Social Movements & the Law

For over 25 years, we have worked to secure safe haven, the freedom to live openly, and equality for the LGBTQ community.

A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity.

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.

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 […]

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.

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

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."

A nation of immigrants: This is a convenient myth developed as a response to the 1960s movements against colonialism, neocolonialism, and white supremacy. The ruling class and its brain trust offered multiculturalism, diversity, and affirmative action in response to demands for decolonization, justice, reparations, social equality, an end of imperialism, and the rewriting of history -- not to be "inclusive" -- but to be accurate. What emerged to replace the liberal melting pot idea and the nationalist triumphal interpretation of the "greatest country on earth and in history," was the "nation of immigrants" story.

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.

Immigration debates flood news sources today, but the stories of those who flee their homes in search of new opportunities often get shoved to the margins.

DREAMers, DACA, and DAPA by SCCLDcitizenship - a staff-created list : Undocumented, and unafraid! Books and online resources about immigrant youth and their parents in pursuit of the American Dream!

If you struggle to put into words how you feel about living in a new country, try reading someone else’s story. Reading a similar story to your own will confirm and awaken your feelings on your life in America. Reading books will give you a sense a validation. It’s like the authors are all telling… Read More

Scott McLemee highlights some new and upcoming books that are relevant to the current border crisis.