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Immigration and Assimilation & young adult well beingbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Immigration and Assimilation and young adult well being.

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Americanah

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun—the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2024
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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America

Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021 A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation “A wondrous tapestry of stories, of young people looking for a home.

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Elly Fishman
2024
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Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society

One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Very few will return to the country they barely remember.

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Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Irina Todorova
2010
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A Cuban Refugee’s Journey to the American Dream: The Power of Education

In February 1962, three years into Fidel Castro’s rule of their Cuban homeland, the González family―an auto mechanic, his wife, and two young children―landed in Miami with a few personal possessions and two bottles of Cuban rum.

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Gerardo M. Gonzalez
2018
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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for...

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Malaka Gharib
2019
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America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility

Growing up in middle-class India, Rajika Bhandari has seen generations of her family look westward, where an American education means status and success. But she resists the lure of America because those who left never return—they all become flies trapped in honey in a land of opportunity.

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Rajika Bhandari
2024
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Warda: My Journey from the Horn of Africa to a College Education

Set in the rugged shrublands of rural Ethiopia, the contentious neighborhoods of South Africa, and the icy streets of Michigan, Warda is the story of a fierce young woman on a tireless quest to become the first member of her family to go to college.

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Warda Mohamed Abdullahi
2024
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Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities

In her engaging study, Passing for Perfect,erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim—who pretended to be a Stanford freshman—and Jennifer Pan—who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma—to extreme...

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erin Khuê Ninh
2021
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Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law

Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and how―despite this risk―many of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights.

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Kevin Escudero
2024
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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)

In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place.

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Sejal Shah
2020
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