Immigration

Les livres sur l'immigration explorent les parcours des personnes franchissant les frontières — qu'elles fuient un danger, cherchent une opportunité ou retrouvent leur famille — et examinent comment les nations abordent les questions d'appartenance, de citoyenneté et d'identité. Ces récits vont des témoignages personnels intimes d'individus migrants aux analyses approfondies des politiques, du travail et des forces sociales qui déterminent qui est accueilli et qui est rejeté.

Immigration Résumés de livres

The Emperor of Gladness

par Ocean Vuong

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

3.85

81 000+

Contemporain

Fiction littéraire

Lgbt

Immersif

The Emperor of Gladness

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

par Ocean Vuong 2025 402 pages

3.85

81 000+ évaluations

Contemporain

Fiction littéraire

Lgbt

Dream Count

par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2025

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

3.77

52 000+

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Afrique

Dream Count

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

par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2025 474 pages

3.77

52 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Afrique

Solito

par Javier Zamora • 2022

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

4.48

80 000+

Mémoires

Biographie

Autobiographie

Solito

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

par Javier Zamora 2022 384 pages

4.48

80 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Biographie

Autobiographie

The Happiest Refugee

par Anh Do • 2010

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

4.25

18 000+

Mémoires

Biographie

Autobiographie

The Happiest Refugee

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

par Anh Do 2010 232 pages

4.25

18 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Biographie

Autobiographie

Long Island

par Colm Tóibín • 2024

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

3.70

89 000+

Fiction littéraire

Fiction historique

Irlande

Long Island

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

par Colm Tóibín 2024 294 pages

3.70

89 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Fiction historique

Irlande

Everything Sad Is Untrue

par Daniel Nayeri • 2020

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

4.30

44 000+

Préadolescents

Contemporain

Récit initiatique

Everything Sad Is Untrue

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

par Daniel Nayeri 2020 368 pages

4.30

44 000+ évaluations

Préadolescents

Contemporain

Récit initiatique

Albion's Seed

par David Hackett Fischer • 1989

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

4.38

3 000+

Histoire

Anthropologie

Sociologie

Albion's Seed

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

par David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 pages

4.38

3 000+ évaluations

Histoire

Anthropologie

Sociologie

The Book of Unknown Americans

par Cristina Henríquez • 2014

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

3.90

46 000+

Fiction littéraire

Immigration

Contemporain

The Book of Unknown Americans

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

par Cristina Henríquez 2014 286 pages

3.90

46 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Immigration

Contemporain

Brooklyn

par Colm Tóibín • 2009

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

3.75

100 000+

Fiction historique

Romance

Fiction littéraire

Brooklyn

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

par Colm Tóibín 2009 262 pages

3.75

100 000+ évaluations

Fiction historique

Romance

Fiction littéraire

The Red Umbrella

par Christina Diaz Gonzalez • 2010

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

4.07

5 000+

Fiction historique

Jeune adulte

Historique

The Red Umbrella

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

par Christina Diaz Gonzalez 2010 284 pages

4.07

5 000+ évaluations

Fiction historique

Jeune adulte

Historique

Americanah

par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2013

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

4.31

400 000+

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Afrique

Americanah

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

par Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 477 pages

4.31

400 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Afrique

The New Geography Of Jobs

par Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2 000+

Économie

Business

Sociologie

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

par Enrico Moretti 2012 304 pages

4.03

2 000+ évaluations

Économie

Business

Sociologie

Second Class Citizen

par Buchi Emecheta • 1974

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

4.11

4 000+

Fiction littéraire

Afrique

Féminisme

Second Class Citizen

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

par Buchi Emecheta 1974 174 pages

4.11

4 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Afrique

Féminisme

L'interprète des maladies

par Jhumpa Lahiri • 1999

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

4.18

200 000+

Nouvelles

Fiction littéraire

Littérature

L'interprète des maladies

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

par Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 198 pages

4.18

200 000+ évaluations

Nouvelles

Fiction littéraire

Littérature

Crossing the Wire

par Will Hobbs • 2006

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

3.83

2 000+

Jeune adulte

Immigration

Survie

Crossing the Wire

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

par Will Hobbs 2006 216 pages

3.83

2 000+ évaluations

Jeune adulte

Immigration

Survie

Strike Zone

par Mike Lupica • 2019

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

4.17

397

Sports

Jeune adulte

Contemporain

Strike Zone

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

par Mike Lupica 2019 272 pages

4.17

397 évaluations

Sports

Jeune adulte

Contemporain

Reef

par Romesh Gunesekera • 1994

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

3.76

2 000+

Fiction littéraire

Fiction historique

Récit initiatique

Reef

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

par Romesh Gunesekera 1994 190 pages

3.76

2 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Fiction historique

Récit initiatique

Living Beyond Borders

par Margarita Longoria • 2021

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

4.09

1 000+

Jeune adulte

Anthologies

Nouvelles

Living Beyond Borders

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

par Margarita Longoria 2021 224 pages

4.09

1 000+ évaluations

Jeune adulte

Anthologies

Nouvelles

"They Take Our Jobs!"

par Aviva Chomsky • 2007

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

4.06

500+

Politique

Immigration

Histoire

"They Take Our Jobs!"

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

par Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 pages

4.06

500+ évaluations

Politique

Immigration

Histoire

The Satisfaction Café

par Kathy Wang • 2025

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

3.54

8 000+

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Famille

The Satisfaction Café

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

par Kathy Wang 2025 352 pages

3.54

8 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Famille

The Good Immigrant

par Nikesh Shukla • 2019

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

4.24

2 000+

Essais

Race

Immigration

The Good Immigrant

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

par Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 pages

4.24

2 000+ évaluations

Essais

Race

Immigration

The Distance Between Us

par Reyna Grande • 2012

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

4.37

17 000+

Mémoires

Biographie

Immigration

The Distance Between Us

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

par Reyna Grande 2012 325 pages

4.37

17 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Biographie

Immigration

My Life in Full

par Indra Nooyi • 2021

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

4.24

10 000+

Biographie

Mémoires

Business

My Life in Full

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

par Indra Nooyi 2021 320 pages

4.24

10 000+ évaluations

Biographie

Mémoires

Business

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

par Daisy Hernández • 2014

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

4.12

2 000+

Mémoires

Lgbt

Féminisme

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

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

par Daisy Hernández 2014 185 pages

4.12

2 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Lgbt

Féminisme

Unaccustomed Earth

par Jhumpa Lahiri • 2008

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

4.14

97 000+

Nouvelles

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Unaccustomed Earth

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

par Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 pages

4.14

97 000+ évaluations

Nouvelles

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

All My Rage

par Sabaa Tahir • 2022

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

4.48

65 000+

Jeune adulte

Contemporain

Romance

All My Rage

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

par Sabaa Tahir 2022 376 pages

4.48

65 000+ évaluations

Jeune adulte

Contemporain

Romance

Les mondes que je vois

par Fei-Fei Li • 2023

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

4.31

5 000+

Mémoires

Science

Informatique

Les mondes que je vois

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

par Fei-Fei Li 2023 336 pages

4.31

5 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Science

Informatique

Good People

par Patmeena Sabit

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

4.20

29 000+

Fiction littéraire

Mystère

Contemporain

Immersif

Good People

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

par Patmeena Sabit 2026 400 pages

4.20

29 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Mystère

Contemporain

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

par Jonathan Blitzer • 2024

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

4.48

10 000+

Histoire

Politique

Immigration

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

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

par Jonathan Blitzer 2024 544 pages

4.48

10 000+ évaluations

Histoire

Politique

Immigration

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

par John Fante • 1938

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

4.10

14 000+

Classiques

Fiction littéraire

Romans

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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

par John Fante 1938 266 pages

4.10

14 000+ évaluations

Classiques

Fiction littéraire

Romans

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

par Natalia Sylvester • 2022

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

3.82

3 000+

Jeune adulte

Contemporain

Handicap

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

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

par Natalia Sylvester 2022 352 pages

3.82

3 000+ évaluations

Jeune adulte

Contemporain

Handicap

Undoing Border Imperialism

par Harsha Walia • 2013

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

4.51

500+

Politique

Activisme

Immigration

Undoing Border Imperialism

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

par Harsha Walia 2013 340 pages

4.51

500+ évaluations

Politique

Activisme

Immigration

A Great Country

par Shilpi Somaya Gowda • 2024

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

3.88

9 000+

Contemporain

Fiction littéraire

Famille

A Great Country

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

par Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2024 256 pages

3.88

9 000+ évaluations

Contemporain

Fiction littéraire

Famille

Christ in Concrete

par 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+

Classiques

Fiction historique

Fiction littéraire

Christ in Concrete

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

par Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pages

3.76

1 000+ évaluations

Classiques

Fiction historique

Fiction littéraire

Language City

par Ross Perlin • 2024

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

4.20

500+

Langue

Anthropologie

Histoire

Language City

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

par Ross Perlin 2024 432 pages

4.20

500+ évaluations

Langue

Anthropologie

Histoire

This American Woman

par Zarna Garg • 2025

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

4.32

16 000+

Mémoires

Humour

Comédie

This American Woman

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

par Zarna Garg 2025 320 pages

4.32

16 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Humour

Comédie

Americanized

par Sara Saedi • 2018

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

3.91

3 000+

Mémoires

Immigration

Jeune adulte

Americanized

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

par Sara Saedi 2018 288 pages

3.91

3 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Immigration

Jeune adulte

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

par Scaachi Koul • 2017

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

3.72

13 000+

Essais

Mémoires

Humour

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.

par Scaachi Koul 2017 241 pages

3.72

13 000+ évaluations

Essais

Mémoires

Humour

Orphan Bachelors

par Fae Myenne Ng • 2023

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

3.91

238

Mémoires

Asio-américain

Chine

Orphan Bachelors

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

par Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 pages

3.91

238 évaluations

Mémoires

Asio-américain

Chine

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

par Amy Chua • 2011

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

3.67

54 000+

Mémoires

Parentalité

Culture

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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

par Amy Chua 2011 256 pages

3.67

54 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Parentalité

Culture

Measure of a Man

par Martin Greenfield • 2014

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

4.18

1 000+

Mémoires

Biographie

Histoire

Measure of a Man

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

par Martin Greenfield 2014 250 pages

4.18

1 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Biographie

Histoire

Choice Theory

par William Glasser • 1999

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

4.01

3 000+

Histoire

Politique

Sociologie

Choice Theory

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

par William Glasser 1999 368 pages

4.01

3 000+ évaluations

Histoire

Politique

Sociologie

We Were Dreamers

par Simu Liu • 2022

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

4.33

30 000+

Mémoires

Autobiographie

Canada

We Were Dreamers

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

par Simu Liu 2022 320 pages

4.33

30 000+ évaluations

Mémoires

Autobiographie

Canada

Good Girl

par Aria Aber • 2025

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

3.63

11 000+

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Récit initiatique

Good Girl

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

par Aria Aber 2025 368 pages

3.63

11 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Récit initiatique

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

par Marina Lewycka • 2005

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

3.45

37 000+

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Humour

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

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

par Marina Lewycka 2005 326 pages

3.45

37 000+ évaluations

Fiction littéraire

Contemporain

Humour

Making It in America

par Rachel Slade • 2024

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

3.63

323

Économie

Business

Politique

Making It in America

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

par Rachel Slade 2024 352 pages

3.63

323 évaluations

Économie

Business

Politique

Mother Tongue

par Demetria Martínez • 1990

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

3.82

500+

Fiction historique

Fiction littéraire

Littérature

Mother Tongue

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

par Demetria Martínez 1990 208 pages

3.82

500+ évaluations

Fiction historique

Fiction littéraire

Littérature

Escape from Saddam

par Lewis Alsamari • 2007

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

4.05

270

Biographie

Mémoires

Histoire

Escape from Saddam

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

par Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 pages

4.05

270 évaluations

Biographie

Mémoires

Histoire

Amexica

par Ed Vulliamy • 2010

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

3.86

500+

True Crime

Journalisme

Politique

Amexica

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

par Ed Vulliamy 2010 368 pages

3.86

500+ évaluations

True Crime

Journalisme

Politique

The Next America

par Paul Taylor • 2014

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

3.67

500+

Sociologie

Politique

Économie

The Next America

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

par Paul Taylor 2014 280 pages

3.67

500+ évaluations

Sociologie

Politique

Économie

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