Wahoo! I turned in the final exam for my BIA course on Immigration Law! In the spirit of continued learning, I offer today a list of my favorite books about refugees and immigration, in no particular order. Happy reading!
- Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible, by M. Daniel Carroll R. and Ronald Sider
- Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate, by Matthew Soerens & Jenny Hwang
- Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis, by Stephan Bauman and Matthew Soerens
- Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a failed missionary on rediscovering faith, by D.L. Mayfield
- Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, by Helen Thorpe
- The Middle of Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come to Our Town, by Mary Pipher
- This Flowing Toward Me: A Story of God Arriving in Strangers, by Marilyn Lacey
- Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference, by Warren St. John
- God Grew Tired of Us, A Memoir: The Heartbreaking, Inspiring Journey of a Lost Boy of Sudan, by John Bul Dau with Michael S. Sweeney
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadiman
- What is the What: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: a novel, by Dave Eggers
- Refugee for Life: My Journey across Africa to Find a Place Called Home, by Innocent Magambi
- A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
- Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War, by Leymah Gbowee
- Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
- A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, by Linda Sue Park
- Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan, by Michael Hutt
- Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal, by Conor Grennan
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