In the News: Immigration

September 8, 2017 | melissa c

Wondering what the deal is with DACA, or "the dreamers," in the news the past few days?  If you'd like to learn more about the history of immigration in the U.S., life as an immigrant in the U.S., or current issues in the debate about immigration, we have resources that can help you. Check out this book list to get started.    

A nation of nations : a great American immigration story by Tom Gjelten
Also available in: e-audiobook
Dreamers : an immigrant generation's fight for their American dream by Eileen Truax
Undocumented : how immigration became illegal by Aviva Chomsky
Shaping our nation : how surges of migration transformed America and its politics by Michael Barone
American passage : the history of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato
Also available in: e-book
We wanted workers : unraveling the immigration narrative by George J Borjas
United States immigration and citizenship : Allan Wernick's guide to the law by Allan Wernick
Coming to America : a history of immigration and ethnicity in American life by Roger Daniels
Border insecurity : why big money, fences, and drones aren't making us safer by Sylvia Longmire
Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America by Juan González
Illegal people : how globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants by David Bacon
How to get a green card by Ilona M. Bray
City of dreams : the 400-year epic history of immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder
"They take our jobs!": and 20 other myths about immigration by Aviva Chomsky
What was Ellis Island? [electronic resource] by Patricia Demuth
Daily life in immigrant America, 1820-1870 by James M Berquist
Daily life in immigrant America, 1870-1920 by June Granatir Alexander
At the edge of a dream : the story of Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side 1880-1920 by Lawrence J. Epstein
Enrique's journey by Sonia Nazario
The new Americans by Ruben Martinez
Integration nation : immigrants, refugees, and America at its best by Susan E Eaton
In the country we love : my family divided by Diane Guerrero
There goes the neighborhood : how communities overcome prejudice and meet the challenge of American immigration by Ali Noorani
Living "illegal" : the human face of unauthorized immigration
The death of Josseline : immigration stories from the Arizona-Mexico borderlands by Margaret Regan
The great departure : mass migration from Eastern Europe and the making of the free world by Tara Zahra
Also available in: e-audiobook
The making of Asian America : a history by Erika Lee
Also available in: e-audiobook
Let them in : the case for open borders by Jason Riley
How many is too many? : the progressive argument for reducing immigration into the United States by Philip Cafaro