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Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
Edwidge Danticat (Leslie Staub)
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2015
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Breath, Eyes, Memory: 20th Anniversary Edition
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Claire of the Sea Light
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The Farming of Bones: A Novel
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American Gulag : Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons
Mark Dow
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Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America
Ruben G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes
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The Children of NAFTA : Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
David Bacon
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No One Is Illegal : Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis
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Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society
Irina Todorova, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, and Carola Suárez-Orozco
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Nadie es ilegal: Combatiendo el Racismo y la Violencia de Estado en la Frontera
Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon
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Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws
Kevin Johnson
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Immigrants and the Right to Stay (Boston Review Books)
Joseph H. Carens
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Mexican Voices of the Border Region: Mexicans and Mexican Americans Speak about Living along the Wall (Voices Of Latin American Life)
Laura Velasco Ortiz, Oscar F. Contreras, and Sandra del Castillo
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The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Tyche Hendricks
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Latinos in American Society: Families and Communities in Transition
Ruth Enid Zambrana
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Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America
Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad
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Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico
Debra Lattanzi Shutika
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Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa and Mim Eichler Rivas
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Border Wars (Boston Review Books)
Tom Barry
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"Nos Quitan Nuestros Trabajos!": y 20 mitos mas sobre la inmigracion (Spanish Edition)
Aviva Chomsky
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A People's Citizenship Guide
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez
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Fields of Resistance: The Struggle of Florida's Farmworkers for Justice
Silvia Giagnoni
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Undoing Border Imperialism
Harsha Walia
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Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor
Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
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The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Mimi Thi Nguyen (Author)
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Presente!: Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s En La Lucha Por La Justicia Racial
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This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia
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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
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The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Peter Eichstaedt
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Amor and Exile: True Stories of Love Across America's Borders
Nathaniel Hoffman and Nicole Salgado
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Culling the Masses
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"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Aviva Chomsky
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Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State
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Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border
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White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics
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Skills of the "Unskilled": Work and Mobility Among Mexican Migrants
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Whose Child Am I?
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Undocumented - The Architecture Of Migrant Detention
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Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
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Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America
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The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000 Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire
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They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Injury, Illness, and Illegality Among U.s. Farmworkers
Sarah B. Horton
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Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940
Marcella Bencivenni
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Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality Among Transnational Mexicans
Deborah A. Boehm
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Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America
John Hultgren
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Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants
Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona Abo-Zena, and Amy Marks
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Deported: Policing Immigrants, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism
Tanya Golash-Boza
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The Rhetorics of US Immigration: Identity, Community, Otherness
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Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-first Century Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley
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Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
Valeria Luiselli
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A Short Border Handbook: An Immigrant's Tale
Gazmend Kapllani
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The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Peter Eichstaedt
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Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
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The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
Francisco CantÚ
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Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border
John Moore
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Unaccompanied Young Migrants: Identity, Care and Justice
Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta, and Katie Willis
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Welcoming New Americans?: Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation
Abigail Fisher Williamson
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Unaccompanied
Javier Zamora
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The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
Nikesh Shukla (Editor) and Chimene Suleyman (Editor)
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Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement
Neeraj Kaushal
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Green Card STEM Voices : Stories from Minnesota Immigrants Working in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Tea Rozman Clark
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto
Suketu Mehta
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee
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Baby Jails
Philip G. Schrag
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Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary
A. Naomi Paik
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Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas
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Against the Deportation Terror
Rachel Ida Buff
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Andrew Herscher
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The Shadow of El Centro
Jessica Ordaz
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My Two Border Towns
David Bowles and Erika Meza
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The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal
Ethan Blue
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Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance
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Once I Was You -- Adapted for Young Readers: Finding My Voice and Passing the Mic
Maria Hinojosa
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Essential Work, Disposable Workers
Mostafa Henaway and Harsha Walia
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Once I Was You: A Memoir
Maria Hinojosa
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The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
Saket Soni
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Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
Sally Hayden
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Brown Boy: A Memoir
Omer Aziz
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Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation: The Alchemy Lecture 2022
Dele Adeyemo, Christina Sharpe, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Rinaldo Walcott, and Christina Sharpe (Introduction)
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Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families: Culturally Responsive Practice
Alan J. Dettlaff (Editor) and Rowena Fong (Editor)
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Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries
Immanuel Ness
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Peter Orner (Editor)
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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
Sonia Shah
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Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal
Aviva Chomsky
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Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream
Blair Imani
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The Case for Open Borders
John Washington
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Not A Nation of Immigrants
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Border Abolition Now
Sara Riva (Editor), Simon Campbell (Editor), Brian Whitener (Editor), and Kathryn Medien (Editor)
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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles 1771-1965
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
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Mis Dos Pueblos Fronterizos
David Bowles and Erika Meza
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Birth in Times of Despair: Reproductive Violence on the US-Mexico Border
Carina Heckert
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The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Petra Molnar and E. Tendayi Achiume (Foreword)
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Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border
Ieva Jusionyte
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Threshold: Emergency Responders on the Us-Mexico Border (California Public Anthropology #41))
Ieva Jusionyte
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The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial
Maya Pagni Barak
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Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Aviva Chomsky
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The Border Reader
Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza
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This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror
Moustafa Bayoumi
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Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America
David H. T. Wong
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Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood
Kimberly D. McKee
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Exclusion and the Chinese American Story
Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (Voice of Witness)
Luis Alberto Urrea and Peter Orner
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The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Oscar Martinez
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Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Reece Jones
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Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism
Nisha Kapoor
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We Built the Wall: How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond
Eileen Truax
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All-American Nativism
Daniel Denvir
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Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
Jacob Soboroff
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Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity
Nishant Upadhyay
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The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion
Ivan Chaar Lopez
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Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley
Shalini Shankar
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14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
DW Gibson
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Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
Ieva Jusionyte
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Borderlands and the Mexican American Story
David Dorado Romo
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
Jason De Leaon (Author)
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat
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Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth M. Holmes and Jorge Ramirez-Lopez
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Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence
Mizue Aizeki (Editor), Matt Mahmoudi (Editor), Coline Schupfer (Editor), and Ruha Benjamin (Foreword)
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The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
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Migritude
Shailja Patel
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Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
Hannah Moushabeck and Reem Madooh (Illustrator)
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