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Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home by Nikesh Shukla 9781529032918
RRP: $33.13$23.95'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, OtherHow do you find hope and even joy in a world that is... -
Racism in Canada by Vic Satzewich 9780195430660
RRP: $21.43$18.19There are widely divergent views about racism in Canada. Some believe that racism is a fundamental feature of Canadian society and national identity. This dystopian view of Canada as a fundamentally and irrevocably racist society carries considerable... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
RRP: $25.33$25.21This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small... -
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in An Age of Extremes by Mimi Sheller
RRP: $33.13$28.28Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challenges of urbanization. At the same time it is difficult to ignore the deaths of thousands of migrants at sea... -
The Violence of Britishness: Racism, Borders and the Conditions of Citizenship by Nadya Ali
RRP: $33.13$22.50In post-Brexit Britain wracked by multiple crises, the entitlements of citizenship grow increasingly precarious. 'Britishness' is a way of understanding the nation shaped by white nationalism that acts as a powerful tool of racial bordering, separating... -
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Become the Scapegoats by Maya Goodfellow 9781788733366
RRP: $25.33$16.54The UK government proudly calls the aim of its immigration policy to be the creation of a "hostile environment," while refugees drown in the Mediterranean and Britain votes to leave the EU against claims that "swarms"of migrants are entering Britain... -
Rivermouth: An Interpreter's Testimony by Alejandra Oliva 9781662601699
RRP: $48.75$31.94The Line Becomes a River meets Tell Me How It Ends in this book about translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States' "immigration crisis." Alejandra Oliva is Mexican American, her family lineage defined by a long and... -
A Seventh Man by John Berger
RRP: $25.33$21.22Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a... -
Forging Diasporic Citizenship: Narratives from German-Born Turkish Ausländer by Gül Çalışkan
RRP: $66.30$57.19Around the world, a new kind of diasporic citizenship is appearing, especially among diasporic people such as German-born Berliners of Turkish origin. Drawing on interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period, Forging Diasporic Citizenship explores the... -
Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP by Mirin Fader 9780306924118
RRP: $29.23$19.11As the face of the NBA's new world order, Giannis Antetokounmpo has overcome unfathomable obstacles to become a symbol of hope for people all over the world; the personification of the American Dream. But his backstory remains largely untold. Fader... -
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon 9780520282759
RRP: $48.75$38.18In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur... -
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The real story told by the people themselves by David Matthews 9781788701341
RRP: $37.03$14.16'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation... -
The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S. Donnelly
RRP: $58.50$42.86In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a... -
Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below by Shahram Khosravi
RRP: $38.98$31.34'This conceptually vivid book refreshes our vision' - Ruth Wilson Gilmore The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political and economic... -
Black History London Map: Guide to Black Historical Landmarks in London by Jody Burton 9781912018215
RRP: $17.55$13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018215Author Jody BurtonPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow Media -
Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race by Sita Balani
RRP: $33.13$22.37If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most... -
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas 9780062851345
RRP: $19.48$12.95THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This riveting, courageous memoir ought to be mandatory reading for every American." -Michelle Alexander, New York Times bestselling author of The New Jim Crow"l cried reading this book, realizing more fully what my parents... -
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder
RRP: $27.28$18.51City of Dreams is the long overdue, inspiring, and defining account of New York's both famous and forgotten immigrants: the young man from the Caribbean who relocated to New York and became a founding father; Russian born Emma Goldman, who condoned the... -
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present by Peter Gatrell
RRP: $33.13$23.95WINNER OF THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE 2021 AND ITALY'S CHERASCO HISTORY PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to... -
Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970: Their Image in AJR Information by Anthony Grenville
RRP: $38.90$36.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853038528Author Anthony GrenvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 by T. M. Devine
RRP: $25.33$17.73Part of his trilogy on Scottish history, T. M. Devine's To the Ends of the Earth is a compelling account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern world. The Scots are one of the world's greatest... -
America's Lost Chinese: The Rise and Fall of a Migrant Family Dream by Hugo Wong 9781805260561
RRP: $58.50$51.54From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and economic enrichment-but America gave the Chinese new perspectives and... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley 9780008262785
RRP: $19.48$5.67'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe by Daniel Trilling
RRP: $19.48$13.77Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Book of the Year'This powerful study looks behind the statistics and political slogans to reveal the human face of the refugee crisis.' GuardianA mother who puts her children into a refrigerated lorry and asks 'what... -
Border Nation: A Story of Migration by Leah Cowan
RRP: $19.48$13.26'A must-read manifesto for border abolition' - gal-dem Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows... -
Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees by Paul Dowswell 9781785907937
RRP: $48.75$34.05The welcome given to refugees from fascist Europe is part of our fond nostalgia for Britain's role in the Second World War, nestling in our imagination next to images of evacuees clutching teddy bears, and milkmen picking their way through bomb rubble... -
Caithness to Patagonia: Distant Lands and Close Relatives by Ian Leith 9781849951739
RRP: $33.13$27.50This is an extraordinary and little-known story of emigration fromScotland. Caithness and Patagonia are literally a world apart, yet in the late19th and early 20th centuries a number of Caithness men and women took on thechallenge of this wild, open and... -
Plough Quarterly No. 8: Who Is My Neighbor by Gerhard Lohfink
RRP: $15.58$14.00From Jordan to Germany, the influx of refugees is straining goodwill to the breaking point. This issue of Plough Quarterly focuses on the second half of Jesus' Great Commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself. We found love of neighbor demonstrated by... -
Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP by Mirin Fader
RRP: $48.75$32.72The story of Giannis Antetokounmpo's extraordinary rise from poverty in Athens, Greece, to superstardom in America with the Milwaukee Bucks-becoming one of the most transcendent players in history and an NBA Champion-from award-winning basketball... -
Fresh Off The Boat by Eddie Huang 9780812983357
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983357Author Eddie HuangFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Dishing the Dirt: The Hidden Lives of House Cleaners by Nick Duerden
RRP: $19.48$12.50'A jaw-dropping investigation' - THE BOOKSELLER 'Succeeds brilliantly in dismantling casual assumptions about the drudgery of cleaning' - THE GUARDIAN 'A great book, well researched, funny and poignant. I loved it.' - KIT DE WAAL Dishing the... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes 9780140081794
RRP: $19.48$13.86George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first of these came out in 1946: the ever famous "How to be an... -
The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley 9781631492556
$38.57On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe-at least for the time being-in Egypt, where they had only just settled after fleeing their... -
Imperialism: A Study by J. A. Hobson 9780851247885
RRP: $38.90$36.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247885Author J. A. HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom in a Retreating World by Luigi Achilli 9781421447513
RRP: $73.13$64.68Completely revised and updated: an essential edited collection of essays on global human smuggling.Migrant smuggling is now more entrenched than ever in many regions around the world, with efforts to combat it both largely unsuccessful and often... -
Asian Britain: A Photographic History by Susheila Nasta 9781908906113
RRP: $39.00$33.99South Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures continues to flourish today... -
You and I Eat the Same:: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1) by Chris Ying 9781579658403
RRP: $29.23$19.89Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food MattersNamed one of the Best Food Books of the Year by The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and moreMAD Dispatches: Furthering Our Ideas About Food Good food is the common... -
Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936 by Adam McKeown 9780226560250
RRP: $62.40$60.66Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, Adam McKeown asks in this new book: How were the experiences of different migrant communities and hometowns in China linked together through common networks? Chinese Migrant Networks and... -
Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today by Hans Lucht 9780520270732
RRP: $48.75$37.40This riveting book chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. A story that illuminates the nature of high-risk migration around... -
Race and the Undeserving Poor by Robbie Shilliam
RRP: $44.83$41.89Over recent years, tabloid readers have become familiar with the concept of the "white working class", those thought to have been "left behind" by globalization, including immigration. Such sentiments were weaponized by politicians on all sides to fuel...