Books Recommendations
Delve deeper into the subjects covered in the Immigration Forum 2020 by reading these books recommended by our panelists and founder.
Recommended by
Professor Zeid:
Refugee is a memoir about a migrant’s six-year journey from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Netherlands.
Recommended by
Professor Benton- Cohen:
Tell Me How It Ends is a short book that humanizes young migrants and highlights the contradiction between the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants and the reality of racism and fear—both here and back home.
Recommended by
Professor Hong:
In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era.
Recommended by
Founder of Immigration Forum, Antonia Brillembourg:
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu is a memoir about becoming a US border patrol and exploring the relationship between the militarized borderlands and the migrants that transverse it.