Emmigration, Immigration & Migration
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From ![]() NEW! Mariners AllFrom: Eyes Have Seen |
In this chapter, Anderson recounts his experiences evading the American draft during the Vietnam War, and how he forged a Canadian identity in Montreal’s Little Burgundy neighbourhood. | Fred Anderson | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() MH2284 |
This chapter is told from the author’s perspective. She continues to tell the story of her escape, starting with her arrival in Indonesia. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Mio/MioFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
The author recalls a trip to buy bread, and the power of names. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() My First Funeral |
The ghost of the author’s father narrates this chapter, recounting his life and death. The author’s father died escaping Vietnam, on his way to reunite with his six older children in … | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
![]() NEW! My Road from DamascusA Memoir |
"An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the … | Jamal Saeed | 440 | 2022 | View |
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From ![]() My Second Funeral |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. He is re-buried by his family. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() My Third Funeral |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. His remains are cremated and brought to North America. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() natuur/natureFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
This chapter examines the poems of Ida Gerhardt. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Nikolai Maksymiuk 1886 – 1918From: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Chapter five examines Nikolai Maksymiuk, the author’s maternal grandfather. Discussing his premature death at age 33 in 1918, his home village of Dzhuriv in Galicia, hard living, time … | Myrna Kostash | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Notes on Dates and Place NamesFrom: Ghosts in a Photograph |
Notes on the dates and place names relevant to the text. | Myrna Kostash | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() O CanadaFrom: Man at the Airport |
In the final chapter, Al Kontar writes about his experiences in British Columbia, and his Operation#NotForgotten campaign to aid refugess trapped on Manus and Nauru. | Hassan Al Kontar | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! One Hundred Girls and a ScandalFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 10 discusses the scandal at the Dionne Spinning Mills, in Saint-Georges, Quebec, that Wanda over 100 other Polish women found themselves in when arriving in Canada after May, 1947. The … | Marsha Faubert | 23 | 2023 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() OnwardFrom: Exile |
Belen Fernandez | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Ostarbeiter in GermanyFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 4 discusses Wanda’s experience as a Ostarbeiter (eastern worker), one of the 1.6 million foreigner forced labourers used by the Nazi’s during the Second World War. The … | Marsha Faubert | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() oud/oldFrom: Alfabet/Alphabet |
On the chronic abstraction of using a language learned after childhood. | Sadiqa de Meijer | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Our Polish-Jewish MotherFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj traces the bond in contemporary Israel between a Palestinian Arab family in Beer a-Saba and their Polish-Jewish nanny, Paulina, who became a mother figure to the twins. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |












