The Best Books About Immigration
“What are the best fiction and nonfiction books about Immigration & the Immigration Experience?” We looked at 712 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
Below you will find the top 50 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Immigrant” book lists. The remaining 650+ books, as well as the lists we used to aggregate can be found in alphabetical on the bottom of the page.
Happy Scrolling!
Top 50 Books About Immigrants (Fiction & Nonfiction)
50 .) American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Lists It Appears On:
- OEDb
- Tenement
Jin Wang starts at a new school where he’s the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn’t want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because he’s in love with an all-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy: great at basketball, popular with the girls. But his obnoxious Chinese cousin Chin-Kee’s annual visit is such a disaster that it ruins Danny’s reputation at school, leaving him with no choice but to transfer somewhere he can start all over again. The Monkey King has lived for thousands of years and mastered the arts of kung fu and the heavenly disciplines. He’s ready to join the ranks of the immortal gods in heaven. But there’s no place in heaven for a monkey. Each of these characters cannot help himself alone, but how can they possibly help each other? They’re going to have to find a way―if they want fix the disasters their lives have become.
49 .) Americanah by Chimamanda Adichie
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- Goodreads
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.
48 .) Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States by Hiroshi Motomura
Lists It Appears On:
- Books For Understanding
- Bustle
Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially being treated as future citizens–Americans in waiting. Challenging current conceptions, the author deftly uncovers how this view, once so central to law and policy, has all but vanished. Motomura explains how America could create a more unified society by recovering this lost history and by giving immigrants more, but at the same time asking more of them. A timely, panoramic chronicle of immigration and citizenship in the United States, Americans in Waiting offers new ideas and a fresh perspective on current debates.
47 .) Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
Lists It Appears On:
- Brightly
- Colours Of Us
Little Ut from Vietnam wins her schoolmates over with kindness and sensitivity.
46 .) Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier by D. Robert DeChaine
Lists It Appears On:
- Books For Understanding
- London School Of Economics
“Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experiences of citizenship and identity.
The border’s rhetorical significance is nowhere more apparent, nor its effects more concentrated, than on the frontier between the United States and Mexico. Often understood as an unruly boundary in dire need of containment from the ravages of criminals, illegal aliens, and other undesirable threats to the national body, this geopolitical locus exemplifies how normative constructions of “proper”; border relations reinforce definitions of US citizenship, which in turn can lead to anxiety, unrest, and violence centered around the struggle to define what it means to be a member of a national political community.”
45 .) Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- OEDb
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.
44 .) Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Lists It Appears On:
- Flavorwire
- OEDb
When Henry Roth published his debut novel Call It Sleep in 1934, it was greeted with considerable critical acclaim though, in those troubled times, lackluster sales. Only with its paperback publication thirty years later did this novel receive the recognition it deserves―–and still enjoys. Having sold-to-date millions of copies worldwide, Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative” child coming of age in the slums of New York.
43 .) Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America’s Illegal Aliens by Ted Conover
Lists It Appears On:
- Boston Globe
- Bustle
To discover what becomes of Mexicans who come illegally to the United States, Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, traveling and working across America for more than a year. This is the chronicle of his journey.
42 .) Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Brightly
Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about this essential American subject.
41 .) Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Lists It Appears On:
- Latina
- The Cut
Esperanza thought she’d always live with her family on their ranch in Mexico–she’d always have fancy dresses, a beautiful home, and servants. But a sudden tragedy forces Esperanza and Mama to flee to California during the Great Depression, and to settle in a camp for Mexican farm workers. Esperanza isn’t ready for the hard labor, financial struggles, or lack of acceptance she now faces. When their new life is threatened, Esperanza must find a way to rise above her difficult circumstances–Mama’s life, and her own, depend on it.
40 .) Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Lists It Appears On:
- Just Browsing
- Goodreads
“In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since.
Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas’s wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot.”
39 .) Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- Goodreads
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
38 .) Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
Lists It Appears On:
- The Best Children’s Books
- Brightly
Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’ attention and hearts. Winner of the 1994 Caldecott Medal, it remains as historically relevant and emotionally engaging as ever.
37 .) House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- OEDb
“A former colonel in the Iranian Air Force yearns to restore his family’s dignity. A recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to the one thing she has left. And her lover, a married cop, is driven to extremes to win her love.
In this masterpiece of American realism and Shakespearean consequence, Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters―people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on―careen toward inevitable conflict, their tragedy painting a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today.”
36 .) How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands by Susan Eckstein and Adil Najam
Lists It Appears On:
- Books For Understanding
- London School Of Economics
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on the varied impacts immigrants have had in China, India, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique, and Turkey. One contributor examines the role Indians who worked in Silicon Valley played in shaping the structure, successes, and continued evolution of India’s IT industry. Another traces how Salvadoran immigrants extend U.S. gangs and their brutal violence to El Salvador and neighboring countries. The tragic situation in Mozambique of economically desperate émigrés who travel to South Africa to work, contract HIV while there, and infect their wives upon their return is the subject of another essay. Taken together, the essays show the multiple ways countries are affected by immigration. Understanding these effects will provide a foundation for future policy reforms in ways that will strengthen the positive and minimize the negative effects of the current mobile world.
35 .) I’m New Here by Anne Sibley O’Brien
Lists It Appears On:
- Colours Of Us
- The Cut
“Three students are immigrants from Guatemala, Korea, and Somalia and have trouble speaking, writing, and sharing ideas in English in their new American elementary school. Through self-determination and with encouragement from their peers and teachers, the students learn to feel confident and comfortable in their new school without losing a sense of their home country, language, and identity.
Young readers from all backgrounds will appreciate this touching story about the assimilation of three immigrant students in a supportive school community. “
34 .) Illegal by Bettina Restrepo
Lists It Appears On:
- Latina
- Nerdy Book Club
“A promise.
Quinceañera.
A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . .
Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved Mexico in search of work, Nora stays behind. She fights to make sense of her loss while living in poverty—waiting for her father’s return and a better day. When the letters and money stop coming, Nora decides that she and her mother must look for him in Texas. After a frightening experience crossing the border, the two are all alone in a strange place. Now, Nora must find the strength to survive while aching for small comforts: friends, a new school, and her precious quinceañera.”
33 .) Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai
Lists It Appears On:
- Books For Understanding
- Boston Globe
This book traces the origins of the “illegal alien” in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy―a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s―its statutory architecture, judicial genealogies, administrative enforcement, differential treatment of European and non-European migrants, and long-term effects. She shows that immigration restriction, particularly national-origin and numerical quotas, remapped America both by creating new categories of racial difference and by emphasizing as never before the nation’s contiguous land borders and their patrol.
32 .) My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits
Lists It Appears On:
- Colours Of Us
- Tenement
“Getting to feel at home in a new country
Yoon’s name means “”shining wisdom,”” and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to write it in English. In English, all the lines and circles stand alone, which is just how Yoon feels in the United States. Yoon isn’t sure that she wants to be YOON. At her new school, she tries out different names―maybe CAT or BIRD. Maybe CUPCAKE!
Helen Recorvits’s spare and inspiring story about a little girl finding her place in a new country is given luminous pictures filled with surprising vistas and dreamscapes by Gabi Swiatkowska.”
31 .) My New American Life by Francine Prose
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- Flavorwire
Francine Prose captures contemporary America at itsmost hilarious and dreadful in My New American Life, a darkly humorousnovel of mismatched aspirations, Albanian gangsters, and the ever-elusiveAmerican dream. Following her New York Times bestselling novels BlueAngel and A Changed Man, Prose delivers the darkly humorous storyof Lula, a twenty-something Albanian immigrant trying to find stability andcomfort in New York City in the charged aftermath of 9/11. Set at the frontlines of a cultural war between idealism and cynicism, inalienable rights andimplacable Homeland Security measures, My New American Life is a movingand sardonic journey alongside a cast of characters exploring what it means tobe American.
30 .) My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald
Lists It Appears On:
- Colours Of Us
- The Cut
“Cartwheel moves to a new country with her auntie, and everything is strange: the animals, the plants—even the wind. An old blanket gives Cartwheel comfort when she’s sad—and a new blanket just might change her world.
This multicultural story of friendship is about leaving home, moving to a foreign and strange place, and finding a new friend. It’s a story for all who have experienced change. Irena Kobald’s poetic text, paired with Kate Greenaway medalist Freya Blackwood’s powerful paintings, renders an emotional and heart-warming story about two children from diverse backgrounds coming together to become new friends.”
29 .) Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America by Peter Schrag
Lists It Appears On:
- Books For Understanding
- Boston Globe
In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over the same questions about who exactly is fit for citizenship. He finds that nativism has long colored our national history, and that the fear—and loathing—of newcomers has provided one of the faultlines of American cultural and political life. Schrag describes the eerie similarities between the race-based arguments for restricting Irish, German, Slav, Italian, Jewish, and Chinese immigrants in the past and the arguments for restricting Latinos and others today. He links the terrible history of eugenic “science” to ideas, individuals, and groups now at the forefront of the fight against rational immigration policies. Not Fit for Our Society makes a powerful case for understanding the complex, often paradoxical history of immigration restriction as we work through the issues that inform, and often distort, the debate over who can become a citizen, who decides, and on what basis.
28 .) One Green Apple by Eve Bunting
Lists It Appears On:
- Brightly
- Colours Of Us
Farah feels alone, even when surrounded by her classmates. She listens and nods but doesn’t speak. It’s hard being the new kid in school, especially when you’re from another country and don’t know the language. Then, on a field trip to an apple orchard, Farah discovers there are lots of things that sound the same as they did at home, from dogs crunching their food to the ripple of friendly laughter. As she helps the class make apple cider, Farah connects with the other students and begins to feel that she belongs.
27 .) Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale by Duncan Tonatiuh
Lists It Appears On:
- Colours Of Us
- Brightly
In this allegorical picture book, a young rabbit named Pancho eagerly awaits his papa’s return. Papa Rabbit traveled north two years ago to find work in the great carrot and lettuce fields to earn money for his family. When Papa does not return, Pancho sets out to find him. He packs Papa’s favorite meal—mole, rice and beans, a heap of warm tortillas, and a jug of aguamiel—and heads north. He meets a coyote, who offers to help Pancho in exchange for some of Papa’s food. They travel together until the food is gone and the coyote decides he is still hungry . . . for Pancho!
26 .) Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone
Lists It Appears On:
- Tenement
- The Best Children’s Books
“In the tradition of Lois Lowry and Paul Fleischman, Elisa Bartone’s Caldecott Honor-winning book gives children a glimpse into American history and the immigrant experience.
This is the story of Peppe, who becomes a lamplighter to help support his immigrant family in turn-of-the-century New York City, despite his papa’s disapproval. Peppe’s family is very poor, and though he is just a boy he needs to find work. Being a lamplighter is not the job his father had dreamed of for Peppe, but when Peppe’s job helps save his little sister, he earns the respect of his entire family.”
25 .) The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands by Margaret Regan
Lists It Appears On:
- Boston Globe
- Bustle
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are the most stringent in the nation. And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.
24 .) The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- Just Browsing
In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the “Devil’s Highway.” Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a “book of the year” in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
23 .) The Good Braider by Terry Farish
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- Nerdy Book Club
In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family’s journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finally to Portland, Maine. Here, in the sometimes too close embrace of the local Southern Sudanese Community, she dreams of South Sudan while she tries to navigate the strange world of America—a world where a girl can wear a short skirt, get a tattoo, or even date a boy; a world that puts her into sharp conflict with her traditional mother who, like Viola, is struggling to braid together the strands of a displaced life. Terry Farish’s haunting novel is not only a riveting story of escape and survival, but the universal tale of a young immigrant’s struggle to build a life on the cusp of two cultures.
22 .) The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- OEDb
“Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero.
Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous – it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.”
21 .) The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- OEDb
Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who’s “saying” the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. “To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.” Forty years later the stories and history continue.
20 .) The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Lists It Appears On:
- Brightly
- Colours Of Us
“The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?
Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce your name? Having just moved from Korea, Unhei is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of school, she tells the class that she will choose a name by the following week. Her new classmates are fascinated by this no-name girl and decide to help out by filling a glass jar with names for her to pick from. But while Unhei practices being a Suzy, Laura, or Amanda, one of her classmates comes to her neighborhood and discovers her real name and its special meaning. On the day of her name choosing, the name jar has mysteriously disappeared. Encouraged by her new friends, Unhei chooses her own Korean name and helps everyone pronounce it—Yoon-Hey.”
19 .) The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Lists It Appears On:
- Latina
- Nerdy Book Club
“In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía’s parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States—on their own.
Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life? Will she ever see her home or her parents again? And if she does, will she still be the same girl?”
18 .) The Russian Debutante’s Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
Lists It Appears On:
- OEDb
- Flavorwire
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook introduces Vladimir Girshkin, one of the most original and unlikely heroes of recent times. The twenty-five-year-old unhappy lover to a fat dungeon mistress, affectionately nicknamed “Little Failure” by his high-achieving mother, Vladimir toils his days away as a lowly clerk at the bureaucratic Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society. When a wealthy but psychotic old Russian war hero appears, Vladimir embarks on an adventure of unrelenting lunacy that takes us from New York’s Lower East Side to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava–the Eastern European Paris of the nineties. With the help of a murderous but fun-loving Russian mafioso, Vladimir infiltrates the Prava expat community and launches a scheme as ridiculous as it is brilliant.
17 .) The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- OEDb
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
16 .) Two White Rabbits by Jairo Buitrago
Lists It Appears On:
- Colours Of Us
- The Cut
“In this moving and timely story, a young child describes what it is like to be a migrant as she and her father travel north toward the U.S. border.
They travel mostly on the roof of a train known as The Beast, but the little girl doesn’t know where they are going. She counts the animals by the road, the clouds in the sky, the stars. Sometimes she sees soldiers. She sleeps, dreaming that she is always on the move, although sometimes they are forced to stop and her father has to earn more money before they can continue their journey.
As many thousands of people, especially children, in Mexico and Central America continue to make the arduous journey to the U.S. border in search of a better life, this is an important book that shows a young migrant’s perspective.”
15 .) When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
Lists It Appears On:
- The Best Children’s Books
- The Cut
When a young girl from a poor eastern European village learns that she must leave her beloved grandmother for a new life – and a new love – in America, they both feel that their hearts will break. The sure and inspired narrative by award-winning author Amy Hest is paired with paintings by P.J. Lynch that glow with warmth and carefully observed detail, creating an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience.
14 .) What Is the What by Dave Eggers
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- OEDb
- Tenement
What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.
13 .) Toward A Better Life: America’s New Immigrants in Their Own Words from Ellis Island to the Present by Peter Morton Coan
Lists It Appears On:
- Bustle
- The New York Times
- Boston Globe
“This book offers a balanced, poignant, and often moving portrait of America’s immigrants over more than a century. The author has organized the book by decades so that readers can easily find the time period most relevant to their experience or that of family members. The first part covers the Ellis Island era, the second part America’s new immigrants—from the closing of Ellis Island in 1955 to the present. Also included is a comprehensive appendix of statistics showing immigration by country and decade from 1890 to the present, a complete list of famous immigrants, and much more.
This rewarding, engrossing volume documents the diverse mosaic of America in the words of the people from many lands, who for more than a century have made our country what it is today. It distills the larger, hot-topic issue of national immigration down to the personal level of the lives of those who actually lived it.”
12 .) The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- Goodreads
- Flavorwire
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works — and only a handful of collections — to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.
11 .) The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- Flavorwire
- OEDb
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
10 .) The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- Goodreads
- Latina
When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America. The Book of Unknown Americans is a stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American.
9 .) The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Lists It Appears On:
- BuzzFeed
- Goodreads
- OEDb
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again.
8 .) My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Lists It Appears On:
- OEDb
- Goodreads
- Flavorwire
“My Ántonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather’s childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather’s earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants. Her story is told through the eyes of Jim Burden, a neighbor who will befriend Ántonia, teach her English, and follow the remarkable story of her life.
Working in the fields of waving grass and tall corn that dot the Great Plains, Ántonia forges the durable spirit that will carry her through the challenges she faces when she moves to the city. But only when she returns to the prairie does she recover her strength and regain a sense of purpose in life. In the quiet, probing depth of Willa Cather’s art, Ántonia’s story becomes a mobbing elegy to those whose persistence and strength helped build the American frontier.”
7 .) Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lists It Appears On:
- Tenement
- Goodreads
- OEDb
Navigating between the Indian traditions they’ve inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In “A Temporary Matter,” published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant. She is an important and powerful new voice.
6 .) How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
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- OEDb
- BuzzFeed
- Goodreads
“Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters recounting their adventures growing up in two cultures. Selected as a Notable Book by both the New York Times and the American Library Association, it won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for books with a multicultural perspective and was chosen by New York librarians as one of twenty-one classics for the twenty-first century. Ms. Alvarez was recently honored with the 2013 National Medal of Arts for her extraordinary storytelling.
In this debut novel, the García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow a tyrannical dictator is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wild and wondrous and not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways, but the girls try find new lives: by forgetting their Spanish, by straightening their hair and wearing fringed bell bottoms. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents sets the sisters free to tell their most intimate stories about how they came to be at home—and not at home—in America.”
5 .) Here I Am by Patti Kim
Lists It Appears On:
- Brightly
- Colours Of Us
- The Cut
Newly arrived from their faraway homeland, a boy and his family enter into the lights, noise, and traffic of a busy American city in this dazzling wordless picture book. The language is unfamiliar. Food, habits, games, and gestures are puzzling. They boy clings tightly to his special keepsake from home and wonders how he will find his way. How will he once again become the happy, confident kid he used to be? Walk in his shoes as he takes the first tentative steps toward discovering joy in his new world. A poignant and affirming view of the immigrant experience.
4 .) All the Way to America by Dan Yaccarino
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- The Best Children’s Books
- The Cut
- Brightly
“Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text and warm, colorful illustrations, Yaccarino recounts how the little shovel was passed down through four generations of this Italian-American family—along with the good advice.
It’s a story that will have kids asking their parents and grandparents: Where did we come from? How did our family make the journey all the way to America?”
3 .) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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- BuzzFeed
- Goodreads
- OEDb
- Flavorwire
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
2 .) The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Lists It Appears On:
- Brightly
- Goodreads
- Tenement
- Flavorwire
“In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He’s embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life- he’s leaving home to build a better future for his family.
Shaun Tan evokes universal aspects of an immigrant’s experience through a singular work of the imagination. He does so using brilliantly clear and mesmerizing images. Because the main character can’t communicate in words, the book forgoes them too. But while the reader experiences the main character’s isolation, he also shares his ultimate joy.”
1 .) Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Lists It Appears On:
- Goodreads
- The Cut
- Brightly
- BuzzFeed
“Inspired by the author’s childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child’s-eye view of family and immigration.
Hà has only ever known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope—toward America.”
The 650+ Additional Best Books To Learn About Immigrants and Immigration Books
| # | Books | Author | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 1 List Each) | |||
| 51 | ¿Qué Onda?: Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity | Cynthia L. Bejarano | Books For Understanding |
| 52 | “They Take Our Jobs!”: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration | Aviva Chomsky | Books For Understanding |
| 53 | “I Know It’s Dangerous: Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border | Lynnaire M. Sheridan | Books For Understanding |
| 54 | A Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform: Perspectives from a Former US Attorney General | Alberto R. Gonzales, David N. Strange | Books For Understanding |
| 55 | A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship | Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, and Peter Guarnaccia | Books For Understanding |
| 56 | A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States | Ali Behdad | Books For Understanding |
| 57 | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain | Robert Olen Butler | OEDb |
| 58 | A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S. | Louis G. Mendoza | Books For Understanding |
| 59 | A Latina in the Land of Hollywood: and Other Essays on Media Culture | Angharad N. Valdivia | Books For Understanding |
| 60 | A Long Walk to Water | Linda Sue Park | Brightly |
| 61 | A Man of Good Hope | Jonny Steinberg | Five Books |
| 62 | A Midwestern Mosaic: Immigration and Political Socialization in Rural America | J. Celeste Lay | Books For Understanding |
| 63 | A Movie in My Pillow/Una pelicula en mi almohada | Jorge Argueta | Colours Of Us |
| 64 | A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America | Aristide R. Zolberg | Books For Understanding |
| 65 | A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America | Stephen Prothero, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 66 | A Picnic in October | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 67 | A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration | Daniel G. Groody, Gioacchino Campese, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 68 | A Saloonkeeper’s Daughter | Drude Krog Janson | OEDb |
| 69 | A Shelter in Our Car | Monica Gunning | Colours Of Us |
| 70 | A Step from Heaven | An Na | Nerdy Book Club |
| 71 | A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 | Jesse Hoffnun-Garskof | Books For Understanding |
| 72 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | Goodreads |
| 73 | Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home: Women, Cultural Identity, and Community | Carol E. Kelley | Books For Understanding |
| 74 | Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization | Evelyn Hu-DeHart | Books For Understanding |
| 75 | Adversity Is My Angel: The Life and Career of Raul H. Castro | Raul H. Castro, Jack L. August, Jr. | Books For Understanding |
| 76 | After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965 | Libby Garland | Books For Understanding |
| 77 | Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora | Daniel Kanstroom | Books For Understanding |
| 78 | Against the Tide: Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida | Sandro Lazo de la Vega, Timothy J. Steigenga | Books For Understanding |
| 79 | Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and the Stories of Undocumented Immigrants | Nicholas J. Cull, Davíd Carrasco, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 80 | Alienated: Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America | Victor C. Romero | Books For Understanding |
| 81 | All of a Kind Family | Sydney Taylor | Tenement |
| 82 | Almost A Woman | Esmeralda Santiago | BuzzFeed |
| 83 | Almost Home: A Brazilian American’s Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Immigration | H.B. Cavalcanti | Books For Understanding |
| 84 | Ambivalent Journey: U.S. Migration and Economic Mobility in North-Central Mexico | Richard C. Jones | Books For Understanding |
| 85 | America Beyond Black and White: How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide | Ronald Fernandez | Books For Understanding |
| 86 | America’s New Working Class: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age | Kathleen R. Arnold | Books For Understanding |
| 87 | America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity | Frank D. Bean, Gillian Stevens | Books For Understanding |
| 88 | American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century | Gary Gerstle | Books For Understanding |
| 89 | American Diversity: A Demographic Challenge for the Twenty-first Century | Nancy A. Denton, Stewart E. Tolnay | Books For Understanding |
| 90 | American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History | Donna Gabaccia, Vicki L. Ruiz, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 91 | American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins | Sarah J. Mahler | Books For Understanding |
| 92 | American Girl — Rebecca, 1914 | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 93 | American Guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U. S. Labor Market | David Griffith | Books For Understanding |
| 94 | American Immigration; 2nd edition | Maldwyn Allen Jones | Books For Understanding |
| 95 | American Paper Son: A Chinese Immigrant in the Midwest | Wayne Hung Wong, Edited and with an Introduction by Benson Tong | Books For Understanding |
| 96 | Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal | Michael Kazin, Joseph A. McCartin, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 97 | An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race | Heather Merrill | Books For Understanding |
| 98 | An American Brat | Bapsi Sidhwa | OEDb |
| 99 | An Immigrant Neighborhood: Interethnic and Interracial Encounters in New York before 1930 | Shirley J. Yee | Books For Understanding |
| 100 | Angel Island | Russell Freedman | The Cut |
| 101 | Angela’s Ashes | Frank McCourt | OEDb |
| 102 | Arab-American Faces and Voices: The Origins of an Immigrant Community | Elizabeth Booshada | Books For Understanding |
| 103 | Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States | Paul DiMaggio, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly | Books For Understanding |
| 104 | Ashes of Roses | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 105 | Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South | Khyati Y. Joshi, Jigna Desai, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 106 | At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 | Erika Lee | Books For Understanding |
| 107 | At Ellis Island | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 108 | Away | Amy Bloom | Goodreads |
| 109 | Barrio Boy | Ernesto Galarza | Books For Understanding |
| 110 | Beautiful Yetta: A Yiddish Chicken With Chutzpah | Daniel Pinkwater | Tenement |
| 111 | Because I Don’t Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life | Philip Garrison | Books For Understanding |
| 112 | Becoming American, Becoming Ethnic: College Students Explore Their Roots | Thomas Dublin, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 113 | Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the Welfare State | Patrick Ireland | Books For Understanding |
| 114 | Becoming Neighbors in a Mexican American Community: Power, Conflict, and Solidarity | Gilda L. Ochoa | Books For Understanding |
| 115 | Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation | Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters | Books For Understanding |
| 116 | Behold the Dreamers | Imbolo Mbue | Goodreads |
| 117 | Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American | Shehong Chen | Books For Understanding |
| 118 | Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America | Vivek Bald | Books For Understanding |
| 119 | Between the Lines: Letters Between Undocumented Mexican and Latin American Immigrants and Their Families and Friends | Larry Siems, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 120 | Beyond “Bilingual” Education: New Immigrants and Public School Policies in California | Alec Ian Gershberg, Anne Danenberg, and Patricia Sànchez | Books For Understanding |
| 121 | Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration | Jorge Durand, Nolan J. Malone, Douglas S. Massey | Books For Understanding |
| 122 | Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico | Debra Lattanzi Shutika | Books For Understanding |
| 123 | Beyond the Western Sea Series | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 124 | Beyond Walls and Borders | Jenna M. Lold, Matt Mitchelson and Andrew Burridge | London School Of Economics |
| 125 | Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream | Christina M. Greer | Books For Understanding |
| 126 | Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement | Timothy J. Dunn | Books For Understanding |
| 127 | Bloody Foreigners | Robert Winder | Five Books |
| 128 | Blue Boy | Rakesh Satyal | OEDb |
| 129 | Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor | Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson | Books For Understanding |
| 130 | Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County | J. Gilberto Quezada | Books For Understanding |
| 131 | Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona | Eric V. Meeks | Books For Understanding |
| 132 | Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe’s Frontiers | Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh | London School Of Economics |
| 133 | Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, Second Edition | Peter Andreas | Books For Understanding |
| 134 | Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands | Oscar J. Martínez | Books For Understanding |
| 135 | Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest | Carlos (Dean) Vélez-Ibáñez | Books For Understanding |
| 136 | Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755-1870 | Gilberto M. Hinojosa | Books For Understanding |
| 137 | Borderless Economics | Five Books | |
| 138 | Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands | Katherine Benton-Cohen | Books For Understanding |
| 139 | Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico | Deborah Cohen | Books For Understanding |
| 140 | Bread Givers | Anzia Yezierska | OEDb |
| 141 | Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy | Paul Apostolidis | Books For Understanding |
| 142 | Brick Lane | Monica Ali | Goodreads |
| 143 | Bringing Outsiders In: Transatlantic Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation | Jennifer L. Hochschild, John H. Mollenkopf, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 144 | Brooklyn | Colm Tóibín | Goodreads |
| 145 | Brother, I’m Dying | Edwidge Danticat | Bustle |
| 146 | Brown Girl, Brownstones | Paule Marshall | OEDb |
| 147 | Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City | Sonia Song-Ha Lee | Books For Understanding |
| 148 | By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys In and Out of Exile | María de los Angeles Torres, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 149 | Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment | Ted McDonald, Elizabeth Ruddick, Arthur Sweetman, and Christopher Worswick, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 150 | Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks | Karen Fog Olwig | Books For Understanding |
| 151 | Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States: Essays on Incorporation, Identity, and Citizenship | Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez, Ramon Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 152 | Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics | Sherene H. Razack | Books For Understanding |
| 153 | Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society: ¿Quién Soy? ¿Quiénes Somos? | Aída Hurtado, Patricia Gurin | Books For Understanding |
| 154 | Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activism in the Community | Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. | Books For Understanding |
| 155 | Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads: Social, Economic, and Political Change | David R. Maciel, Isidro D. Ortiz | Books For Understanding |
| 156 | Chicanismo: The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican Americans | Ignacio M. García, Isidro D. Ortiz | Books For Understanding |
| 157 | Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin | Devon G. Peña | Books For Understanding |
| 158 | Chicano Popular Culture: Que Hable el Pueblo | Charles M. Tatum | Books For Understanding |
| 159 | Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends | David R. Maciel, Isidro D. Ortiz, María Herrera-Sobek | Books For Understanding |
| 160 | Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food | Steve Striffler | Books For Understanding |
| 161 | Children of Immigration | Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco | Books For Understanding |
| 162 | Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s | Xiao-huang Yin | Books For Understanding |
| 163 | Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas Between China and America During the Exclusion Era | Sucheng Chan, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 164 | Chinese Christians in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities | Fenggang Yang | Books For Understanding |
| 165 | Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community | Huping Ling | Books For Understanding |
| 166 | Chocolate Milk, Por Favor | Maria Dismondy | Colours Of Us |
| 167 | Christ in Concrete | Pietro Di Donato | OEDb |
| 168 | Christophe’s Story | The Guardian | |
| 169 | Citizenship across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of “El Migrante” | Michael Peter Smith, Matt Bakker | Books For Understanding |
| 170 | Citizenship and Those Who Leave | Nancy L. Green, Francois Weil, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 171 | City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain | Andrew M. Gardner | Books For Understanding |
| 172 | Civic Ideals | Rogers M. Smith | Books For Understanding |
| 173 | Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era | K. Scott Wong, Sucheng Chan, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 174 | Claiming Citizenship: Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas A&M University | Anthony Quiroz | Books For Understanding |
| 175 | Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border | David Spener | Books For Understanding |
| 176 | Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act | Andrew Gyory | Books For Understanding |
| 177 | Colonias in Arizona and New Mexico: Border Poverty and Community Development Solutions | Adrian X. Esparza, Angela J. Donelson | Books For Understanding |
| 178 | Color: Latino Voices in the Pacific Northwest | Lorane A. West | Books For Understanding |
| 179 | Colour of Home | Mary Hoffman | Colours Of Us |
| 180 | Coming of Political Age: American Schools and the Civic Development of Immigrant Youth | Rebecca M. Callahan, Chandra Muller | Books For Understanding |
| 181 | Coming to England | The Guardian | |
| 182 | Communities without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration | David Bacon, Forewords by Carlos Mu Jr. and Douglas Harper | Books For Understanding |
| 183 | Conflict and Commerce on the Rio Grande: Laredo, 1755-1955 | John A. Adams Jr. | Books For Understanding |
| 184 | Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader | Mariana Ortega, Linda Martin Alcoff, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 185 | Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences | Linda Trinh Võ, Rick Bonus, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 186 | Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation | Min Zhou, foreword by Alejandro Portes | Books For Understanding |
| 187 | Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe | Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni and Florence Passy | Books For Understanding |
| 188 | Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall | Krista Schlyer | Books For Understanding |
| 189 | Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective, Third Edition | James Hollifield, Philip L. Martin, Pia Orrenius, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 190 | Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement | Ethan A. Nadelmann | Books For Understanding |
| 191 | Coram Boy | The Guardian | |
| 192 | Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600-1933 | Rodolfo F. Acuña | Books For Understanding |
| 193 | Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China | Julie Y. Chu | Books For Understanding |
| 194 | Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate | Louis DeSipio | Books For Understanding |
| 195 | Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America | Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver, Traci R. Burch | Books For Understanding |
| 196 | Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico | Natasha Iskander | Books For Understanding |
| 197 | Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier | Pablo Villa | Books For Understanding |
| 198 | Crossing Borders: Changing Social Identities in Southern Mexico | Kimberley M. Grimes | Books For Understanding |
| 199 | Crossing Borders: Migration and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century United States | Dorothee Schneider | Books For Understanding |
| 200 | Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration | Louis Mendoza and S. Shankar | Just Browsing |
| 201 | Crossing National Borders: Human Migration Issues in North East Asia | Tsuneo Akaha, Anna Vassilieva, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 202 | Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail | Ruben Martinez | Just Browsing |
| 203 | Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project | Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey | Books For Understanding |
| 204 | Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis | Katharyne Mitchell | Books For Understanding |
| 205 | Crossing the Rio Grande: An Immigrant’s Life in the 1880’s | Luis G. Gómez | Books For Understanding |
| 206 | Crossing the Wire | Will Hobbs | Nerdy Book Club |
| 207 | Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail | Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, and Ted Parks | Books For Understanding |
| 208 | Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco | Books For Understanding |
| 209 | Crowding Out Latinos: Mexican Americans in the Public Consciousness | Marco Portales | Books For Understanding |
| 210 | Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration | Gerald E. Poyo | Books For Understanding |
| 211 | Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities | Isabel Alvarez Borland, Lynette M. F. Bosch, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 212 | Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas | David Scott Fitzgerald, David Cook-Martín | Books For Understanding |
| 213 | Cultural Erotics in Cuban America | Ricardo L. Ortíz | Books For Understanding |
| 214 | Culture across Borders: Mexican Immigration and Popular Culture | David R. Maciel, María Herrera-Sobek | Books For Understanding |
| 215 | Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium | Dirk Hoerder | Books For Understanding |
| 216 | Curanderismo: Mexican American Folk Healing, 2nd edition | Robert T. Trotter II, Juan Antonio Chavira; foreword by Luis D. Leon | Books For Understanding |
| 217 | Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | Goodreads |
| 218 | Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands in the New Era | John Annerino | Books For Understanding |
| 219 | Dear Baobab | Cheryl Foggo | Colours Of Us |
| 220 | Debating the Ethics of Immigration: Is There a Right to Exclude? | Christopher Heath Wellman, Phillip Cole | Books For Understanding |
| 221 | Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s, Revised Edition | Francisco E. Balderrama, Raymond Rodríguez | Books For Understanding |
| 222 | Deciding to be Legal: A Maya Community in Houston | Jacqueline Maria Hagan | Books For Understanding |
| 223 | Defining America Through Immigration Policy | Bill Ong Hing | Books For Understanding |
| 224 | Democracy and the Foreigner | Bonnie Honig | Books For Understanding |
| 225 | Democracy in Immigrant America: Changing Demographics and Political Participation | S. Karthick Ramakrishnan | Books For Understanding |
| 226 | Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans | Julie Leininger Pycior | Books For Understanding |
| 227 | Desbordes: Translating Racial, Ethnic, Sexual, and Gender Identities across the Americas | María-Amelia Viteri | Books For Understanding |
| 228 | Desert Duty: On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol | Bill Broyles, Mark Haynes | Books For Understanding |
| 229 | Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 | Mario T. García | Books For Understanding |
| 230 | Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley | Shalini Shankar | Books For Understanding |
| 231 | Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City | Sunaina Marr Maira | Books For Understanding |
| 232 | Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex | Michael Welch | Books For Understanding |
| 233 | Digging to America | Anne Tyler | Goodreads |
| 234 | Diverse Pathways: Race and the Incorporation of Black, White, and Arab-Origin Africans in the United States | Kevin J.A. Thomas | Books For Understanding |
| 235 | Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America | Daniel J. Tichenor | Books For Understanding |
| 236 | Dream Things True | Latina | |
| 237 | Dreaming in Cuban | Cristina Garcia | OEDb |
| 238 | Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 239 | Drown | Junot Díaz | Goodreads |
| 240 | E Pluribus Unum?: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation | Gary Gerstle, John Mollenkopf | Books For Understanding |
| 241 | Eat a Bowl of Tea | Louis Chu | OEDb |
| 242 | Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances | Dominika Ferens | Books For Understanding |
| 243 | Ellis Island Interviews: In Their Own Words | Peter M. Coan | Just Browsing |
| 244 | Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century | Robert L. Fleegler | Books For Understanding |
| 245 | Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History | Catherine Ceninza Choy | Books For Understanding |
| 246 | Enforcing Immigration Law at the State and Local Levels: A Public Policy Dilemma | Jessica Saunders, Nelson Lim, Don Prosnitz | Books For Understanding |
| 247 | Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border | Eithne Luibhéid | Books For Understanding |
| 248 | Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943 | Sucheng Chan | Books For Understanding |
| 249 | Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest | Laura Pulido | Books For Understanding |
| 250 | Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration | Bill Ong Hing | Books For Understanding |
| 251 | Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America’s Immigration Story | Alan M. Kraut, David A. Gerber | Books For Understanding |
| 252 | Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America | Richard D. Alba | Books For Understanding |
| 253 | Ethnic Pride, American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era | June Granatir Alexander | Books For Understanding |
| 254 | Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future | Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, Meera Balarajan | Books For Understanding |
| 255 | Exit West | Mohsin Hamid | Goodreads |
| 256 | Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World | Paul Collier | Books For Understanding |
| 257 | Exodus/Éxodo | Charles Bowden, Photographs by Julián Cardona | Books For Understanding |
| 258 | Experiences of Passage: Yun Gee and Li-lan | Joyce Brodsky | Books For Understanding |
| 259 | Family and Gender among American Muslims: Issues Facing Middle Eastern Immigrants and Their Descendants | Barbara C. Aswad , Barbara Bilge, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 260 | Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans | Nazli Kibria | Books For Understanding |
| 261 | Farewell to Manzanar | Jeanne and James Houston | Nerdy Book Club |
| 262 | Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut | Anthony V. Riccio | Books For Understanding |
| 263 | Feivel’s Flying Horses | Heidi Smith Hyde | The Cut |
| 264 | Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy | Apichai W. Shipper | Books For Understanding |
| 265 | Filipino American Lives | Yen Le Espiritu | Books For Understanding |
| 266 | Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective | Donna R. Gabaccia | Books For Understanding |
| 267 | Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent | Matthew Carr | London School Of Economics |
| 268 | Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States | Seth Holmes | Books For Understanding |
| 269 | From Chinese Exclusion to Guantánamo Bay: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State | Natsu Taylor Saito | Books For Understanding |
| 270 | From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration | Ann Miles | Books For Understanding |
| 271 | From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration | Nancy Foner | Books For Understanding |
| 272 | From Far Away | Robert Munsch | The Cut |
| 273 | From North to South/Del Norte al Sure | René Colato Laínez | Colours Of Us |
| 274 | From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies | Carmen Teresa Whalen | Books For Understanding |
| 275 | From the Old Country: An Oral History of European Migration to America | Bruce M. Stave | Just Browsing |
| 276 | Frontiers of Fear: Immigration and Insecurity in the United States | Ariane Chebel D’Appollonia | Books For Understanding |
| 277 | Garden of the World: Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California’s Santa Clara Valley | Cecilia M. Tsu | Books For Understanding |
| 278 | Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration | Stephen R. Warner | Books For Understanding |
| 279 | Gender and Immigration | Gregory A. Kelson, Debra L. DeLaet | Books For Understanding |
| 280 | Gender Violence at the U.S.–Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response | Hector Domínguez-Ruvalcaba , Ignacio Corona, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 281 | General | National and Ethnic Identities | Books For Understanding |
| 282 | Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race | Edward E. Telles, Vilma Ortiz | Books For Understanding |
| 283 | Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home | Nina Glick Schiller , Georges Eugene Fouron | Books For Understanding |
| 284 | Germans in the Southwest, 1850-1920 | Tomas Jaehn | Books For Understanding |
| 285 | Gervelie’s Journey: A Refugee Diary | The Guardian | |
| 286 | Giants in the Earth | Ole Edvart Rolvaag | OEDb |
| 287 | Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan | Pei-Chia Lan | Books For Understanding |
| 288 | Globalizing Citizenship | Kim Rygiel | Books For Understanding |
| 289 | Good Enough | Paula Yoo | Nerdy Book Club |
| 290 | Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong | Frances Park | Colours Of Us |
| 291 | Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community | Gary Harwood, photographer, Text by David Hassler, Foreword by Robert Coles | Books For Understanding |
| 292 | Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 | Boston Globe | |
| 293 | Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience | Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, Joshua DeWind | Books For Understanding |
| 294 | Hannah is My Name | Belle Yang | Colours Of Us |
| 295 | Harvest of Hope: The Pilgrimage of a Mexican-American Physician | Jorge Prieto | Books For Understanding |
| 296 | Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers | Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, Dorothy E. Vawter, Phua Xiong, Barbara Babbitt, and Mary M. Solberg, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 297 | Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy | George J. Borjas | Books For Understanding |
| 298 | Help or Hindrance?: The Economic Implications of Immigration for African Americans | Daniel S. Hamermesh, Frank D. Bean, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 299 | Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics, and the Constructing of Identity | Geoffrey Fox | Books For Understanding |
| 300 | Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92 | Xiaolan Bao | Books For Understanding |
| 301 | Home at Last | Susan Middleton Elya | Colours Of Us |
| 302 | Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Jamie Ford | Goodreads |
| 303 | How Many Is Too Many?: The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States | Philip Cafaro | Books For Understanding |
| 304 | How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts | Natalia Molina | Books For Understanding |
| 305 | How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis | OEDb |
| 306 | How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor | Roger Waldinger, Michael I. Lichter | Books For Understanding |
| 307 | How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789 | Patrick Weil | Books For Understanding |
| 308 | How to Get Into the Twin Palms, Karolina Waclawiak | Flavorwire | |
| 309 | Human Rights along the U.S.–Mexico Border: Gendered Violence and Insecurity | Kathleen Staudt, Tony Payan, Z. Anthony Kruszewski, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 310 | I Am My Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands | Norma González | Books For Understanding |
| 311 | I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty | Patricia Zavella | Books For Understanding |
| 312 | Identity, Memory, and Diaspora: Voices of Cuban-American Artists, Writers, and Philosophers | Jorge J. E. Gracia, Lynette M. F. Bosch, and Isabel Alvarez Borland, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 313 | If They Don’t Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion | George Anthony Peffer | Books For Understanding |
| 314 | Illegal Migrations and the Huckleberry Finn Problem | John S.W. Park | Books For Understanding |
| 315 | Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants | David Bacon | Books For Understanding |
| 316 | Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization | Willem van Schendel, Itty Abraham, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 317 | Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930 | Patrick Ettinger | Books For Understanding |
| 318 | Immigrant America: A Portrait, Third Edition. | Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut | Books For Understanding |
| 319 | Immigrant Kids | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 320 | Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent | Katarzyna Marciniak, Imogen Tyler, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 321 | Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America | Dowell Myers | Books For Understanding |
| 322 | Immigrants and the Right to Stay | Joseph H. Carens | Books For Understanding |
| 323 | Immigrants and Their International Money Flows | Susan Pozo, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 324 | Immigrants in Courts | Joanne I. Moore, Margaret E. Fisher, Foreword James M. Dolliver | Books For Understanding |
| 325 | Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe | James F. Hollifield | Books For Understanding |
| 326 | Immigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion: Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900-1927 | Robert F. Zeidel | Books For Understanding |
| 327 | Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market | Immanuel Ness | Books For Understanding |
| 328 | Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them | Phillipe Legrain | Books For Understanding |
| 329 | Immigration and American Unionism | Vernon M. Briggs Jr. | Books For Understanding |
| 330 | Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence | Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Abel Valenzuela, Jr. | Books For Understanding |
| 331 | Immigration and Integration in Canada in the Twenty-first Century | John Biles, Meyer Burstein, and James Frideres, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 332 | Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States | Stephanie Bell-Rose, Frank D. Bean | Books For Understanding |
| 333 | Immigration and Race: New Challenges for American Democracy | Gerald D. Jaynes, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 334 | Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical | Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau and Josh DeWind, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 335 | Immigration and the Border: Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century | David L. Leal, José E. Limón, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 336 | Immigration and the Constraints of Justice: Between Open Borders and Absolute Sovereignty | Ryan Pevnick | Books For Understanding |
| 337 | Immigration Detention: Law, History, Politics | Daniel Wilsher | Books For Understanding |
| 338 | Immigration Economics | George J. Borjas | Books For Understanding |
| 339 | Immigration in a Changing Economy: California’s Experience | Kevin F. McCarthy, Georges Vernez | Books For Understanding |
| 340 | Immigration Outside the Law | Hiroshi Motomura | Books For Understanding |
| 341 | Immigration Policy and the Challenge of Globalization: Unions and Employers in Unlikely Alliance | Julie R. Watts | Books For Understanding |
| 342 | Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives | Nancy Foner , Rubén G. Rumbaut, and Steven J. Gold, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 343 | Immigration, Integration, and Inclusion in Ontario Cities | Caroline Andrew, John Biles, Meyer Burstein, Victoria Esses, and Erin Tolley, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 344 | Immigration, Integration, and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective | Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Simon Reich | Books For Understanding |
| 345 | Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality | David Card, Stephen Rafael, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 346 | In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration | Nancy Foner | Books For Understanding |
| 347 | In and Out of Morocco: Smuggling and Migration in a Frontier Boomtown | David A. McMurray | Books For Understanding |
| 348 | In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States | Victoria Hattam | Books For Understanding |
| 349 | India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England | Sandhya Shukla | Books For Understanding |
| 350 | Infidel | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Goodreads |
| 351 | Insider Research on Migration and Mobility: International Perspectives on Researcher Positioning | Lejla Voloder and Liudmila Kirpitchenko | London School Of Economics |
| 352 | Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families | Hung Cam Thai | Books For Understanding |
| 353 | Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France | Jonathan Laurence, Justin Vaisse | Books For Understanding |
| 354 | Integration and Inclusion of Newcomers and Minorities across Canada | John Biles, Meyer Burstein, Jim Frideres, Erin Tolley, and Rob Vineberg, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 355 | Into The Beautiful North | Latina | |
| 356 | Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880–1928 | Timothy J. Meagher | Books For Understanding |
| 357 | Issues in the Economics of Immigration | George Borjas, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 358 | It’s Easier To Reach Heaven Than The End Of The Street: A Jerusalem Memoir | Emma Williams | Bustle |
| 359 | Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and Second-Generation Progress, 1890 to 2000 | Joel Perlmann | Books For Understanding |
| 360 | Jalos, USA: Transnational Community and Identity | Alfredo Mirandé | Books For Understanding |
| 361 | Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley | Christian Zlolniski | Books For Understanding |
| 362 | Jasmine | Bharati Mukherjee | OEDb |
| 363 | Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut | Salma Abdelnour | Bustle |
| 364 | Journey Of Dreams | Latina | |
| 365 | Journey to Ellis Island | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 366 | Joyride | Latina | |
| 367 | Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America | Boston Globe | |
| 368 | Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today | David C. Brotherton, Philip Kretsedemas, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 369 | Kibbutzniks in the Diaspora | Naama Sabar | Books For Understanding |
| 370 | Korean Americans and Their Religions: Pilgrims and Missionaries from a Different Shore | Ho-Youn Kwon, Kwang Chung Kim, R. Stephen Warner | Books For Understanding |
| 371 | La Chulla Vida: Gender, Migration, and the Family in Andean Ecuador and New York City | Jason Pribilsky | Books For Understanding |
| 372 | La Merica: Images of Italian Greenhorn Experience | Michael A. La Sorte | Books For Understanding |
| 373 | La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State | David E. Hayes-Bautista | Books For Understanding |
| 374 | Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men’s Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871-1929 | Youngsoo Bae | Books For Understanding |
| 375 | Labor Market Issues along the U.S.–Mexico Border | Marie T. Mora, Alberto Dávila, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 376 | Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth Century America | Zaragosa Vargas | Books For Understanding |
| 377 | Lailah’s Lunchbox | Reem Faruqi | Colours Of Us |
| 378 | Landed | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 379 | Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America | Linda Allegro, Andrew Grant Wood, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 380 | Latina Activists Across Borders: Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas | Milagros Peña | Books For Understanding |
| 381 | Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South | Mary E. Odern, Elaine Lacy, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 382 | Latino Lives in America: Making It Home | Luis R. Fraga, John A. Garcia, Rodney E. Hero, Michael Jones-Correa, Valerie Martinez-Ebers and Gary Segura | Books For Understanding |
| 383 | Latino Los Angeles: Transformations, Communities, and Activism | Enrique C. Ochoa, Gilda L. Ochoa | Books For Understanding |
| 384 | Latino Sun, Rising: Our Spanish-Speaking U.S. World | Marco Portales | Books For Understanding |
| 385 | Latino Workers in the Contemporary South | Arthur D. Murphy, Colleen Blanchard, and Jennifer A. Hill, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 386 | Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco | Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr. | Books For Understanding |
| 387 | Latinos in Dixie: Class and Assimilation in Richmond, Virginia | Debra J. Schleef, H.B. Cavalcanti | Books For Understanding |
| 388 | Latinos in New England | Andrés Torres | Books For Understanding |
| 389 | Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law | Lucy E. Salyer | Books For Understanding |
| 390 | Letters from Rifka | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 391 | Life After | Sarah Darer Littman | Nerdy Book Club |
| 392 | Life Along the Border: A Landmark Tejana Thesis | Jovita González | Books For Understanding |
| 393 | Little Bee | Chris Cleave | Goodreads |
| 394 | Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City | Maxine L. Margolis | Books For Understanding |
| 395 | Little Failure | Gary Shteyngart | Goodreads |
| 396 | Little Manila Is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California | Dawn Bohulano Mabalon | Books For Understanding |
| 397 | Little Soldier | The Guardian | |
| 398 | Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border | Miriam Davidson | Books For Understanding |
| 399 | Lobbying for Inclusion: Rights Politics and the Making of Immigration Policy | Carolyn Wong | Books For Understanding |
| 400 | Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space | Rick Bonus | Books For Understanding |
| 401 | Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants | Nina Glick Schiller, Ayse Caglar, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 402 | Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | OEDb |
| 403 | Lost and Found Cat: The True Story of Kunkush’s Incredible Journey | Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes | The Cut |
| 404 | Lowji Discovers America | Candace Fleming | Brightly |
| 405 | Lucy | Jamaica Kincaid | OEDb |
| 406 | LULAC, Mexican Americans, and National Policy | Craig A. Kaplowitz | Books For Understanding |
| 407 | Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | Jacob Riis | OEDb |
| 408 | Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition | Nicole Constable | Books For Understanding |
| 409 | Main Street to Mainframes: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie | Harvey K. Flad, Clyde Griffen | Books For Understanding |
| 410 | Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand | Helen Simonson | Goodreads |
| 411 | Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of Diverse Democracy | Desmond King | Books For Understanding |
| 412 | Making Sense of Public Opinion: American Discourses About Immigration and Social Programs | Claudia Strauss | Books For Understanding |
| 413 | Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation | Edwidge Danticat | Colours Of Us |
| 414 | Managing African Portugal: The Citizen-Migrant Distinction | Kesha Fikes | Books For Understanding |
| 415 | Managing Ethnic Diversity after 9/11: Integration, Security, and Civil Liberties in Transatlantic Perspective | Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Simon Reich, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 416 | Managing Immigration and Diversity in Canada: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the New Age of Migration | Dan Rodriguez-Garcia, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 417 | Managing Labor Migration in the 21st Century | Philip Martin, Manolo Abella, and Christiane Kuptsch | Books For Understanding |
| 418 | Maus | Art Spiegelman | OEDb |
| 419 | Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida | Allen F. Burns | Books For Understanding |
| 420 | Mestizo Democracy: The Politics of Crossing Borders | John F. Burke | Books For Understanding |
| 421 | Mexican Americans and Health: ¡Sana! ¡Sana! | Adela de la Torre, Antonio Estrada | Books For Understanding |
| 422 | Mexican Americans and Language: Del dicho al hecho | Glenn A. Martínez | Books For Understanding |
| 423 | Mexican Americans and the Environment: Tierra y Vida | Devon G. Peña | Books For Understanding |
| 424 | Mexican Americans and the Law: ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! | Reynaldo Anaya Valencia, Sonia R. García, Henry Flores, José Roberto Juárez, Jr., | Books For Understanding |
| 425 | Mexican Americans and the Politics of Diversity: ¡Querer es poder! | Lisa Magaña | Books For Understanding |
| 426 | Mexican Americans and the U.S. Economy: Quest for Buenos Días | Arturo González | Books For Understanding |
| 427 | Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 | Mario T. García | Books For Understanding |
| 428 | Mexican Coal Mining Labor in Texas and Coahuila, 1880-1930 | Roberto R. Calderón | Books For Understanding |
| 429 | Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest | Gilbert G. González | Books For Understanding |
| 430 | Mexican Immigration to the United States | George J. Borjas, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 431 | Mexican Inclusion: The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest | Matthew Gritter | Books For Understanding |
| 432 | Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants | Robert Courtney Smith | Books For Understanding |
| 433 | Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration: Engendering Transnational Ties | Luz María Gordillo | Books For Understanding |
| 434 | Mexican-Origin People in the United States: A Topical History | Oscar J. Martínez | Books For Understanding |
| 435 | Mexicanos in Oregon: Their Stories, Their Lives | Erlinda V. Gonzales-Berry, Marcela Mendoza | Books For Understanding |
| 436 | Mexicans in the Making of America | Neil Foley | Books For Understanding |
| 437 | Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932 | Juan R. García | Books For Understanding |
| 438 | Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State Care and Contested Interests | Lauren Heidbrink | Books For Understanding |
| 439 | Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics | Dirk Hoerder, Nora Faires | Books For Understanding |
| 440 | Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World | Robyn Magalit Rodriguez | Books For Understanding |
| 441 | Migration-Trust Networks: Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration | Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal | Books For Understanding |
| 442 | Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York | Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, Robert C. Smith, and Ramón Grosfuguel, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 443 | Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy | Miguel Antonio Levario | Books For Understanding |
| 444 | Minorities in Phoenix: A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992 | Bradford Luckingham | Books For Understanding |
| 445 | Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States | Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey | Books For Understanding |
| 446 | Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 | Sunaina Marr Maira | Books For Understanding |
| 447 | Mixtec Transnational Identity | Laura Velasco Ortiz | Books For Understanding |
| 448 | Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s | Christina Gerken | Books For Understanding |
| 449 | Mona in the Promised Land | Gish Jen | OEDb |
| 450 | Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain | Ashley Dawson | Books For Understanding |
| 451 | Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrant Families and the Consequences of Welfare Reform | Lynn Fujiwara | Books For Understanding |
| 452 | Moving from the Margins: A Chicana Voice on Public Policy | Adela de la Torre | Books For Understanding |
| 453 | Mrs. Spring Fragrance | Sui Sin Far | OEDb |
| 454 | Música Norteña: Mexican Migrants Creating a Nation between Nations | Cathy Tagland | Books For Understanding |
| 455 | My Chinatown: One Year in Poems | Kam Mak | Colours Of Us |
| 456 | My Diary from Here to There/Mi diario de aqui hasta alla | Amada Irma Perez | Colours Of Us |
| 457 | My Dog Is Lost | Ezra Jack Keats | Colours Of Us |
| 458 | My Name Is Jorge: On Both Sides of the River | Jane Medina | Colours Of Us |
| 459 | My Name is Not Easy | Debby Dahl Edwardson | Nerdy Book Club |
| 460 | My Name Is Sangoel | Karen Williams | Colours Of Us |
| 461 | My Shoes and I | Rene Colato Lainez | Colours Of Us |
| 462 | Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis | Padma Rangaswamy | Books For Understanding |
| 463 | Naming Liberty | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 464 | National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945 | Christopher Rudolph | Books For Understanding |
| 465 | Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States | Susan Bibler Coutin | Books For Understanding |
| 466 | Native Speaker | Chang-Rae Lee | OEDb |
| 467 | Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany | Riva Kastoryano, Translated by Barbara Harshav | Books For Understanding |
| 468 | New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South | Helen B. Marrow | Books For Understanding |
| 469 | New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States | Víctor Zúñiga, Rubén Hernández-León, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 470 | New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration | Douglas S. Massey, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 471 | New Immigrants in New York | Nancy Foner | Books For Understanding |
| 472 | New York’s 50 Best Places to Find Peace and Quiet | The New York Times | |
| 473 | Newcomers in Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy | Louise Lamphere, Alex Stepick and Guillermo Grenier, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 474 | No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor | Cindy Hahamovitch | Books For Understanding |
| 475 | No-No Boy | John Okada | OEDb |
| 476 | Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship | May Joseph | Books For Understanding |
| 477 | Nosotros: The Hispanic People of Oregon | Erasmo Gamboa, Carolyn M. Buan, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 478 | Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform | Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis | Books For Understanding |
| 479 | Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy | Mireille Kingma | Books For Understanding |
| 480 | O Pioneers! | Willa Cather | Goodreads |
| 481 | On Black Sister’s Street | Chika Unigwe | BuzzFeed |
| 482 | On Toleration | Michael Walzer | Books For Understanding |
| 483 | One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century | Nancy Foner, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 484 | Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws | Kevin R. Johnson | Books For Understanding |
| 485 | Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California | Ruth Milkman, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 486 | Other Immigrants: The Global Origins of the American People | David M. Reimers | Books For Understanding |
| 487 | Out of the Shadow: A Russian Jewish Girlhood on the Lower East Side | Rose Cohen | Tenement |
| 488 | Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town | Warren St. John | Brightly |
| 489 | Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics | Gene H. Bell-Villada | Books For Understanding |
| 490 | Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration | Marc R. Rosenblum, Daniel J. Tichenor, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 491 | Paper Families: Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion | Estelle T. Lau | Books For Understanding |
| 492 | Paper Son: One Man’s Story | Tung Pok Chin, Winifred C. Chin | Books For Understanding |
| 493 | Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration | Brad Epps, Keja Valens, and Bill Johnson-Gonzalez, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 494 | Patrolling Chaos: The U.S. Border Patrol in Deep South Texas | Robert Lee Maril | Books For Understanding |
| 495 | Paul Horiuchi: East and West | Barbara Johns | Books For Understanding |
| 496 | Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 | John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, Randy William Widdis | Books For Understanding |
| 497 | Pinnick Kinnick Hill: An American Story/ Las Colinas sueñan en español | G. W. Gonzalez, edited by Mark Brazaitis, translated by Daniel F. Ferreras, preface by Suronda Gonzalez | Books For Understanding |
| 498 | Pity the Drowned Horses | Sheryl Luna | Books For Understanding |
| 499 | Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov | Flavorwire | |
| 500 | Pocketbooks Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America | Meg Jacobs | Books For Understanding |
| 501 | Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant | Eithne Luibhéid | Books For Understanding |
| 502 | Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers | Philip L. Martin | Books For Understanding |
| 503 | Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada | Cornelius J. Jaenen | Books For Understanding |
| 504 | Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings | Eithne Luibhéid, Lionel Cantú Jr., editors | Books For Understanding |
| 505 | Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900 | Eric T. L. Love | Books For Understanding |
| 506 | Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Second Edition | John W. Frazier, Eugene L. Tettey-Fio, Norah F. Henry, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 507 | Rancheros in Chicagoacán: Language and Identity in a Transnational Community | Marcia Farr | Books For Understanding |
| 508 | Recasting the Social in Citizenship | Engin F. Isin | Books For Understanding |
| 509 | Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Volume 2 | Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert E. Lang, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 510 | Reform Without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State | Alfonso Gonzales | Books For Understanding |
| 511 | Refugees and the Asylum Dilemma in the West | Gil Loescher | Books For Understanding |
| 512 | Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana: Politics, Identity, and Faith in New Migrant Communities | Lois Ann Lorentzen, Joaquin Jay Gonzales III, Kevin M. Chun, and Hien Duc Do, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 513 | Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics | Kathleen M. Coll | Books For Understanding |
| 514 | Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration | Richard Alba, Victor Nee | Books For Understanding |
| 515 | ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora | Andrea O’Reilly Herrera | Books For Understanding |
| 516 | Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century | Elisa Camiscioli | Books For Understanding |
| 517 | Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia: Immigrants in a Divided City | Judith Goode, Jo Anne Schneider | Books For Understanding |
| 518 | Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American | Jean-Robert Cadet | Books For Understanding |
| 519 | Return To Sender | Latina | |
| 520 | Revisiting US-VISIT: U.S. Immigration Processes, Concerns, andConsequences | David S. Ortiz, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Aruna Balakrishnan,, Merril Miceli | Books For Understanding |
| 521 | Revoltosos: Mexico’s Rebels in the United States, 1903-1923 | W. Dirk Raat | Books For Understanding |
| 522 | Right to DREAM: Immigration Reform and America’s Future | William A. Schwab | Books For Understanding |
| 523 | Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest | Amy Bhatt, Nalini Iyer | Books For Understanding |
| 524 | Ru | Kim Thúy | Goodreads |
| 525 | Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders | Leisy J. Abrego | Books For Understanding |
| 526 | Saffron Dreams | Shaila Abdulla | OEDb |
| 527 | Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles | Cindy García | Books For Understanding |
| 528 | Same Sun Here | Silas House | Tenement |
| 529 | Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada | Anna Pratt | Books For Understanding |
| 530 | Seedfolks | Paul Fleischman | The Cut |
| 531 | Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles | Nora Hamilton, Norma Stoltz Chinchilla | Books For Understanding |
| 532 | Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada | María Cristina García | Books For Understanding |
| 533 | Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest | Sandra M. Chait | Books For Understanding |
| 534 | Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State | Christian Joppke | Books For Understanding |
| 535 | Shanghai Girls | Lisa See | Goodreads |
| 536 | Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison | Rodney Benson | Books For Understanding |
| 537 | Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California’s Proposition 187 | Kent A. Ono, John M. Sloop | Books For Understanding |
| 538 | Shooting Kabul | N.H. Senzai | Brightly |
| 539 | Showdown in the Sonoran Desert: Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy | Ananda Rose | Books For Understanding |
| 540 | Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 541 | Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops | Robert J. S. Ross | Books For Understanding |
| 542 | Small Island | Andrea Levy | Goodreads |
| 543 | Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States | Ko-lin Chin | Books For Understanding |
| 544 | So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico | Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp | Books For Understanding |
| 545 | Sofi Mendozas Guide To Getting Lost In Mexico | Latina | |
| 546 | Sofia’s Immigrant Diary (My America series) | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 547 | Songs of Willow Frost | Jamie Ford | Goodreads |
| 548 | Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon | Glenn Anthony May | Books For Understanding |
| 549 | Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland | Geraldo L. Cadava | Books For Understanding |
| 550 | Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey | Margriet Ruurs | The Cut |
| 551 | Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York | Roger Waldinger | Books For Understanding |
| 552 | Straddling the Border: Immigration Policy and the INS | Lisa Magaña | Books For Understanding |
| 553 | Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders, and Fundamental Law | Gerald L. Neuman | Books For Understanding |
| 554 | Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography | Annette White-Parks | Books For Understanding |
| 555 | Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States | Monica Varsanyi, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 556 | Talking to High Monks in the Snow | Lydia Minatoya | Just Browsing |
| 557 | Tattered Sails | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 558 | Tea with Milk | Allen Say | Colours Of Us |
| 559 | Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos | Andrés Tijerina | Books For Understanding |
| 560 | The “Huddled Masses” Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights | Kevin R. Johnson | Books For Understanding |
| 561 | The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror | Stanley A. Renshon | Books For Understanding |
| 562 | The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging | Wisdom J. Tettey, Korbla P. Puplampu, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 563 | The African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21st Century | John W. Frazier, Joe T. Darden, Norah F. Henry, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 564 | The Age of Mass Migration | Five Books | |
| 565 | The Age of Migration | Five Books | |
| 566 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | OEDb |
| 567 | The American South in a Global World | James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 568 | The American West: A New Interpretive History | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher | Books For Understanding |
| 569 | The Assistant | Bernard Malamud | OEDb |
| 570 | The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion | Katja Franko Aas, Mary Bosworth, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 571 | The Borders Within: Encounters Between Mexico and the U.S. | Douglas Monroy | Books For Understanding |
| 572 | The Bread Givers | Anzia Yezierska | BuzzFeed |
| 573 | The Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka | Goodreads |
| 574 | The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca | Tahir Shah | Bustle |
| 575 | The Changing Face of World Cities: Young Adult Children of Immigrants in Europe and the United States | Maurice Krul, John Mollenkopf, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 576 | The Chinese Experience in America | Shih-Shan Henry Tsai | Books For Understanding |
| 577 | The Colonias Reader: Economy, Housing and Public Health in U.S.- Mexico Border Colonias | Angela J. Donelson, Adrian X. Esparza | Books For Understanding |
| 578 | The Comfort Women | Nora Okja Keller | OEDb |
| 579 | The Consequences of Love | Sulaiman Addonia | BuzzFeed |
| 580 | The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico | Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, David R. Maciel, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 581 | The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their Homelands | Roger Waldinger | Books For Understanding |
| 582 | The Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community | Yolanda Prieto | Books For Understanding |
| 583 | The Cultural Dimensions of Immigration: The Immigrant Artist at Work | Edwidge Danticat | Books For Understanding |
| 584 | The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico | Jeffrey H. Cohen | Books For Understanding |
| 585 | The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement | Nicholas de Genova, Nathalie Peutz, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 586 | The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans | Stephen J. Pitti | Books For Understanding |
| 587 | The Dignity of Working Men | Michèle Lamont | Books For Understanding |
| 588 | The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate | Walter J. Nicholls | Books For Understanding |
| 589 | The Ellis Island Snow Globe | Erica Rand | Books For Understanding |
| 590 | The English-Only Question: An Official Language for Americans? | Dennis Baron | Books For Understanding |
| 591 | The Ethics of Immigration | Joseph Carens | Books For Understanding |
| 592 | The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America | Stephen Steinberg | Books For Understanding |
| 593 | The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.–Mexico Border | Robert Lee Maril | Books For Understanding |
| 594 | The Fortunate Pilgrim | Mario Puzo | OEDb |
| 595 | The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State | Yossi Shain | Books For Understanding |
| 596 | The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 | Cindy Hahamovitch | Books For Understanding |
| 597 | The Funeral Party | Lyudmila Ulitskaya | OEDb |
| 598 | The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages | Mimi Thi Nguyen | Books For Understanding |
| 599 | The Glory of Brooklyn’s Gowanus: Legacy, Industry, Artistry | The New York Times | |
| 600 | The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | Goodreads |
| 601 | The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family | Ralph Flores | Books For Understanding |
| 602 | The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920 | Sabine Haenni | Books For Understanding |
| 603 | The Immigrant Threat: The Integration of Old and New Migrants in Western Europe since 1850 | Leo Lucassen | Books For Understanding |
| 604 | The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law | Philip Kretsedemas | Books For Understanding |
| 605 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | Goodreads |
| 606 | The International Law of Economic Migration: Toward the Fourth Freedom | Joel P. Trachtman | Books For Understanding |
| 607 | The Invention of the Jewish Gaucho: Villa Clara and the Construction of Argentine Identity | Judith Noemí Freidenberg | Books For Understanding |
| 608 | The Irish in Philadelphia: Ten Generations of Urban Experience | Dennis Clark | Books For Understanding |
| 609 | The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture | Diane Negra | Books For Understanding |
| 610 | The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas | Alaberto Gerchunoff | Books For Understanding |
| 611 | The Journal of Finn Reardon: A Newsie, New York City (My Name is America series) | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 612 | The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 613 | The Journey | Francesca Sanna | The Cut |
| 614 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | OEDb |
| 615 | The Keeping Quilt | Patricia Polacco | Brightly |
| 616 | The King of Mulberry Street | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 617 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | OEDb |
| 618 | The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State | Hannah Gill | Books For Understanding |
| 619 | The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation | Leo R. Chavez | Books For Understanding |
| 620 | The Law Into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism | Roxanne Lynn Doty | Books For Understanding |
| 621 | The Leavers | Lisa Ko | Goodreads |
| 622 | The Line of the Sun | Judith Ortiz Cofer | OEDb |
| 623 | The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience | Mark Bixler | Bustle |
| 624 | The Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri | Goodreads |
| 625 | The Madelenka books | Peter Sís | The Cut |
| 626 | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Oscar Hijuelos | OEDb |
| 627 | The Mango Bride | Marivi Soliven | BuzzFeed |
| 628 | The Matchbox Diary | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 629 | The Maya Diaspora: Guatemalan Roots, New American Lives | James Loucky, Marilyn M. Moors, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 630 | The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South | Leon Fink | Books For Understanding |
| 631 | The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality | Daniel D. Arreola, James R. Curtis | Books For Understanding |
| 632 | The Multicultural Southwest: A Reader | A. Gabriel Meléndez, M. Jane Young, Patricia Moore, Patrick Pynes | Books For Understanding |
| 633 | The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring | Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 634 | The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis | John P. Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael I.J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner, and Kiljoong Kim, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 635 | The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate Over Immigration | Robin Dale Jacobson | Books For Understanding |
| 636 | The New Rural Poverty: Agriculture and Immigration in California | Philip L. Martin, Michael E. Fix, and J. Edward Taylor | Books For Understanding |
| 637 | The Other Americans: How Immigrants Renew Our Country, Our Economy and Our Values | Joel Millman | Just Browsing |
| 638 | The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico | Sheila Croucher | Books For Understanding |
| 639 | The Other Side of Truth | The Guardian | |
| 640 | The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy | Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Thomas Piazza | Books For Understanding |
| 641 | The Permit that Never Expires: Migrant Tales from the Ozark Hills and the Mexican Highlands | Philip Garrison | Books For Understanding |
| 642 | The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research | Christina Boswell | Books For Understanding |
| 643 | The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration | Natalie Masuoka, Jane Junn | Books For Understanding |
| 644 | The Politics of Diversity: Immigration, Resistance, and Change in Monterey Park, California | John Horton | Books For Understanding |
| 645 | The Politics of Immigration: Contradictions of the Liberal State | James Hampshire | London School Of Economics |
| 646 | The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration | Martin Ruhs | Books For Understanding |
| 647 | The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives | Carmen Teresa Whalen, Víctor Vázquez-Hernández, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 648 | The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965 | Martha Gardner | Books For Understanding |
| 649 | The Quiet Place | Sarah Stewart | Colours Of Us |
| 650 | The Rise of David Lavinsky | Abraham Cahan | OEDb |
| 651 | The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor | Grace Kyungwon Hong | Books For Understanding |
| 652 | The Secret Side Of Empty | Maria E. Andreu | BuzzFeed |
| 653 | The Seeds of Friendship | Michael Foreman | Colours Of Us |
| 654 | The Shawl | Cynthia Ozick | OEDb |
| 655 | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | Anne Fadiman | Goodreads |
| 656 | The Storyteller’s Candle/La Velita de los Cuentos | Lucia Gonzalez | The Cut |
| 657 | The Thing Around Your Neck | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Goodreads |
| 658 | The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans | Christian Collet, Pei-te Lien, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 659 | The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation | Sucheng Chan | Books For Understanding |
| 660 | The Wherewithal of Life: Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being | Michael Jackson | Books For Understanding |
| 661 | The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S -Mexico Borderlands | Tyche Hendricks | Bustle |
| 662 | The Woman Warrior | Maxine Hong Kingston | OEDb |
| 663 | The World Comes to America: Immigration to the United States Since 1945 | Leonard Dinnerstein, David M. Reimers | Books For Understanding |
| 664 | The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas | Emilio Zamora | Books For Understanding |
| 665 | The Xaripu Community across Borders: Labor Migration, Community, and Family | Manuel Barajas | Books For Understanding |
| 666 | Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land | John Coy | The Cut |
| 667 | This Is How You Lose Her | Junot Díaz | Goodreads |
| 668 | Tis A Memoir | Frank McCourt | Goodreads |
| 669 | To Be an Immigrant | Kay Deaux | Books For Understanding |
| 670 | To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves | Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 671 | To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America | Tara Bahrampour | Bustle |
| 672 | Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location | Ginette Verstraete | Books For Understanding |
| 673 | Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America | David Cowart | Books For Understanding |
| 674 | Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America | Ioanna Lalioto | Books For Understanding |
| 675 | Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon | Lynn Stephen | Books For Understanding |
| 676 | Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border | Raquel R. Márquez, Harriet D. Romo, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 677 | Transformations: Immigration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents | Carola & Marcelo Suárez-Orozco | Books For Understanding |
| 678 | Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States | Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ramirez, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 679 | Translation Nation | Hector Tobar | Just Browsing |
| 680 | Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States | Carolina Bank Muñoz | Books For Understanding |
| 681 | Troublesome Border, Revised Edition | Oscar J. Martínez | Books For Understanding |
| 682 | True Faith and Allegiance: Immigration and American Civic Nationalism | Noah Pickus | Books For Understanding |
| 683 | Trust beyond Borders: Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies | Markus M.L. Crepaz | Books For Understanding |
| 684 | Tunnel Kids | Lawrence Taylor, Maeve Hickey | Books For Understanding |
| 685 | Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | Goodreads |
| 686 | Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan | Flora Belle Jan, Edited by Fleur Yano and Saralyn Daly, Introduction by Judy Wu | Books For Understanding |
| 687 | Under Copp’s Hill (History Mysteries series) | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 688 | Under the Mesquite | Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Nerdy Book Club |
| 689 | Unguarded Gates: A History of America’s Immigration Crisis | Otis L. Graham | Just Browsing |
| 690 | United We Win: The Rise and Fall of La Raza Unida Party | Ignacio M. García | Books For Understanding |
| 691 | Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization | A. Aneesh | Books For Understanding |
| 692 | Waiting on Washington: Central American Workers in the Nation’s Capital | Terry A. Repak | Books For Understanding |
| 693 | We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11 | Tram Nguyen | Books For Understanding |
| 694 | We Need New Names | NoViolet Bulawayo | Goodreads |
| 695 | We Need Two Worlds: Chinese Immigrant Associations in a Western Society | Li Minghuan | Books For Understanding |
| 696 | Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coal Fields | Ronald L. Lewis | Books For Understanding |
| 697 | Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy | Christopher Mitchell, editor | Books For Understanding |
| 698 | When I First Came to This Land | The Best Children’s Books | |
| 699 | When I was Puerto Rican | Esmeralda Santiago | OEDb |
| 700 | When This World Was New | D H Figueredo | Colours Of Us |
| 701 | White Teeth | Zadie Smith | Goodreads |
| 702 | Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration | Vanessa B. Beasley | Books For Understanding |
| 703 | Who Needs Migrant Workers?: Labour Shortages, Immigration, and Public Policy | Martin Ruhs, Bridget Anderson, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 704 | Who Speaks for Hispanics?: Hispanic Interest Groups in Washington | Deirdre Martinez | Books For Understanding |
| 705 | Why Americans Don’t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate | Zultan L. Hajnal, Taeku Lee | Books For Understanding |
| 706 | Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide | Michael Dear | Books For Understanding |
| 707 | Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants | Joanna Brooks | Books For Understanding |
| 708 | Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader | Denise A. Segura, Patricia Zavella, editors | Books For Understanding |
| 709 | Wooden Fish Songs: A Novel | Ruthanne Lum McCunn | Books For Understanding |
| 710 | Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream | Janice Fine | Books For Understanding |
| 711 | Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago | Nicholas De Genova | Books For Understanding |
| 712 | You Can’t Be Mexican: You Talk Just Like Me | Frank S. Mendez | Books For Understanding |
19 Best Immigrant Story Book Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| Books For Understanding | IMMIGRATION |
| Boston Globe | 7 books on the subject of immigration |
| Brightly | 15 Books for Kids About the Immigrant Experience in America |
| Bustle | 12 Nonfiction Books About Immigration |
| BuzzFeed | 17 Books That Perfectly Capture The Immigrant Experience |
| Colours Of Us | 30 Multicultural Picture Books about Immigration |
| Five Books | The best books on Immigration |
| Flavorwire | 10 Great Novels About the Immigrant Experience |
| Goodreads | Popular Immigrant Experience Books |
| Just Browsing | TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOKS ABOUT IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA |
| Latina | 11 Young Adult Novels About The Immigrant Experience |
| London School Of Economics | Reading List: 7 powerful books on immigration and refugee rights |
| Nerdy Book Club | TEN YOUNG ADULT BOOKS THAT REFLECT THE US IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE BY NATALIE DIAS LORENZI |
| OEDb | Coming to America: 50 Greatest Works of Immigration Literature |
| Tenement | Miriam’s Top Ten Immigration Book Recommendations |
| The Best Children’s Books | Immigrant Stories in early American history |
| The Cut | ‘These Books Can Help’: Reading to Kids About Immigration and Refugees |
| The Guardian | What are the best books on immigration and adapting to life in the UK? |
| The New York Times | Giving Voice to Immigrants, Past and Present |
