Our “Read to Respond” series addresses the current climate of misinformation by highlighting articles and books that encourage thoughtful, educated debate on today’s most pressing issues. This post focuses on immigration in commemoration with World Refugee Day, an international movement that supports families forced to flee and honors the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. Read, reflect, and share these resources in and out of the classroom to keep these important conversations going.
Migration Studies
- “The Big Question: What Role Does the Media Play in Driving Xenophobia?”
Natasha Bluth, Melody Chan, J. Olaf Kleist, Antony Loewenstein, Dominique Trudel, Ekaterina Zabrovskaya, and Sydette Harry
World Policy Journal, volume 34, issue 1
Spring 2017 - “The Gates of Greece: Refugees and Policy Choices”
Ismini A. Lamb
Mediterranean Quarterly, volume 27, issue 2
June 2016 - How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
Edited by Susan Eckstein and Adil Najam
2013 - “Categories and Queues: The Structural Realities of Gender and the South African Asylum System”
B Camminga
Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 4, number 1
February 2017 - “Immigration Detention: No Turning Back?”
Jennifer M. Chacón
South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 113, number 3
Summer 2014 - “The Illegalities of Brownness”
Armando García
Social Text, number 123
June 2015
- Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Catherine Besteman
2016 - “Regulating Borders and Bodies: U.S. Immigration and Public Health Policy” by Natalia Molina in Body and Nation: The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick
2014 - The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Erica Rand
2005 - Special Section: “Immigration”
Tikkun, volume 28, number 3
Summer 2013
These articles are freely available until December 15, 2017. Follow along with the series over the next several months and share your thoughts with #ReadtoRespond.
