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Resources on Immigration
Last Updated January 5, 2012
Immigration & Citizenship
Alienated : Immigrant Rights, The Constitution, and Equality in America / Romero (2005)
American Passage : The History of Ellis Island / Cannato (2009)
Citizenship and Immigration / Joppke (2010)
International Migration and Citizenship Today / Steiner 2009
U.S. Immigration made easy / Bray (2009)
Central & South American Immigration
City of Dreams: Latino Immigration to Chicago / Cruz (2007)
Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border / Spener (2009)
The Devil's Highway: A True Story / Urrea (2005)
Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Families / Dreby (2010)
Enrique's Journey / Nazario (2007)
Ex Mex : From Migrants to Immigrants / Castaneda (2007)
The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border / Maril (2011)
"I know it's dangerous": Why Mexicans Risk their Lives to Cross the Border / Sheridan (2009)
Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone / Sterling (2010)
Labor & Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network / Gomberg-Muñoz (2011)
Midnight on the Line : The Secret Life of the U.S.-Mexico Border / Gaynor (2009)
Running the Border Gauntlet: The Mexican Migrant Controversy / French (2010)
Why Immigrants come to America : Braceros, Indocumentados, and the Migra / Stout (2008)
The World of Mexican Migrants :The Rock and the Hard Place / Hellman (2007)
Global Perspectives
Diasporas / Dufoix (2008)
International Migration in the Age of Crisis and Globalization: Historical and Recent Experiences. / Solimano(2010)
International Migration in the age of Crisis and Globalization: Historical and Recent Experiences / Solimano (2010)
The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations / Berlin (2010)
The New African Diaspora / Okpewho & Nzegwu (2009)
Paper Citizens: How Illegal Immigrants Acquire Citizenship in Developing Countries / Sadiq (2010)
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe : Immigration, Islam, and the West / Caldwell (2009)
Transnationalism and Society : An Introduction. / Howard (2011)
In America
The Closing of the American Border : Terrorism, Immigration, and Security since 9/11 / Alden (2008)
Debating Immigration / Swain (2007)
From Every End of this Earth : 13 Families and the New Lives they made in America / Roberts (2009)
From Immigrants to Americans : The Rise and Fall of Fitting In / Vigdor (2009)
Hidden in the Heartland: The New Wave of Immigrants and the Challenge to America / Diggs 2011
How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and its Consequences / Cobas, et al (2009)
Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker) / Herman & Smith (2010)
Immigration and the American Dream : Battling the Political Hype and Hysteria / Orchowski (2008)
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America / Ngai 2004
Let Them In : The Case for Open Borders / Riley (2008)
Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Immigration/ / Marquardt, et al. (2011)
The New Case against Immigration : Both Legal and Illegal / Krikorian (2008)
"They take our jobs!" : And 20 other Myths about Immigration / Chomsky (2007)
True American : Language, Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children. (Salomone, 2010)
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives / Orner (2008)
Undocumented Students and the Policies of Wasted Potential. / Lopez (2010)
We are Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream / Perez (2009)
Online Resources
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) [?]
Updates on pending legislation, policy briefs, & advocacy for immigrants.
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. The Institution focuses on a variety of current issues with a focus on consensus building across political and ideological values.
- Breaking the Immigration Stalemate: From Deep Disagreement to Constructive Proposals
- Democracy in the Age of New Media: A Report on the Media and the Immigration Debate
Department of Homeland Security [?]
Variety of reports on Border Security, Immigration Statistics, & Immigration Enforcement.
The Immigration Policy Center (IPC) provides research and analysis about the role of immigrants and immigration policy on U.S. society.
National Council of La Raza [?]
A Latino civil rights and advocacy group. NCLR conducts surveys, publishes reports and issues policies focused on the Hispanic/Latino communities.
Migration Policy Institute [?]
MPI is an independent, non-profit think tank that studies world-wide migration and immigration.
A policy center connected to the Pew Research Center. The Hispanic Center conducts surveys, develops reports and presents policy issues focused on the Hispanic/Latino communities.
Southern Poverty Law Center [?]
The Southern Poverty Law Center in a nonprofit civil rights organization. The SPLC has issued several important studies on immigrants and studies the rise of hate groups associated with anti-immigrant sentiments.
