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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. This list has always been assembled part…
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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. I was working…
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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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Margaret Kwoka's New Book "Saving FOIA" is a Must-Read + Public Citizen Wins Case to Make BIA Decisions Public
Margaret Kwoka’s new book Saving the Freedom of Information Act examines how government oversight has been undermined by FOIA trying to be everything to…
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5 Books about Immigration and Labor to Add to Your Reading List This Labor Day
Labor Day, which became a holiday in 1894, celebrates the dignity of every worker and the legacy of the worker movement in the United States. But for…
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