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Author Conley, Ellen Alexander

Title The chosen shore : stories of immigrants / Ellen Alexander Conley
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 283 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Foreword; PART ONE: Hyphenated Americans; PART TWO: Postcards from America; PART THREE: Charred Portraits: america post-9/11
Summary A Korean street child is adopted into an upper-middle-class suburban home. A Vietnamese monk dishes up fast food to fund a spiritual center. A woman saves for a home back in Ghana, where she will never live. All are immigrants to the United States, known to most of their fellow Americans only as statistics
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Subject Immigrants -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520937468
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0520218825
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9781417545032
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