The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic St...
Isabel WilkersonIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for norther...
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: On...
Melissa FlemingThe stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit.Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight―just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around―nineteen-year-old Doaa...
The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the G...
Atossa AbrahamianThe buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawye...
The Penguin Book of Migration Literat...
Dohra AhmadThe first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything InsideA Penguin ClassicEvery...
Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant S...
Cristina BeltránWhy are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives? More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was alre...
A Land of Hard Edges: Serving the Front Lines of the Border is a series of true stories and personal reflections by Peg Bowden, a retired nurse, who volunteers at a migrant shelter on the Mexico border. The author lives in the Arizona...
"They Take Our Jobs!" REV: And 20 Oth...
Aviva ChomskyRevised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations.Aviva Chomsky dismantles twenty-one of the most widespread and pernicious ...
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our...
Paul CollierIt is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting t...
Out of Many, One: Portraits of Americ...
CrownIn this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation. ...
From the Dissident Right II: Essays 2...
John DerbyshireThis book is mainly a collection of speeches made and essays published in 2013. Most of the material appeared on VDARE.com, an online magazine dedicated to frank discussion of the National Question, which embraces issues of immigratio...
Home: A Very Short Introduction
Michael Allen FoxThoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internat...
American Immigration: A Very Short In...
David A. GerberAmericans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. A thoughtful loo...
After the Last Border: Two Families a...
Jessica GoudeauThe story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuriesyet Am...
A Beginner's Guide to America: For th...
Roya HakakianA stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of huma...
Shelter: Notes from a Detained Migran...
Arturo Hernandez-SametierIn this rare account from within ICE detention facilities, fourteen children are followed from their arrest by U.S. Border Patrol to the day they exit facilities for unaccompanied minors. Preschoolers and teenagers, the kids offer a r...
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Ara...
Deepa Iyer"Powerful…Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back. [She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience." —The Washington PostThe ...
Decolonization: A Very Short Introduc...
Dane Keith KennedyMillions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independe...
"In this book, President Kennedy tells us what immigrants have done for America, and what America has done for its immigrants. It is one of the dramatic success stories of world history.... It can stand as a testament to a cause ...
The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can ...
Claudia KolkerDo you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? How about someone to deliver a delicious, piping hot home-cooked meal, just like your mother's, right to your front d...
The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodgi...
Oscar MartinezOne day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished...
Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey t...
Todd MillerIs it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival?Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision—and work tow...
We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of ...
Agus MoralesNever in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home—more than 65 million globally. Unsparing, outspoken, vital, We Are Not Refugees tells the stories of many of these displaced, who have n...
There Goes the Neighborhood: How Comm...
Ali NooraniA leading advocate for immigration reform interviews a wide range of citizens from communities throughout the nation to gauge the level of acceptance of new immigrants.This compelling approach to the immigration debate takes the reade...
Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets)
Jose Olivarez"Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it." ―Eve Ewing, author of Electric ArchesIn this stunning debut, poet...
Detained and Deported: Stories of Imm...
Margaret ReganAn intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration...
The Death of Josseline: Immigration S...
Margaret ReganDispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along t...
Arrival City: How the Largest Migrati...
Doug SaundersA powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today. For the fi...
How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Sto...
Eileen TruaxIn an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.Dreamers and their allies, thos...
Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist...
Harsha Walia"Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America's most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tr...
Somewhere in the Unknown World
Kao Kalia YangFrom “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomec...