Essential Immigration Books for Understanding Policy and Experience

From Social Justice Books: A Project of Teaching for Change

Below are titles we recommend on immigration policy and politics, the immigrant experience, and human displacement due to many factors, including climate injustice, capitalism, and militarism, with a focus on the United States.

A collage of book covers focused on immigration stories, featuring titles like 'The Notebook Keeper,' 'Behind the Mountains,' 'The Rock in My Throat,' and others, set against a blue background with the text 'IMMIGRATION STORIES.'

See resources for teaching about immigration on the Zinn Education Project website and at TeachingCentralAmerica.org.

Titles that we recommend are featured below with cover images. The ones with reviews are noted with an asterisk (*). Some titles are recommended with a caveat. At the end of this page, we provide a list of titles on this theme, with reviews, that we do not recommend.