Emmigration, Immigration & Migration

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Those Who Came Before
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Those Who Came Before

From: Bit Player on Big Stages

In this chapter, Turene traces four French-Canadian family lineages from their arrival in New France during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to their later settlement in Manitoba. 11 $1.10 Add
Three Funerals for my Father

Three Funerals for my Father

Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam

What would you risk to save your children? Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the … 232 View
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tijd/time

tijd/time

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

On photography, and the progress of time. 7 $0.70 Add
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Trại Mát

Trại Mát

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She describes a a short trip to Trại Mát and reminisces on a time when her younger sister got very sick and was treated by her … 7 $0.70 Add
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Turkey

Turkey

From: Exile

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Two Faces

Two Faces

From: Man at the Airport

This chapter details the author’s experiences in Abu Dhabi and Dubai as he tried to make friends and find work. He was in the UAE when the conflict in Syria began. 15 $1.50 Add
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk

Part One

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

Chapter Two is about a writer named Vasyl (Andriovych) Kostashchuk, a writer and relative who remained in Galicia. Discussing his books Volodar dum selians’kykh (Ruler of Peasant Dreams) and Tam, … 17 $1.70 Add
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk
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Two Writers Named Kostashchuk

Part Two

From: Ghosts in a Photograph

Chapter Four focuses on the second Vasyl (Mykolaiovych) Kostashchuk, another relative unknown to them. Discussing his time as a sharpshooter in the post-Second-World-War underground army known as … 13 $1.30 Add
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uier/udder

uier/udder

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

On being Dutch and mixed race, and the reactions this can produce. 5 $0.50 Add
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verzen/verses

verzen/verses

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

In this chapter, the author writes about coming to appreciate the subtle qualities of English. 6 $0.60 Add
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Vượt Biên

Vượt Biên

From: Three Funerals for my Father

This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He executes an escape plan. 6 $0.60 Add
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waarschuwing/warning

waarschuwing/warning

From: Alfabet/Alphabet

"Mother tongue, is this when you’ll surface, under cover of night, in the mind’s somnolent dark?" 3 $0.30 Add
Wanda’s War
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Wanda’s War

An Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal

In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans … 256 View
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War

War

From: Three Funerals for my Father

The author’s father’s ghost recounts life in Đà Lạt and the arrival of war. 9 $0.90 Add
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War and Amnesty
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War and Amnesty

From: Wanda’s War

Chapter 3 details Wanda’s and Casey’s experiences following Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union launched on June 22, 1941. The chapter discusses the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Welcome to Lev, Lemberg, Lwow, Lvov, Lviv . . .

Welcome to Lev, Lemberg, Lwow, Lvov, Lviv . . .

From: Family Ties

This chapter explores how regional Ukrainian nationalism was constructed, and examines stories of family displacement through archival research to clarify contested claims regarding Chrystia Freeland. 17 $1.70 Add