Imigrace

Knihy o imigraci zkoumají cesty lidí překračujících hranice — ať už prchají před nebezpečím, hledají příležitosti nebo se znovu setkávají s rodinou — a zkoumají, jak národy řeší otázky příslušnosti, občanství a identity. Tyto příběhy sahají od intimních osobních vyprávění jednotlivých migrantů až po rozsáhlé analýzy politiky, práce a sociálních sil, které určují, kdo je vítán a kdo je odmítán.

Imigrace Shrnutí knih

The Emperor of Gladness

od Ocean Vuong

A suicidal teen becomes caregiver to the old woman with dementia who saved his life.

3.85

81 000+

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Lgbt

Imerzivní

The Emperor of Gladness

A suicidal teen becomes caregiver to the old woman with dementia who saved his life.

od Ocean Vuong 2025 402 stran

3.85

81 000+ hodnocení

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Lgbt

Dream Count

od Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2025

A Nigerian writer in lockdown tallies her lost loves while women around her face private reckonings.

3.77

52 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Afrika

Dream Count

A Nigerian writer in lockdown tallies her lost loves while women around her face private reckonings.

od Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2025 474 stran

3.77

52 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Afrika

Solito

od Javier Zamora • 2022

A nine-year-old, a coyote, a fake name: 3,000 miles to parents he barely remembered.

4.48

80 000+

Memoáry

Biografie

Autobiografie

Solito

A nine-year-old, a coyote, a fake name: 3,000 miles to parents he barely remembered.

od Javier Zamora 2022 384 stran

4.48

80 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Biografie

Autobiografie

The Happiest Refugee

od Anh Do • 2010

Fleeing Vietnam as a toddler, facing pirates and storms, he became Australia's most joyful newcomer.

4.25

18 000+

Memoáry

Biografie

Autobiografie

The Happiest Refugee

Fleeing Vietnam as a toddler, facing pirates and storms, he became Australia's most joyful newcomer.

od Anh Do 2010 232 stran

4.25

18 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Biografie

Autobiografie

Long Island

od Colm Tóibín • 2024

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

3.70

89 000+

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Irsko

Long Island

An Irish immigrant flees home after her husband's betrayal, to find her former lover engaged.

od Colm Tóibín 2024 294 stran

3.70

89 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Irsko

Everything Sad Is Untrue

od Daniel Nayeri • 2020

An Iranian refugee boy tells family legends to an Oklahoma school that sees only an outsider.

4.30

44 000+

Pro starší děti

Současná literatura

Dospívání

Everything Sad Is Untrue

An Iranian refugee boy tells family legends to an Oklahoma school that sees only an outsider.

od Daniel Nayeri 2020 368 stran

4.30

44 000+ hodnocení

Pro starší děti

Současná literatura

Dospívání

Albion's Seed

od David Hackett Fischer • 1989

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

4.38

3 000+

Historie

Antropologie

Sociologie

Albion's Seed

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

od David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 stran

4.38

3 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Antropologie

Sociologie

The Book of Unknown Americans

od Cristina Henríquez • 2014

A Mexican mother stakes everything on a Delaware apartment that was supposed to save her daughter.

3.90

46 000+

Literární fikce

Imigrace

Současná literatura

The Book of Unknown Americans

A Mexican mother stakes everything on a Delaware apartment that was supposed to save her daughter.

od Cristina Henríquez 2014 286 stran

3.90

46 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Imigrace

Současná literatura

Brooklyn

od Colm Tóibín • 2009

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

3.75

100 000+

Historická fikce

Romantika

Literární fikce

Brooklyn

An Irish emigrant finds love in Brooklyn, then a death back home forces an impossible choice.

od Colm Tóibín 2009 262 stran

3.75

100 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Romantika

Literární fikce

The Red Umbrella

od Christina Diaz Gonzalez • 2010

1961 Cuba: to survive Castro's revolution, a girl must leave everything for strangers in Nebraska.

4.07

5 000+

Historická fikce

Pro mladé dospělé

Historické

The Red Umbrella

1961 Cuba: to survive Castro's revolution, a girl must leave everything for strangers in Nebraska.

od Christina Diaz Gonzalez 2010 284 stran

4.07

5 000+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Pro mladé dospělé

Historické

Americanah

od Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2013

A Nigerian blogger abandons her success to return to Lagos and the first love she left.

4.31

400 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Afrika

Americanah

A Nigerian blogger abandons her success to return to Lagos and the first love she left.

od Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 477 stran

4.31

400 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Afrika

The New Geography Of Jobs

od Enrico Moretti • 2012

A single innovation job creates five local ones, but only where the cluster already exists.

4.03

2 000+

Ekonomie

Podnikání

Sociologie

The New Geography Of Jobs

A single innovation job creates five local ones, but only where the cluster already exists.

od Enrico Moretti 2012 304 stran

4.03

2 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Podnikání

Sociologie

Second Class Citizen

od Buchi Emecheta • 1974

A Nigerian wife arrives in London chasing freedom. Her husband's fists teach her otherwise.

4.11

4 000+

Literární fikce

Afrika

Feminismus

Second Class Citizen

A Nigerian wife arrives in London chasing freedom. Her husband's fists teach her otherwise.

od Buchi Emecheta 1974 174 stran

4.11

4 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Afrika

Feminismus

Tlumočník nemocí

od Jhumpa Lahiri • 1999

Nine stories of the Indian diaspora: the small devastations of distance and the search for home.

4.18

200 000+

Povídky

Literární fikce

Literatura

Tlumočník nemocí

Nine stories of the Indian diaspora: the small devastations of distance and the search for home.

od Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 198 stran

4.18

200 000+ hodnocení

Povídky

Literární fikce

Literatura

Crossing the Wire

od Will Hobbs • 2006

A Mexican farm boy rides freight trains and crosses the desert to save his starving family.

3.83

2 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Imigrace

Přežití

Crossing the Wire

A Mexican farm boy rides freight trains and crosses the desert to save his starving family.

od Will Hobbs 2006 216 stran

3.83

2 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Imigrace

Přežití

Strike Zone

od Mike Lupica • 2019

A Bronx pitcher dreams of Yankee Stadium. His undocumented parents dream of staying in America.

4.17

397

Sport

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná literatura

Strike Zone

A Bronx pitcher dreams of Yankee Stadium. His undocumented parents dream of staying in America.

od Mike Lupica 2019 272 stran

4.17

397 hodnocení

Sport

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná literatura

Reef

od Romesh Gunesekera • 1994

A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.

3.76

2 000+

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Dospívání

Reef

A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.

od Romesh Gunesekera 1994 190 stran

3.76

2 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Historická fikce

Dospívání

Living Beyond Borders

od Margarita Longoria • 2021

Where are you from? Mexican American teens navigate two cultures in search of their own voice.

4.09

1 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Antologie

Povídky

Living Beyond Borders

Where are you from? Mexican American teens navigate two cultures in search of their own voice.

od Margarita Longoria 2021 224 stran

4.09

1 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Antologie

Povídky

"They Take Our Jobs!"

od Aviva Chomsky • 2007

We blame immigrants for problems that trade deals and colonial extraction actually created.

4.06

500+

Politika

Imigrace

Historie

"They Take Our Jobs!"

We blame immigrants for problems that trade deals and colonial extraction actually created.

od Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 stran

4.06

500+ hodnocení

Politika

Imigrace

Historie

The Satisfaction Café

od Kathy Wang • 2025

A Taiwanese immigrant marries into wealth but spends decades building the home she was never given.

3.54

8 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Rodina

The Satisfaction Café

A Taiwanese immigrant marries into wealth but spends decades building the home she was never given.

od Kathy Wang 2025 352 stran

3.54

8 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Rodina

The Good Immigrant

od Nikesh Shukla • 2019

Twenty-six writers on the price of conditional belonging in America.

4.24

2 000+

Eseje

Rasa

Imigrace

The Good Immigrant

Twenty-six writers on the price of conditional belonging in America.

od Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 stran

4.24

2 000+ hodnocení

Eseje

Rasa

Imigrace

The Distance Between Us

od Reyna Grande • 2012

Left behind, a girl survives on hunger, hope, and a dream of crossing the border.

4.37

17 000+

Memoáry

Biografie

Imigrace

The Distance Between Us

Left behind, a girl survives on hunger, hope, and a dream of crossing the border.

od Reyna Grande 2012 325 stran

4.37

17 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Biografie

Imigrace

My Life in Full

od Indra Nooyi • 2021

An immigrant's rise to PepsiCo CEO, and the family tradeoffs no corner office can fix.

4.24

10 000+

Biografie

Memoáry

Podnikání

My Life in Full

An immigrant's rise to PepsiCo CEO, and the family tradeoffs no corner office can fix.

od Indra Nooyi 2021 320 stran

4.24

10 000+ hodnocení

Biografie

Memoáry

Podnikání

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

od Daisy Hernández • 2014

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

4.12

2 000+

Memoáry

Lgbt

Feminismus

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

A childhood translating for her parents gave her everything except a language for her bisexuality.

od Daisy Hernández 2014 185 stran

4.12

2 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Lgbt

Feminismus

Unaccustomed Earth

od Jhumpa Lahiri • 2008

Eight tales of Bengali immigrants and their American children, bound by love, divided by silence.

4.14

97 000+

Povídky

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Unaccustomed Earth

Eight tales of Bengali immigrants and their American children, bound by love, divided by silence.

od Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 stran

4.14

97 000+ hodnocení

Povídky

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

All My Rage

od Sabaa Tahir • 2022

Sal sells drugs to save his motel, hiding it from Noor, the girl he loves.

4.48

65 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná literatura

Romantika

All My Rage

Sal sells drugs to save his motel, hiding it from Noor, the girl he loves.

od Sabaa Tahir 2022 376 stran

4.48

65 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná literatura

Romantika

The Worlds I See

od Fei-Fei Li • 2023

How a Chinese immigrant who barely spoke English built the dataset that sparked the AI revolution.

4.31

5 000+

Memoáry

Věda

Informatika

The Worlds I See

How a Chinese immigrant who barely spoke English built the dataset that sparked the AI revolution.

od Fei-Fei Li 2023 336 stran

4.31

5 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Věda

Informatika

Good People

od Patmeena Sabit

An Afghan-American millionaire's daughter drowns in a canal. Accident, or did her family kill her?

4.20

29 000+

Literární fikce

Detektivky

Současná literatura

Imerzivní

Good People

An Afghan-American millionaire's daughter drowns in a canal. Accident, or did her family kill her?

od Patmeena Sabit 2026 400 stran

4.20

29 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Detektivky

Současná literatura

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

od Jonathan Blitzer • 2024

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

4.48

10 000+

Historie

Politika

Imigrace

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Central American migration is not an invasion; it is the long shadow of American foreign policy.

od Jonathan Blitzer 2024 544 stran

4.48

10 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Imigrace

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

od John Fante • 1938

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

4.10

14 000+

Klasika

Literární fikce

Romány

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

Starving in a Colorado shack, an Italian bricklayer abandons his family for a widow's bed.

od John Fante 1938 266 stran

4.10

14 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literární fikce

Romány

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

od Natalia Sylvester • 2022

A Peruvian American teen hides her dream of becoming a mermaid performer from her immigrant parents.

3.82

3 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná literatura

Zdravotní postižení

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

A Peruvian American teen hides her dream of becoming a mermaid performer from her immigrant parents.

od Natalia Sylvester 2022 352 stran

3.82

3 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná literatura

Zdravotní postižení

Undoing Border Imperialism

od Harsha Walia • 2013

Borders create the displacement they pretend to prevent, then turn survivors into cheap labor.

4.51

500+

Politika

Aktivismus

Imigrace

Undoing Border Imperialism

Borders create the displacement they pretend to prevent, then turn survivors into cheap labor.

od Harsha Walia 2013 340 stran

4.51

500+ hodnocení

Politika

Aktivismus

Imigrace

A Great Country

od Shilpi Somaya Gowda • 2024

An arrest at the airport upends an Indian-American family striving to belong in Southern California.

3.88

9 000+

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Rodina

A Great Country

An arrest at the airport upends an Indian-American family striving to belong in Southern California.

od Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2024 256 stran

3.88

9 000+ hodnocení

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Rodina

Christ in Concrete

od Pietro Di Donato • 1937

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

3.76

1 000+

Klasika

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

Christ in Concrete

A father buried in concrete. His twelve-year-old son must now lay brick to feed the family.

od Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 stran

3.76

1 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

Language City

od Ross Perlin • 2024

Seven hundred languages pack New York City. Most are on the verge of silence.

4.20

500+

Jazyk

Antropologie

Historie

Language City

Seven hundred languages pack New York City. Most are on the verge of silence.

od Ross Perlin 2024 432 stran

4.20

500+ hodnocení

Jazyk

Antropologie

Historie

This American Woman

od Zarna Garg • 2025

From homeless teenager in Mumbai to stand-up comedian in America: a life built on saying no.

4.32

16 000+

Memoáry

Humor

Komedie

This American Woman

From homeless teenager in Mumbai to stand-up comedian in America: a life built on saying no.

od Zarna Garg 2025 320 stran

4.32

16 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Humor

Komedie

Americanized

od Sara Saedi • 2018

She thought she was American. Her sister's confession at thirteen proved otherwise.

3.91

3 000+

Memoáry

Imigrace

Pro mladé dospělé

Americanized

She thought she was American. Her sister's confession at thirteen proved otherwise.

od Sara Saedi 2018 288 stran

3.91

3 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Imigrace

Pro mladé dospělé

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

od Scaachi Koul • 2017

Online trolls, body hair, Indian wedding: a daughter of immigrants learns where her fight belongs.

3.72

13 000+

Eseje

Memoáry

Humor

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

Online trolls, body hair, Indian wedding: a daughter of immigrants learns where her fight belongs.

od Scaachi Koul 2017 241 stran

3.72

13 000+ hodnocení

Eseje

Memoáry

Humor

Orphan Bachelors

od Fae Myenne Ng • 2023

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

3.91

238

Memoáry

Asijsko-americké

Čína

Orphan Bachelors

One family, one false name, and the century of silence the Chinese Exclusion Act demanded.

od Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 stran

3.91

238 hodnocení

Memoáry

Asijsko-americké

Čína

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

od Amy Chua • 2011

Straight As, zero sleepovers, hours of daily music. The daughters excelled, then one rebelled.

3.67

54 000+

Memoáry

Rodičovství

Culture

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Straight As, zero sleepovers, hours of daily music. The daughters excelled, then one rebelled.

od Amy Chua 2011 256 stran

3.67

54 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Rodičovství

Culture

Measure of a Man

od Martin Greenfield • 2014

He learned needlework in Auschwitz. Every U.S. president since Eisenhower wore the result.

4.18

1 000+

Memoáry

Biografie

Historie

Measure of a Man

He learned needlework in Auschwitz. Every U.S. president since Eisenhower wore the result.

od Martin Greenfield 2014 250 stran

4.18

1 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Biografie

Historie

Choice Theory

od William Glasser • 1999

How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.

4.01

3 000+

Historie

Politika

Sociologie

Choice Theory

How the frontier let America flee racism and inequality, until the wall shut the last exit.

od William Glasser 1999 368 stran

4.01

3 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Sociologie

We Were Dreamers

od Simu Liu • 2022

Fired from accounting, he answered a Craigslist ad for Asian extras. Today he's Shang-Chi.

4.33

30 000+

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Kanada

We Were Dreamers

Fired from accounting, he answered a Craigslist ad for Asian extras. Today he's Shang-Chi.

od Simu Liu 2022 320 stran

4.33

30 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Kanada

Good Girl

od Aria Aber • 2025

Grieving her mother, an Afghan-German woman spirals through Berlin clubs and a toxic affair.

3.63

11 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Dospívání

Good Girl

Grieving her mother, an Afghan-German woman spirals through Berlin clubs and a toxic affair.

od Aria Aber 2025 368 stran

3.63

11 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Dospívání

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

od Marina Lewycka • 2005

Warring sisters unite when their 84-year-old father decides to marry a Ukrainian gold digger.

3.45

37 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Humor

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

Warring sisters unite when their 84-year-old father decides to marry a Ukrainian gold digger.

od Marina Lewycka 2005 326 stran

3.45

37 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Humor

Making It in America

od Rachel Slade • 2024

Sixty thousand American factories shuttered since NAFTA. One couple bet everything to open just one.

3.63

323

Ekonomie

Podnikání

Politika

Making It in America

Sixty thousand American factories shuttered since NAFTA. One couple bet everything to open just one.

od Rachel Slade 2024 352 stran

3.63

323 hodnocení

Ekonomie

Podnikání

Politika

Mother Tongue

od Demetria Martínez • 1990

An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.

3.82

500+

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

Literatura

Mother Tongue

An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.

od Demetria Martínez 1990 208 stran

3.82

500+ hodnocení

Historická fikce

Literární fikce

Literatura

Escape from Saddam

od Lewis Alsamari • 2007

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

4.05

270

Biografie

Memoáry

Historie

Escape from Saddam

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

od Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 stran

4.05

270 hodnocení

Biografie

Memoáry

Historie

Amexica

od Ed Vulliamy • 2010

Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.

3.86

500+

Skutečné zločiny

Žurnalistika

Politika

Amexica

Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.

od Ed Vulliamy 2010 368 stran

3.86

500+ hodnocení

Skutečné zločiny

Žurnalistika

Politika

The Next America

od Paul Taylor • 2014

By 2033 the safety net runs dry. The generation expected to save it is already underwater.

3.67

500+

Sociologie

Politika

Ekonomie

The Next America

By 2033 the safety net runs dry. The generation expected to save it is already underwater.

od Paul Taylor 2014 280 stran

3.67

500+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Politika

Ekonomie

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