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U.S. Immigration: Current Issues and Perspectives
U.S. Immigration: Effects on Communities and Immigrant Families
U.S. Immigration: Faith Connections
U.S. Immigration: Selected Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry
Global Trends in Immigration
Immigration On Film
Recommended Websites
Michigan's Immigrants
Selected Works By Our Speakers

U.S. Immigration: Current Issues and Perspectives

Abraham, Spencer, et al. Immigration and America's Future: A New Chapter: Report of the Independent Task Force on Immigration and America's Future. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Akers Chacón, Justin, et. al. No One is Illegal: Fighting Violence and State Repression on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Chicago, IL: Haymarket, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Barone, Michael. The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2001. Check HopeCAT.

Bean, Frank D., and Stephanie Bell-Rose, eds. Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity, and Employment in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. Check HopeCAT.

Beasley, Vanessa B., ed. Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Brettell, Caroline, ed. Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Fernandes, Deepa. Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration. New York: Seven Stories, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Fix, Michael. Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy: A Reader. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Foner, Nancy, and George M. Fredrickson, eds. Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Foner, Nancy. In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration. New York: New York UP, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Gozdziak, Elzbieta M., and Susan Forbes Martin. Beyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Graham, Otis L. Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Guskin, Jane, and David L. Wilson. The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers. New York: New York UP, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Haerens, Margaret, ed. Illegal Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Hing, Bill Ong. Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006.Check HopeCAT.

Jacoby, Tamar, ed. Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to be American. New York: Basic, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Lee, Joann Faung Jean. Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia. New York: New, 1992. Check HopeCAT.

LeMay, Michael C. Illegal Immigration: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Mahalingam, Ram. Cultural Psychology of Immigrants. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Myers, Dowell. Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Renshon, Stanley Allen. The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Roediger, David R. Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. New York: Basic, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Schildkraut, Deborah Jill. Press 'One' for English: Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Swain, Carol M. Debating Immigration. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Thompson, Gabriel. There’s No José Here: Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants. New York: Nation, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Tobar, Hector. Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States. New York: Riverhead, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

U.S. Immigration: Effects on Communities and Immigrant Families

Booth, Alan, Ann C. Crouter, and Nancy Landale, eds. Immigration and the Family: Research and Policy on U.S. Immigrants. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997. Check HopeCAT.

Garza, Encarnación, Pedro Reyes, and Enrique T. Trueba. Resiliency and Success: Migrant Children in the United States. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Kalita, S. Mitra. Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and their Passage from India to America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Lansford, Jennifer E., Kirby D. Deater-Deckard, and Marc H. Bornstein. Immigrant Families in Contemporary Society. New York: Guilford, 2007. Check HopeCAT. Loveless, Stephen C. Immigration and its Impact on American Cities. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. Check HopeCAT.

Martínez, Rubén, and Joseph Rodriguez. The New Americans. New York: New, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Martínez, Rubén. Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. New York: Metropolitan, 2001.Check HopeCAT.

Nazario, Sonia. Enrique's Journey. New York: Random House, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Nguyen, Tram. We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11. Boston: Beacon, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

U.S. Immigration: Faith Connections

Ebaugh, Helen Rose Fuchs, and Janet Saltzman Chafetz, eds. Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2000. Check HopeCAT.

Foley, Michael W., and Dean R. Hoge. Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form our Newest Citizens. New York: Oxford UP, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Griffin, Mark, and Theron Walker. Living on the Borders: What the Church Can Learn from Ethnic Immigrant Cultures. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Leonard, Karen Isaksen, ed. Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Levitt, Peggy. God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. New York: New, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

U.S. Immigration: Selected Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry

Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. Check HopeCAT.

Bogomolny, Abby. New to North America: Writing by U.S. Immigrants, their Children, and Grandchildren. New York: Burning Bush, 1997. Check HopeCAT.

Brown, Wesley, and Amy Ling, eds. Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land. New York: Persea, 1991. Check HopeCAT.

Crowley, Timothy F., and Jaki Shelton Green. Immigration, Emigration, Diversity: An Anthology. Chapel Hill, NC: Chapel Hill, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. New York: Villard, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Gillan, Maria M., and Jennifer Gillan, eds. Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction about Learning to be American. New York: Penguin, 1999. Check HopeCAT.

Grande, Reyna. Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel. New York: Atria, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Koeninger, Anthony. Farming the Moonlight: Poetic Patterns of Mexican-American, African-American, and Immigrant Life. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. Interpreter of Maladies: Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Check HopeCAT.

---. The Namesake. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Lim, Shirley, et. al., eds. The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology. Corvallis, OR: Calyx, 1989. Check HopeCAT.

Lueth, Elmar. No Such Country: Essays Toward Home. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2002. Check HopeCAT.

Mendoza, Louis Gerard, and Subramanian Shankar, eds. Crossing into America: The New Literature of Immigration. New York: New, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Nguyen, Bich Minh. Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir. New York: Viking, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

Sharat Chandra, G. S. Sari of the Gods: Stories. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House, 1998. Check HopeCAT.

Global Trends in Immigration

Aleinikoff, Thomas Alexander, et. al., eds. Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001. Check HopeCAT.

Cornelius, Wayne, et. al., eds. Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective. 2nd ed. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Kapur, Devesh, and John McHale. Give Us Your Best and Brightest: The Global Hunt for Talent and its Impact on the Developing World. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Papademetriou, Demetrios G., ed. Europe and its Immigrants in the 21st Century: A New Deal or a Continuing Dialogue of the Deaf? Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Sniderman, Paul M., and Louk Hagendoorn. When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and its Discontents in the Netherlands. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2007.Check HopeCAT.

Thomas, Dominic. Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Toro-Morn, Maura I., and Marixsa Alicea, eds. Migration and Immigration: A Global View. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Immigration On Film

America's Immigration Debate. Dir. Cadec Pictures, et. al. (26 min. dvd) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Building Bridges. Dir. Active Voice and Kartemquin Films. (49 min. dvd) Active Voice, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

“City of Dreamers.” Nightline. ABC News Productions. (23 min. dvd) 16 Feb. 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Cochise County, USA: Cries from the Border. Dir. Mercedes Maharis. (69 min. dvd) Genius Entertainment, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Crossing Arizona. Dir. Joseph Mathew and Dan DeVivo. (75 min. dvd) Rainlake Productions, 2005. This film will be available at the Van Wylen Library after a September run at the Knickerbocker Theatre located on the Hope College campus.

Day Without a Mexican, A. Dir. Sergio Arau, et. al. (95 min. dvd) Xenon Pictures, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Destination America (The People and Cultures that Created a Nation). Dir. David Grubin, et. al. (220 min. dvd) PBS Home Video, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

El Norte. Dir. Gregory Nava. (139 min. vhs tape) Norstar Home Video, 1983. Check HopeCAT.

Finding Community. Dir. Active Voice and Kartemquin Films. (60 min. dvd) Active Voice, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Letters from the Other Side. Dir. Heather Courtney. (73 min. dvd) Front Porch Films, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Los Trabajadores / The Workers. Dir. Heather Courtney. (48 min. dvd) New Day Films, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Lost Boys of Sudan. Dir. Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk. (87 min. dvd) New Video Group, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Maid in America. Dir. Anayansi Prado. (58 min. dvd) Women Make Movies, 2004.Check HopeCAT.

Mojados Through the Night. Dir. Tommy Davis and Sin Panache. (70 min. dvd) Vanguard Cinema, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Vietnamese-Americans: The New Generation. Dir. Vu-Duc Vuong. (33 min. dvd) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Patrolling the Border: National Security and Immigration Reform. Dir. Ted Koppel. (22 min. dvd) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Supporting Families. Dir. Active Voice and Kartemquin Films. (58 min. dvd) Active Voice, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary. Dir. Arturo Pérez Torres. (90 min. dvd) National Geographic, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Recommended Websites

Luis Alberto Urrea
The homepage of our opening keynote speaker. Includes his personal blog and background on his work.

Migration Policy Institute
An independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide. Reports and fact sheets on global immigration/migration issues.

New York Times Immigration Issues
Keep up with immigration news through The New York Times issues page.

Pew Hispanic Center
Founded in 2001, the Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The site offers a number of reports and fact sheets.

Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
The United States Office of Immigration Statistics provides data about immigrants and refugees in this publication.

Michigan's Immigrants

Alvarado, Rudolph. Mexicans and Mexican Americans in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Badaczewski, Dennis. Poles in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2002. Check HopeCAT.

Badillo, David A. Latinos in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Cantor, Judith Levin. Jews in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2001. Check HopeCAT.

Cetinich, Daniel. South Slavs in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Forrester, Alan T. Scots in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Frangos, Stavros. Greeks in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2004. Check HopeCAT.

Hancks, Jeffrey W. Scandinavians in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Hassoun, Rosina J. Arab Americans in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Helweg, Arthur Wesley. Asian Indians in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2002. Check HopeCAT.

Huseby-Darvas, Éva V. Hungarians in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2003. Check HopeCAT.

Kilar, Jeremy W. Germans in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2002. Check HopeCAT.

Magnaghi, Russell M. Cornish in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2007. Check HopeCAT.

---. Italians in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2001. Check HopeCAT.

Meija, Silvija D. Latvians in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Metress, Seamus P., and Eileen K. Metress. Irish in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Sengstock, Mary C. Chaldeans in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Ten Harmsel, Larry. Dutch in Michigan. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2002. Check HopeCAT.

Selected Works By Our Speakers

Pre-CIS Speaker Alejandro Portes

Immigrant America: A Portrait. 3rd ed., Berkeley: U of California P, 2006. Check HopeCAT.

Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. Check HopeCAT.

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley: U of California P, 2001. Check HopeCAT.

Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998. Check HopeCAT.

New Second Generation, The. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1996. Check HopeCAT.

Keynote Speaker Luis Alberto Urrea

Devil’s Highway, The: A True Story. New York: Back Bay, 2005. Check HopeCAT.

Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos, 2002. Check HopeCAT.

Vatos. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos, 2000. Check HopeCAT.

In Search of Snow: A Novel. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1999. Check HopeCAT.

Wandering Time: Western Notebooks. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1999. Check HopeCAT.

Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1998. Check HopeCAT.

Ghost Sickness. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos, 1997. Check HopeCAT.

Fever of Being, The: Poems. Albuquerque, NM: West End, 1994. Check HopeCAT.

Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border. New York: Anchor, 1993.Check HopeCAT.

Keynote Speaker Stephanie J. Nawyn

“Faith, Ethnicity, and Culture in Refugee Resettlement.” American Behavioral Scientist 49.11 (2006): 1509-1527. The full text of this article is accessible from Sociological Abstracts. Off-campus access is restricted to Hope College students, faculty, and staff.

Focus Session Speaker Jennifer Van Hook

“A Decomposition of Trends in Poverty Among Children of Immigrants.” Demography 41.4 (2004): 649-670. On-campus link to article. Off-campus, Hope College students, faculty, and staff may access article using ABI/INFORM Global via the Off-Campus Database List.

“The More Things Change the More they Stay the Same: Mexican Naturalization Before and After Welfare Reform.” International Migration Review 38.1 (2004): 113-131. On-campus link to article. Off-campus, Hope College students, faculty, and staff may access article using InfoTrac OneFile via the Off-Campus Database List.

Focus Session Speaker Andrew M. Yuengert

“Catholic Social Teaching on the Economics of Immigration.” Journal of Markets and Morality 3.1 (2000): 88-99. On-campus link to article. Off-campus, Hope College students, faculty, and staff may access article using HopeCAT. Search for Journal of Markets and Morality , click on web access link, follow login instructions, and navigate to Volume 3, issue 1.

“Testing Hypotheses of Immigrant Self-Employment.” The Journal of Human Resources 30.1 (1995): 194-205. On-campus link to article. Off-campus, Hope College students, faculty, and staff may access the article using ABI/INFORM Global via the Off-Campus Database List.

Focus Session Speaker Fariyal Ross-Sheriff

"Afghan Women in Exile and Repatriation: Passive Victims or Social Actors?" Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work 21.2 (2006): 206-220. On-campus link to article. Off-campus, Hope College students, faculty, and staff may access the article using the Journals List linked at the library home page.

"Cultural and Religious Contexts of Parenting by South Asian Muslim Mothers" in Immigrant Families in Contemporary Society. New York: Guilford, 2007: 194-211. Check HopeCAT.

"Globalization as a Women's Issue Revisited." Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work 22.2 (2007): 133-138. On-campus link to article. Off-campus, Hope College students, faculty, and staff may access the article using the Journals List linked at the library home page.