Emigration & Immigration

Hard Neighbors follows the people who came to be known as Scotch-Irish and traces their relations with Native Americans, examines their experiences as marginalized people, and demonstrates their roles as protective and disruptive forces on the edge of colonialism. The Scotch-Irish fought Indian wars and shaped the frontier, and their experiences living near and fighting against Indians shaped their identity and their attitudes towards government. They influenced national attitudes and policies, and they transformed Indian people into racial others as they transformed themselves into Americans.

Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC-Berkeley in the aftermath of the shocking murder of Vincent Chin, which shaped the political sensibilities of a new generation of Asian Americans. The essays here, delivered originally as the prestigious Norton Lectures, proffer a new answer to a classic literary question: What does the outsider mean to literary writing?

"Erste Schritte in Deutschland – Anleitung zum Glück, Erfolg und Erfüllung. Die ersten Schritte in einem neuen Land können ohne Orientierung überwältigend wirken. Fühlst du dich unsicher, alleine oder unverstanden? In diesem praktischen Ratgeber erhältst du wertvolle Tipps und Ideen, die dir helfen, deinen Weg zu Erfolg, Glück und Erfüllung in Deutschland zu erleichtern. Mit klaren Handlungsanweisungen und praktischen Beispielen wird der Einstieg in dein neues Leben deutlich einfacher.

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At the core of this debut collection is a question – what is worth holding onto? Through poetic experiments that blend the academic and the artistic, Rhiya Pau queries complex characters and tender landscapes. Routes journeys from Ba's kitchen in Sonia Gardens to Independence hour in Delhi, across the pink shores of Nakuru, to meet a painter on Lee High Road.