From the Bookshelves: The Arrival

 
Here is the perfect gift for the children of immigration law professors — a child’s book called The Arrival.   Here is an abstract of this picture book:  The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem to come from a long forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.

The Arrival, published by Shaun Tan, tackles everything from the push/pull factors of immigration to entry inspection and language translation issues.

Hat tip to Professor Kit Johnson (North Dakota).

KJ