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Immigrant Detention in Focus: The Unconventional Photography of Greg Constantine
Greg Constantine's "Seven Doors" project captures the lives and stories behind immigrant detention in the United States and around the world through…
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Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. Plus: sign…
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Asylum System Fails Women Facing Violence (New Book 📚 + Event 📆)
A powerful new book by Professors Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin, examines stories of trauma, neglect, and resilience among women seeking asylum in…
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Immigration Book Round-Up, March 2024 Edition
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with 20 book recommendations below. Plus: find…
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2024 Immigration Book Roundup: Reader contributions needed! 📚 (& enter to win a free book)
Every year I put together a list of the latest and greatest books about immigration drawn from my reading and your contributions. This is a great way…
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Rethinking the Criminal Alien: Insights from "Welcome the Wretched" – A Book Review
"Welcome the Wretched", a new book by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, argues for a paradigm shift in popular thinking about 'criminal aliens.'
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Why Asylum Matters: The Story of Edafe Okporo
This new memoir by a Nigerian asylum seeker reminds us of what is at stake in Congress's attempts this week to shape the future of the asylum system.
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"What does it mean to fall in love in a world divided by passports?"
Anna Lekas Miller's new book "Love Across Borders" tells the stories of international couples fighting to stay together – including her own.
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Immigration Reading List Summer 2023 (Reader Contributions)
Looking for a good book about immigration? Readers contributed over two dozen books they love and endorse to create an eclectic literature list to…
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Reader contributions needed! What are your most highly-recommended books about immigration? 📚
Every summer I put together a list of new books about immigration that were published in the last year.
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7 Books that Will Help you Understand Immigration
I originally published this post in 2020 in the middle of the pandemic to highlight books that had come out very recently at the time.
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My Conversation with Reece Jones about His New Book “Nobody is Protected” (Video Available)
Yesterday evening, Reece Jones and I sat down to talk about his new book “Nobody is Protected” at his book launch event hosted by Politics & Prose in…
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