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The presented historical source is an extremely interesting letter, written in 1957 by a Polish emigrant, who had held a high-ranking position at the Ministry of Labour and Welfare of the Second Polish Republic. The author writes to his acquaintance describing his wartime path: arrest by the NKVD in Lithuania, imprisonment, exile to the Altai Krai, then his service for the Polish government-in-exile in Slavgorod, Teheran, Isfahan and Beirut, and finally his passage to England, where he made his home after the war.

World War, 1939-1945. --- Deportation. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Polish people.

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Reveals the impossible choices and downright terror mixed-status families often face for their lovedonesLiving in a mixed-status immigrant family might mean that your grandmother could be deported at any moment, your son could be arrested at work, or your mother's deportation hearing is postponed—again. Such uncertainty and fear are the reality of life for mixed-status families—those that include both undocumented immigrants and US citizens. In Contested Americans, Cassaundra Rodriguez explores how members of mixed-status families experience and articulate belonging in the United States. The sixteen million people in the US who fall under this classification share the fear of a family member's possible deportation or the anxiety of leaving behind a child or elderly relative.Rodriguez highlights how different members of the same mixed-status families mediate undocumented statuses while maintaining the collective whole of a family. For many young adults, this may mean negotiating the sponsorship of their immigrant parents, and for the parents, planning for the emotional, physical, and financial well-being of their children in case of deportation.Contested Americans is a timely book, filled with vivid storytelling, that shows how immigration policies, racism, and privilege collide in the backdrop of the lives of millions of mixed-status families.

Immigrant families --- Hispanic Americans --- Deportation --- Noncitizens --- Government policy --- United States --- Emigration and immigration --- Government policy.

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"Even before the former administration upended the asylum process in the US, it was an exacting and drawn-out process that turned away many people. Overloaded courts, constantly changing dates and appointments, and the need to prove oneself the "right" kind of asylum seeker were harrowing enough before adding the language barrier that many faced. Rhoda Kanaaneh became a volunteer translator for Arab plaintiffs and soon began to learn the ins and outs of the system by hearing the lawyers of those who were lucky enough to have them explain how the process worked to their clients. In this book, she follows the cases of four Arabs who sought asylum on the grounds of their gender or sexuality and how they had to demonstrate "the right kind of suffering" for the courts. Suad had to make sense of her confused memories in order to present an ordered story of her forced circumcision and police harassment in Sudan. Fatima had to visit doctors and therapists to document decades of abuse at the hands of her husband, while downplaying the resultant mental illness she suffered. Fadi had to look "gay enough" to qualify for asylum even after documenting his arrest and torture in Jordan because of his homosexuality. Marwa had to downplay her environmental activism while explaining her hardship as a lesbian in a Shiite family in Lebanon. All four of these asylum seekers were ultimately successful after many years, thanks to the help of pro-bono lawyers who taught them how to navigate the system and highlight certain aspects of their lives while hiding others in order to strike the right note for the courts. Kanaaneh uses their stories to open the door to the painful process of asylum, where more fail than succeed. She also describes the unique challenges Arab asylum seekers faced in the post-9/11 United States and what their travails revealed about the country in which they wanted to find refuge"--

Political refugees --- Gay political refugees --- Asylum, Right of --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Right of asylum --- Sanctuary (Law) --- Refugees --- Defection --- Deportation --- Extradition --- Asylum seekers --- Refugees, Political --- Law and legislation

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What becomes of men the US locks up and kicks out? From 2009 to 2020, the US deported more than five million people-over 90 percent of them men. Banished Men tells 186 of their stories. How, it asks, does forced expulsion shape men's lives and sense of themselves? In this book, a team of thirty-one Latinx students and an award-winning scholar of gender and migrant exclusion uncover a harrowing system that weaves together policing, prison, detention, removal, and border militarization-and overwhelmingly targets men. Guards and gangs beat them down, both literally and metaphorically, as if they are no more than vermin or livestock. Their ties with family are severed. In Mexico, they end up banished: in limbo and stripped of humanity. They do not go ";home."; Their fight for new ways of belonging, as people of both ";here"; and ";there,"; forms a devastating, humane, and clear-eyed critique of the violence of deportation.

Deportation --- Male immigrants --- Immigration enforcement --- Violence against --- Immigration law enforcement --- Immigration raids --- Law enforcement --- Immigrant men --- Men immigrants --- Immigrants --- Expulsion --- Emigration and immigration law --- Asylum, Right of --- Extradition --- Refoulement --- Law and legislation

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Illustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging Young immigrant children often do not have the words to express how their lives are shaped by issues of immigration, legal status, and state-sanctioned violence. Yet they are able to communicate its effects on them using art. Based on ten years of work with immigrant children as young as six years old in Arizona and California— and featuring an analysis of three hundred drawings, theater performances, and family interviews—Silvia Rodriguez Vega provides accounts of children’s challenges with deportation and family separation during the Obama and Trump administrations. While much of the literature on immigrant children depicts them as passive, when viewed through this lens they appear as agents of their own stories. The volume provides key insights into how immigrant children in both states presented creative, out-of-the-box, powerful solutions to the dilemmas that anti-immigrant rhetoric and harsh immigration laws present. Through art, they demonstrated a righteous indignation against societal violence, dehumanization, and death as a tool for navigating a racist, anti-immigrant society. When children are the agents of their own stories, they can reimagine destructive situations in ways that adults sometimes cannot, offering us alternatives and hope for a better future. At once devastating and revelatory, Drawing Deportation provides a roadmap for how art can provide a safe and necessary space for vulnerable populations to assert their humanity in a world that would rather divest them of it.

Art therapy for children. --- Arts --- Deportation --- Immigrant children --- Study and teaching --- Psychological aspects. --- Education --- Government policy --- Social conditions. --- Apprehension. --- Arizona. --- Arpaio. --- Art Education. --- Art Methods. --- Art and Healing Praxis. --- Art. --- Cage. --- Change. --- Creativity. --- Critical Education. --- Curriculum. --- Dehumanization. --- Deportation. --- Deportations. --- Detention. --- Discrimination. --- Drawings. --- Education. --- El Teatro Campesino. --- Family Separation. --- Fear. --- Hope. --- Immigrant Children. --- Immigration History. --- Immigration Laws. --- Immigration Policies. --- Immigration. --- Latinx Families. --- Latinx/a/o Children. --- Legal Violence. --- Los Angeles, California. --- Mirroring. --- Nightmare. --- Obama. --- Overcome. --- Pedagogy. --- Phoenix, Arizona. --- Praxis. --- Racism. --- Resilience. --- Resistance. --- Resisting. --- Revelling. --- Sheriff Joe Arpaio. --- South Central Los Angeles. --- South Phoenix. --- Surveillance. --- Theatre of the Oppressed. --- Theatre. --- Trauma. --- Trump. --- Undocumented. --- Violence.