Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship

Resources

• ACLU Immigrant's Rights / Derechos de los Inmigrantes

• Airport Lawyer

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

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

• Bibliothèques Sans Frontières / Libraries without Borders

  • U.S. Branch

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

• CUNYClear

• Displaced, Exiled and Migrant Persons (European Bureau of Library, Information, and Documentation Associations)

• ECHO Mobile Library (Greece)

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

• ICE Raid Resources

• IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons: Refugees, Migrants, Immigrants, Asylum Seekers

• Immigrants Rising

• Immigration Justice Campaign - To coordinate and help lawyers and the public with legal resources for detained refugees and asylum seekers

• Juntos (Philadelphia)

• Legal Aid Society (NYC) - Critical Resources for Immigrant Communities (2025)

• Libraries Serve Refugees - (last updated in 2022)

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

• Make The Road (New York)

• Multicultural Library Manifesto Toolkit (IFLA/UNESCO)

• National Immigration Law Center

• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

• New York Immigration Coalition

• New York Public Library Immigrant Services

• Organized Communities Against Deportations (Chicago)

• Project Welcome: Libraries Serving Refugees and Asylum Seekers

• REFORMA Children in Crisis Project giving books to refugee children

• Resources for New Immigrants (ALA)

• Resources for Undocumented Students LibGuide (Bronx Community College)

• Torn Apart/Separados: Data Visualization of ICE detention and family separation crises (2018) 

• We Have Rights: Multilingual 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.

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.