As we prepare for the convening in November, Re-Conceptualizing the 21st Century (Im)Migrant, we have consulted the following sources on issues related to immigration.  Additionally, we have been collaborating with several other local organizations:

American Civil Liberties Union: Immigration Myths and Facts

American Friends Service Committee – Immigrants Rights

Amnesty International – Refugee and Migrant Rights

Arab American Association of New York

Border Angels

The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego

The Centre for Studies in International Relations

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Council on Foreign Relations – The Future of U.S. Immigration Policy: A Conversation with Michael Bloomberg (Video)

David Bacon: Stories and Photographs – Immigrants

December 18

Define American

The Detention Watch Network

The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

DREAM Act: Summary – National Immigration Lawyer Center

Dream Activist

E-Verify – National Immigration Forum

Florida Immigrant Coalition

Gaye Chan: Frass Exhibit

Human Rights Watch

Immigration Equality – LGBT Immigrants

Immigration Policy Center

International Labor Organization: Protecting the rights of migrant workers: A shared responsibility

International Organization for Migration

The International Migrants’ Bill of Rights

Make the Road

Mayor Bloomberg’s Office of Immigrant Affairs

The Migration Policy Institute

The MinKwon Center

MFY Legal Services - Guías Informativas en Español

MFY Legal Services - Quick Index of Fact Sheets

The National Council of La Raza

National Immigrant Youth Alliance

National Immigration Forum

National Public Radio – Sylvia Poggioli: Immigrants Forced to Margins of Italian Society

New Immigrant Community Empowerment

New York Civil Liberties Union – Immigration Reform

New York Dream Act

New York Immigrant Council

New York State Youth Leadership Council

New York University Immigrant Rights Clinic

Partnership for a New American Economy – Fact Sheets on Immigration

Pew Hispanic Center

Presente.org

The People’s Movement for Human Rights Education

San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network

Secure Communities Program – ACLU

Students Working for Equal Rights

Trail of Dreams

United Nations: Charter

United Nations: The International Convention on Migrant Workers and its Committee

United Nations: The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

United Nations: International Migrants Day

United Nations: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

United Nations: Urban Indigenous Peoples and Migration Fact Sheet

University of Chicago: The Latin American Briefing Series

The Workplace Project/Centro de Derechos Laborales

Yeshiva University – Cardozo Law – Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic

 

Literature

 

Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration (Douglas Massey, Jorge Durand and Nolan Malone)

Birds Of Passage: Migrant Labor And Industrial Societies (Michael Piore)

The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (David Bacon)

Cruzar la línea : la migración de México a los Estados Unidos (Jorge A. Bustamante)

Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. (Ron Hayduk)

God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape (Peggy Levitt)

Guests and Aliens (Saskia Sassen)

Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada (Nandita Sharma)

Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (David Bacon)

Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities (Wayne Cornelius and Jessa M Lewis)

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America) (Mae M. Ngai)

Immigrant America: A Portrait (Alejandro Portes and  Ruben G. Rumbaut)

Immigration and Crime: Race, Ethnicity, and Violence (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law (Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.)

In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States (Victoria Hattam)

Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I.N.S. (Kitty Calavita)

Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities (Paul Ong, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris)

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut)

Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders (Jason L. Riley)

The Location of Culture (Homi Bhabha)

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City (Mike Davis)

Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States: Policies of Emigration since 1848 (Alexandra Délano)

A Nation of Immigrants (Susan F. Martin)

Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany (Riva Kastoryano)

No One Is Illegal (Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis)

Open Veins of Latin America (Eduardo Galeano)

A People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)

Race and American Political Development (Joseph Lowndes, Julie Novkov and Dorian Warren)

Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights (Jennifer Gordon)

Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States  (Monisha Das Gupta)

Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream (Janice Fine)