If you are looking for books to add to your summer reading list, check out this set of books on immigration that are out this year! Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability by Carolina Valdivia “Immigration policy and enforcement… Read More ›
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Applying to Graduate School? Check Out These Books!
If you are getting ready to apply to graduate school, the following books help distill the application process and experience. “In The Latinx Guide to Graduate School Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera provide prospective and current Latinx graduate students in… Read More ›
Examining How Immigration Officers Reconcile Race and Morality in Their Work: A Book Review of “Bordering on Indifference” and a Q and A with author Dr. Irene Vega
(Review and Interview by Angie) Dr. Irene Vega is an associate professor in the sociology department at the University of California, Irvine, whose work looks at immigration enforcement using a top-down approach, examining those who enforce immigration policies, such as… Read More ›
New Books on Immigration Out in 2025
If you are looking for books to add to your summer reading list, check out this set of books on immigration that are out this year! Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality by Irene I. Vega “In Bordering on… Read More ›
Understanding the Lives of Unaccompanied & Undocumented Young Adults: A Review of “Sin Padres, Ni Papeles” and Q & A with author Dr. Stephanie L. Canizales
Dr. Stephanie L. Canizales is an assistant professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley whose work explores the consequences of immigration policy on migrant children and their families, including undocumented young adults who migrate to the United States unaccompanied. More recently,… Read More ›
New Books on Immigration Out in 2024!
If you are looking for books to add to your reading list, check out this set of books on immigration that are coming out this year! Living Together Across Borders: Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families by Lynnette Arnold This… Read More ›
New Books on Immigration Out this Year!
Many new books on immigration are coming out this year! If you’re looking for some summer reading, check out these new books: Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children By Silvia Rodriguez Vega This book examines the experiences of… Read More ›
New Immigration Book: “We Are Not Dreamers” co-edited by Leisy J. Abrego and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales
We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States makes a critical and much-needed contribution to ongoing debates about immigration from the lens of emerging immigration scholars who identify as currently or formerly undocumented. The book is… Read More ›
Recommended Readings on Immigration
My Undocumented Life and UndocuPhDs partnered to curate a list of publications that are written by currently or formerly undocumented folks. In addition to those readings, these are books that we highly recommend for people interested in the learning more about… Read More ›
Book Review: Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer, Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life by Alberto Ledesma
By JENNIFER Dr. Ledesma’s graphic novel was an easy read yet cut to the core of my pre American life. It was also timely. I recently removed “the undocumented American experience” from the title of my blog. The reason is that… Read More ›
Book review: “Youth Held at the Border” by Lisa Patel
By GABRIELLA and NESTOR In Youth Held at the Border: Immigration, Education, and the Politics of Inclusion (2012), Lisa Patel explores how immigrant youth are included in, and excluded from, various sectors of U.S. society, including education. Instead of the land of opportunity, immigrant youth often encounter… Read More ›
Los Otros Dreamers: Must-read book on undocumented young adults
Los Otros Dreamers (The Other Dreamers), by Jill Anderson and Nin Solis, is a book that features the experiences, dreams, challenges, achievements (and much more) of undocumented youth who grew up in the United States and have either been deported, or… Read More ›