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Finding Home

The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees

Jen Sookfong Lee

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ca. 14,99

Orca Book Publishers img Link Publisher

Kinder- und Jugendbücher / Sachbücher / Sachbilderbücher

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Key Selling Points

  • Finding Home is a critical look at the history of human migration and the realities of being an immigrant or refugee today.
  • The topic is timely, with asylum seekers being detained and featuring in elections around the world.
  • We are in the worst humanitarian crisis in history, with the highest number of refugees, asylum seekers, and IDPs since World War II.
  • Featuring stories of immigrants and refugees from around the world, Finding Home puts a face on human migration and helps children develop empathy for people who appear different from them.
  • Award-winning author Jen Sookfong Lee’s experiences growing up as the child of immigrants in a diverse neighborhood form the backbone of this book.
  • This is the first book in a new middle-grade nonfiction series called Orca Think, which introduces readers to the issues making headlines in the world today with the goal of creating better citizens.

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Schlagwörter

diversity, marginalization, colonial, armed conflict, human trafficking, ownvoices, emigration, MESH, inclusion and equality, media literacy, natural disasters, undocumented, illegal migrants, refugees, migrants, decolonization, push and pull, human rights, slavery, history, United Nations, asylum seekers, famine, migration, child soldiers, ethics, colonization, humanitarian crisis, forcibly displaced persons, refugee camp, indentured laborers, resettlement, mass migration, sociology, war, immigration, stateless persons