Asian Migration Books: East Library Asian Migration Booklist

Tells a contemporary immigration story of heartbreaking struggle and wild success. Ah Kim, 11, leaves Hong Kong in the 1980s and moves with Ma into a freezing Brooklyn apartment infested with roaches and rats. After school she helps Ma reach her quota in a clothing factory in Chinatown, sometimes until midnight. Eventually Kim gets into a top high school and then into Yale. Success, however, brings the difficulty of not fitting in.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

When her family emigrates from the Philippines to San Francisco, California, fourteen-year-old Vicenza Arambullo struggles to fit in at her exclusive, all-girl private school.

Four Chinese women in 1949 fled warfare in their homeland and came to San Francisco where they instituted a weekly ritual: gathering--even in the midst of sorrow--to celebrate life, play jah-jongg, and tell "stories.".

In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.

Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie, who was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place. Amy flies to the last place Sylvie was seen, retracing her sister's movements. It seems Sylvie kept painful secrets that reveal more about Amy's family than she ever could have imagined

A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.,As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made.

Young Mai and her family embark on a dangerous sea voyage from Vietnam to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government.

A memoir of growing up in North Korea during the repressive regime of Kim Jong II. It was only when faced with death by starvation that the family ultimately made the decision to escape to China in 1998 when Hyok was 13 years old. They lived like "hunted animals" for four years in China, always fearing deportation, until finally reaching South Korea where Hyok was able to share his remarkable saga.

The memoir of a twelve-year-old boy who grew up in North Korea looks at how he was forced to live on the streets, fend for himself, and live with a gang after his parents disappeared.

An anthology [of prose and poetry] documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century ... whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth.