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Explores Vietnamese immigration to the United States from the 1960s to the present, and looks at the contributions of Vietnamese Americans to the culture of the United States.

Describes one girl's experience of adapting to a new culture, as she leaves war-torn Beirut to settle in Canada with her family.

Sangoel, who is proud of his rich African heritage, moves to America, and when nobody there can pronounce his name correctly, he fears he will lose his identity.

The author relates his experiences speaking and traveling with an African refugee named Deo, who escaped genocide and earned his doctorate degree in medicine from Columbia Universtity, to Burundi, where Deo built a hospital and reflected on the many deaths in the region.

Explores the cultural history of Central Americans and discusses how Central Americans are among the fastest growing minority within the larger minority of Hispanics in the United States.

Hassan, newly-arrived in the United States and feeling homesick, paints a picture at school that shows his old home in Somalia as well as the reason his family had to leave.

An autobiography in which Mawi Asgedom tells the story of how, at the age of three, he fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother and brother to a Sudanese refugee camp, and later moved to Chicago and earned a full scholarship to Harvard University.

Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear.

Provides an overview of the life and culture of Hmong Americans and presents some information on the history of the Hmong in Laos.

Provides an overview of the life and culture of Somali Americans and presents some information on the history of Somalia.

Presents a history of immigrants and refugees to America and examines their reasons for leaving their own country, the types of immigrants who have sought asylum in the U.

Presents a comprehensive study of Central American immigration to the United States, and discusses the history of the Americas, conflict in South America, and contributions to American society and culture.

After the upheaval of the Vietnam War reaches them, twelve-year-old Kia and her Hmong family flee from the mountains of Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually to the alien world of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Presents twenty informational essays on the Vietnamese experience in America, first-person accounts by Vietnamese immigrants, and biographies of accomplished Vietnamese Americans, and includes an introduction, chronology, and list of further resources.

Teenagers from India discuss why their families left that country and how they have adjusted to life in the United States.