages that people left. Zahra considers how officials tried to channel departures, whether by encouraging some minorities to go or by imagining communities overseas as extensions of home. She also follows people who came back, a part of the…0 - 8
No Friend But the Mountains (2018)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2018Australia’s offshore detention policy took Boochani to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea after he sought asylum. Written in detention and translated by Omid Tofighian, his account gives the queues and daily rules as much attention as the larger policy. The book is a way to see how control over time…0 - 9
Crossing the Bay of Bengal (2013)Published Jan 1, 2013Amrith follows people who crossed from South India to Burma, Malaya, and Singapore as colonial labor markets grew around the bay. Plantation work is one way into the connection between places we usually read about in separate national histories. Choose this for a view of a whole region built in…0 - 10
City of thorns (2016)Published Jan 1, 2016Rawlence follows nine residents of the Dadaab camps in Kenya. Ration distribution and an informal economy are part of the story because they shape how residents can eat, earn, and plan. The book makes the long years after flight as tangible as the journey that brought people there.0
