Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

Resources

• ACLU Immigrant's Rights

• Airport Lawyer

• ALA #LibrariesRespond: Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

• American Immigration Lawyers Association - Their Infonet Research Library is very much updated on immigration issues.

• Cambridge Public Library Resources for Immigrants and Refugees

• Change the Subject: a documentary about the effort to change "Illegal aliens" in Library of Congress Subject Headings. (also streaming via YouTube)

• ECHO Refugee Library (Greece)

• ALA Ethnic & Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) - Resources & Bibliographies

• ICE Raid Resources

• Immigration Justice - To coordinate and help lawyers and the public with legal resources for those at airports

• Legal Help for Newcomers: for attorneys helping refugees and refugees looking for legal advice

• Libraries Serve Refugees

• Library Services for Immigrants: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services & IMLS

• National Immigration Law Center

• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

• New York Immigration Coalition

• New York Public Library Immigrant Services

• Project Welcome: Libraries Serving Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• REFORMA Children in Crisis Project giving books to refugee children

• Refugee Info Bus

• Resources for New Immigrants (ALA)

• Resources for Refugees (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)

• Resources for Undocumented Students LibGuide (Bronx Community College)

• Torn Apart/Separados: Data Visualization of ICE detention and family separation crises.

• We Have Rights: Rights Education Resources for ICE encounters (ACLU)

• Welcoming America Resource Library

Podcasts & Webinars

• "Free IFLA/ALA Webinar: Library Services to Immigrants and Refugees." ifla.org, 31 March 2016.

• Change the Subject: a documentary about the effort to change "Illegal aliens" in Library of Congress Subject Headings.

Articles

• Cruz, Rebecca. “Immigration Services in Libraries.” Public Libraries Online, 2 March 2016.

• Dreyfuss, Emily. "'ICE is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis." Wired, 25 June 2018.

• Griffey, Jason. "Plan, Prepare, Act." jasongriffey.net, 22 February, 2017.

• Matteson, Addie. "Librarians Providing Safe Havens as Deportation Fears Loom." slj.com, 22 March 2017.

• Peet, Lisa. "Academic Libraries Respond to Immigration Ban." libraryjournal.com, 6 Feb. 2017.

• Prupis, Nadia. "'Love That Doesn't Risk Isn't Love': Amid Immigration Chaos, Sanctuaries Flourish." commondreams.org, 21 Feb. 2017.

• Saunders, Laura. "Libraries as Sanctuary Spaces." Unbound: Simmons SILS Blog, 31 Jan. 2017.