Immigration & refugees

Podcasts

• "Immigration: Defining 'Us' and 'Them'," from Now & Then, 27 September 2022 -- added 10.30.22

• How Separating Migrant Families Became U.S. Policy, from The New York Times - The Daily, 19 June 2018

• A Conversation with a Border Patrol Agent, from The New York Times - The Daily, 24 September 2019

• No Place Like Home, from This American Life, 14 March 2014

• Abdi and the Golden Ticket, from This American Life, 3 July 2015

• What a Border Sheriff Thinks About the Wall, from The New York Times - The Daily, 11 January 2019

Movies

• Targeting El Paso, from PBS Frontline (free)

• Kids Caught in the Crackdown, from PBS Frontline (free)

• Zero Tolerance, from PBS Frontline (free)

• Separated: Children at the Border, from PBS Frontline (free)

• Harvest of Empires: The Untold Story of Latinos in America, available on YouTube (free)

TV series / short videos (each episode = 1 learning activity)

• Immigration Nation, available on Netflix (subscription required; 6 episodes)

• Living Undocumented, available on Netflix (subscription required; 6 episodes)

• "Adam Ruins Immigration," from Adam Ruins Everything, available on HBOMax (subscription required)

Reading

• "The Long History of the U.S. Immigration Crisis," from Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2022. -- added 11.12.22

• Harvest of Empire, by Juan Gonzalez (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• The Line Becomes a River, by Francisco Cantu (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• Tell Me How It Ends, by Valeria Luiselli (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link

• The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (each chapter = 1 learning activity), Amazon link