Immigrazione

I libri sull'immigrazione esplorano i viaggi delle persone che attraversano i confini — sia per fuggire dal pericolo, cercare opportunità o riunirsi con la famiglia — e analizzano come le nazioni affrontano le questioni di appartenenza, cittadinanza e identità. Queste storie spaziano da intime narrazioni personali di singoli migranti a ampie analisi di politiche, lavoro e delle forze sociali che determinano chi è accolto e chi è respinto.

Immigrazione Riassunti di libri

The Emperor of Gladness

di Ocean Vuong

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

3.85

81.000+

Contemporanea

Narrativa letteraria

Lgbt

Immersivi

The Emperor of Gladness

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

di Ocean Vuong 2025 402 pagine

3.85

81.000+ valutazioni

Contemporanea

Narrativa letteraria

Lgbt

Dream Count

di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2025

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

3.77

52.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Africa

Dream Count

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

di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2025 474 pagine

3.77

52.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Africa

Solito

di Javier Zamora • 2022

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

4.48

80.000+

Memorie

Biografia

Autobiografia

Solito

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

di Javier Zamora 2022 384 pagine

4.48

80.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Biografia

Autobiografia

The Happiest Refugee

di Anh Do • 2010

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

4.25

18.000+

Memorie

Biografia

Autobiografia

The Happiest Refugee

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

di Anh Do 2010 232 pagine

4.25

18.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Biografia

Autobiografia

Long Island

di Colm Tóibín • 2024

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

3.70

89.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Irlanda

Long Island

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

di Colm Tóibín 2024 294 pagine

3.70

89.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Irlanda

Everything Sad Is Untrue

di Daniel Nayeri • 2020

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

4.30

44.000+

Middle grade

Contemporanea

Formazione

Everything Sad Is Untrue

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

di Daniel Nayeri 2020 368 pagine

4.30

44.000+ valutazioni

Middle grade

Contemporanea

Formazione

Albion's Seed

di David Hackett Fischer • 1989

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

4.38

3.000+

Storia

Antropologia

Sociologia

Albion's Seed

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

di David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 pagine

4.38

3.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Antropologia

Sociologia

The Book of Unknown Americans

di Cristina Henríquez • 2014

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

3.90

46.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Immigrazione

Contemporanea

The Book of Unknown Americans

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

di Cristina Henríquez 2014 286 pagine

3.90

46.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Immigrazione

Contemporanea

Brooklyn

di Colm Tóibín • 2009

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

3.75

100.000+

Narrativa storica

Romanticismo

Narrativa letteraria

Brooklyn

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

di Colm Tóibín 2009 262 pagine

3.75

100.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Romanticismo

Narrativa letteraria

The Red Umbrella

di Christina Diaz Gonzalez • 2010

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

4.07

5.000+

Narrativa storica

Young Adult

Storico

The Red Umbrella

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

di Christina Diaz Gonzalez 2010 284 pagine

4.07

5.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Young Adult

Storico

Americanah

di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2013

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

4.31

400.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Africa

Americanah

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

di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 477 pagine

4.31

400.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Africa

La nuova geografia del lavoro

di Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2.000+

Economia

Business

Sociologia

La nuova geografia del lavoro

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

di Enrico Moretti 2012 304 pagine

4.03

2.000+ valutazioni

Economia

Business

Sociologia

Second Class Citizen

di Buchi Emecheta • 1974

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

4.11

4.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Africa

Femminismo

Second Class Citizen

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

di Buchi Emecheta 1974 174 pagine

4.11

4.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Africa

Femminismo

L'interprete dei malanni

di Jhumpa Lahiri • 1999

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

4.18

200.000+

Racconti

Narrativa letteraria

Letteratura

L'interprete dei malanni

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

di Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 198 pagine

4.18

200.000+ valutazioni

Racconti

Narrativa letteraria

Letteratura

Crossing the Wire

di Will Hobbs • 2006

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

3.83

2.000+

Young Adult

Immigrazione

Sopravvivenza

Crossing the Wire

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

di Will Hobbs 2006 216 pagine

3.83

2.000+ valutazioni

Young Adult

Immigrazione

Sopravvivenza

Strike Zone

di Mike Lupica • 2019

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

4.17

397

Sport

Young Adult

Contemporanea

Strike Zone

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

di Mike Lupica 2019 272 pagine

4.17

397 valutazioni

Sport

Young Adult

Contemporanea

Reef

di Romesh Gunesekera • 1994

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

3.76

2.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Formazione

Reef

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

di Romesh Gunesekera 1994 190 pagine

3.76

2.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Narrativa storica

Formazione

Living Beyond Borders

di Margarita Longoria • 2021

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

4.09

1.000+

Young Adult

Antologie

Racconti

Living Beyond Borders

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

di Margarita Longoria 2021 224 pagine

4.09

1.000+ valutazioni

Young Adult

Antologie

Racconti

"They Take Our Jobs!"

di Aviva Chomsky • 2007

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

4.06

500+

Politica

Immigrazione

Storia

"They Take Our Jobs!"

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

di Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 pagine

4.06

500+ valutazioni

Politica

Immigrazione

Storia

The Satisfaction Café

di Kathy Wang • 2025

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

3.54

8.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Famiglia

The Satisfaction Café

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

di Kathy Wang 2025 352 pagine

3.54

8.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Famiglia

The Good Immigrant

di Nikesh Shukla • 2019

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

4.24

2.000+

Saggi

Razza

Immigrazione

The Good Immigrant

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

di Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 pagine

4.24

2.000+ valutazioni

Saggi

Razza

Immigrazione

The Distance Between Us

di Reyna Grande • 2012

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

4.37

17.000+

Memorie

Biografia

Immigrazione

The Distance Between Us

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

di Reyna Grande 2012 325 pagine

4.37

17.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Biografia

Immigrazione

My Life in Full

di Indra Nooyi • 2021

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

4.24

10.000+

Biografia

Memorie

Business

My Life in Full

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

di Indra Nooyi 2021 320 pagine

4.24

10.000+ valutazioni

Biografia

Memorie

Business

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

di Daisy Hernández • 2014

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

4.12

2.000+

Memorie

Lgbt

Femminismo

A Cup of Water Under My Bed

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

di Daisy Hernández 2014 185 pagine

4.12

2.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Lgbt

Femminismo

Unaccustomed Earth

di Jhumpa Lahiri • 2008

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

4.14

97.000+

Racconti

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Unaccustomed Earth

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

di Jhumpa Lahiri 2008 352 pagine

4.14

97.000+ valutazioni

Racconti

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

All My Rage

di Sabaa Tahir • 2022

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

4.48

65.000+

Young Adult

Contemporanea

Romanticismo

All My Rage

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

di Sabaa Tahir 2022 376 pagine

4.48

65.000+ valutazioni

Young Adult

Contemporanea

Romanticismo

The Worlds I See

di Fei-Fei Li • 2023

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

4.31

5.000+

Memorie

Scienza

Informatica

The Worlds I See

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

di Fei-Fei Li 2023 336 pagine

4.31

5.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Scienza

Informatica

Good People

di Patmeena Sabit

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

4.20

29.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Giallo

Contemporanea

Immersivi

Good People

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

di Patmeena Sabit 2026 400 pagine

4.20

29.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Giallo

Contemporanea

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

di Jonathan Blitzer • 2024

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

4.48

10.000+

Storia

Politica

Immigrazione

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

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

di Jonathan Blitzer 2024 544 pagine

4.48

10.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Politica

Immigrazione

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

di John Fante • 1938

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

4.10

14.000+

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Romanzi

Wait Until Spring, Bandini

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

di John Fante 1938 266 pagine

4.10

14.000+ valutazioni

Classici

Narrativa letteraria

Romanzi

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

di Natalia Sylvester • 2022

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

3.82

3.000+

Young Adult

Contemporanea

Disabilità

Breathe and Count Back from Ten

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

di Natalia Sylvester 2022 352 pagine

3.82

3.000+ valutazioni

Young Adult

Contemporanea

Disabilità

Undoing Border Imperialism

di Harsha Walia • 2013

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

4.51

500+

Politica

Attivismo

Immigrazione

Undoing Border Imperialism

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

di Harsha Walia 2013 340 pagine

4.51

500+ valutazioni

Politica

Attivismo

Immigrazione

A Great Country

di Shilpi Somaya Gowda • 2024

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

3.88

9.000+

Contemporanea

Narrativa letteraria

Famiglia

A Great Country

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

di Shilpi Somaya Gowda 2024 256 pagine

3.88

9.000+ valutazioni

Contemporanea

Narrativa letteraria

Famiglia

Christ in Concrete

di 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+

Classici

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Christ in Concrete

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

di Pietro Di Donato 1937 236 pagine

3.76

1.000+ valutazioni

Classici

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Language City

di Ross Perlin • 2024

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

4.20

500+

Lingua

Antropologia

Storia

Language City

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

di Ross Perlin 2024 432 pagine

4.20

500+ valutazioni

Lingua

Antropologia

Storia

This American Woman

di Zarna Garg • 2025

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

4.32

16.000+

Memorie

Umorismo

Commedia

This American Woman

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

di Zarna Garg 2025 320 pagine

4.32

16.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Umorismo

Commedia

Americanized

di Sara Saedi • 2018

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

3.91

3.000+

Memorie

Immigrazione

Young Adult

Americanized

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

di Sara Saedi 2018 288 pagine

3.91

3.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Immigrazione

Young Adult

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

di Scaachi Koul • 2017

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

3.72

13.000+

Saggi

Memorie

Umorismo

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.

di Scaachi Koul 2017 241 pagine

3.72

13.000+ valutazioni

Saggi

Memorie

Umorismo

Orphan Bachelors

di Fae Myenne Ng • 2023

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

3.91

238

Memorie

Asiatico Americano

Cina

Orphan Bachelors

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

di Fae Myenne Ng 2023 256 pagine

3.91

238 valutazioni

Memorie

Asiatico Americano

Cina

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

di Amy Chua • 2011

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

3.67

54.000+

Memorie

Genitorialità

Culture

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

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

di Amy Chua 2011 256 pagine

3.67

54.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Genitorialità

Culture

Measure of a Man

di Martin Greenfield • 2014

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

4.18

1.000+

Memorie

Biografia

Storia

Measure of a Man

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

di Martin Greenfield 2014 250 pagine

4.18

1.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Biografia

Storia

Choice Theory

di William Glasser • 1999

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

4.01

3.000+

Storia

Politica

Sociologia

Choice Theory

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

di William Glasser 1999 368 pagine

4.01

3.000+ valutazioni

Storia

Politica

Sociologia

We Were Dreamers

di Simu Liu • 2022

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

4.33

30.000+

Memorie

Autobiografia

Canada

We Were Dreamers

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

di Simu Liu 2022 320 pagine

4.33

30.000+ valutazioni

Memorie

Autobiografia

Canada

Good Girl

di Aria Aber • 2025

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

3.63

11.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Formazione

Good Girl

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

di Aria Aber 2025 368 pagine

3.63

11.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Formazione

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

di Marina Lewycka • 2005

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

3.45

37.000+

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Umorismo

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian

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

di Marina Lewycka 2005 326 pagine

3.45

37.000+ valutazioni

Narrativa letteraria

Contemporanea

Umorismo

Making It in America

di Rachel Slade • 2024

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

3.63

323

Economia

Business

Politica

Making It in America

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

di Rachel Slade 2024 352 pagine

3.63

323 valutazioni

Economia

Business

Politica

Mother Tongue

di Demetria Martínez • 1990

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

3.82

500+

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Letteratura

Mother Tongue

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

di Demetria Martínez 1990 208 pagine

3.82

500+ valutazioni

Narrativa storica

Narrativa letteraria

Letteratura

Escape from Saddam

di Lewis Alsamari • 2007

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

4.05

270

Biografia

Memorie

Storia

Escape from Saddam

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

di Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 pagine

4.05

270 valutazioni

Biografia

Memorie

Storia

Amexica

di Ed Vulliamy • 2010

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

3.86

500+

True Crime

Giornalismo

Politica

Amexica

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

di Ed Vulliamy 2010 368 pagine

3.86

500+ valutazioni

True Crime

Giornalismo

Politica

The Next America

di Paul Taylor • 2014

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

3.67

500+

Sociologia

Politica

Economia

The Next America

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

di Paul Taylor 2014 280 pagine

3.67

500+ valutazioni

Sociologia

Politica

Economia

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