Potential immigrants to the US from Nazi-occupied territory faced many obstacles, including restrictive quotas and complicated requirements for obtaining visas.

Informed Immigrant connects the undocumented immigrant community and service providers with the information and resources they need to become empowered in our current political environment.

Our Vision is Migration With Dignity. Stories

Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

Mission: The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.

Moving Walls is an annual documentary photography exhibition that showcases photographers exploring a variety of social justice and human rights issues.

Tomas Ayuso’s The Right to Grow Old, highlights the drivers and consequences of migration from Honduras, through and within Mexico, and to the United States, and explores its impact on the lives and identity of Hondurans.

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The United States has long been a global leader in the resettlement of refugees—and the need for such leadership remains enormous.

A community-led grassroots organization dedicated to building a radically inclusive and transformative movement which uplifts and defends human rights.

We Are a Movement

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a global organisation dedicated to saving lives and protecting the rights of refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Visit our website and find out how you can support us.

How we treat newcomers should reflect the values of fairness and equality that define the United States as a country.

We asked all state systems for book policies and ban lists, then created a database for you.

In June of 2022, Michigan Department of Corrections (“MDOC”) made national news when NPR reported that non-English language dictionaries were banned in state pr

Disproportionate violence against Indigenous persons in Canada includes uncounted disappearances of Indigenous children, women, and men. Canada’s decades of failure to prevent and halt disappearances forms part of a long litany of grave international human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples. Continued reports of officially hushed-up violence lead to increasingly clarion allegations of genocide. An unknown […]

Philadelphia city officials have announced a $9.25 million settlement with hundreds of people in lawsuits challenging the police response to protests in 2020 that followed the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Amid the American Dirt controversy, we asked authors of our favorite books about migration for their recommendations

These 10 books will help broaden your understanding of the immigration debate.

In these captivating books about immigration, authors recount deeply personal stories of migration, starting over, and learning to adjust to life in a foreign world.

These incredible books about immigration are heart-wrenching tales of families divided and reflections on identities in two distinctly different cultures.

There’s no shortage of talented Latinx writers with all kinds of stories to tell. Let’s make space for them.

Dive into coming of age stories and memoirs.

The 20 best immigration books recommended by Tim Wise, David Baddiel, The Agenda Tvo, Sarah Pulliam Bailey and Sree Sreenivasan Powerwomensummit.

Ana Minian weighs in on whether the US is 'a nation of immigrants,' and shares the five best books on the subject: "It should be possible to talk about the many contributions that immigrants made without erasing the histories of Native Americans, slaves, and migrant workers."

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In February, President Trump declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border. Last year, he ordered thousands of National Guard troops to the border. Is this the first time an American president has responded with this level of force? In this week's episode, the history of militarization at the U.S.-Mexico border.

CCIS scholars publish books on a wide variety of topics related to immigration. CCIS also publishes its own research, distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers or co-published with other university and commercial presses. For further information about these books and to order them, please click on the names or covers of the books.