We Recommend
Check out some of our team’s favorite books, social media accounts, and other resources that could start (or enhance) your learning journey! The best way to learn about the immigrant and refugee experience is through the voices of those who have lived it, so we have indicated “own voices” with an asterisk throughout this page to make it easier to find resources from those with their own immigration experience.
Keep exploring and let us know what resources you would recommend!
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri*
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue*
The God Who Sees by Karen Gonzalez*
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen*
Somewhere in the Unknown World by Kao Kalia Yang*
Brave Histories and Hopeful Futures: Voices of a Refugee Community by Refugee Hope Partners and Literacy and Community Initiative*
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas*
Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli*
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung*
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park*
The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya*
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel*
Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah*
Honor by Thrity Umigar*
The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim*
Corinth 2642 AD by Bindiya Schaefer*
Invisible by Grace Ji-Sun Kim*
Illegal Among Us: A Stateless Woman's Quest for Citizenship by Martine Kalaw*
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri*
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani (Juvenile Fiction)*
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat*
Front Desk series by Kelly Yang (Juvenile Fiction)*
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga (Juvenile Fiction)*
Beyond Welcome by Karen Gonzalez*
No Longer Strangers: Transforming Evangelism with Immigrant Communities edited by Eugene Cho and Samira Page
Inalienable: How Marginalized Kingdom Voices Can Help Save the American Church by Eric Costanzo, Daniel Yang, and Matthew Soerens
After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau
When You Can’t Go Home by Karisa Keasey
The Myth of the American Dream D.L. Mayfield
Crossing Borders by Ali Noorani
Love Undocumented by Sarah Quezada
Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens & Jenny Yang
Separated by the Border Gena Thomas
A Better Country by Cindy Wu
The Refugee Ocean by Pauls Toutonghi
The Name Jar by Yansook Choi*
Carmela Full of Wishes by Daniel de la Peña
Adriana's Angels by Ruth Goring
The Arabic Quilt: An immigrant Story by Aya Khalil
Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Mendez
I’m New Here and Someone New by Anne Sibley O’Brien
Between Us and Abuela by Mitali Perkins
A Different Pond by Bao Phi*
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale by Duncan Tonatiuh
The Journey by Francesca Sanna
The Brothers Zzli by Alex Cousseau
Facing Fear by Karen Lynn Williams
Vanishing Colors by Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen
Four Feet, Two Sandals by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed*
Kristel Acevedo: IG/Twitter/FB/Website
Lola Adeyemo: IG
Chasing Justice: IG/FB/Website
Refugee Congress: IG/Twitter/FB/Website
Define American: IG/Twitter/FB
Refugee Story Project: IG
Karen Gonzalez: IG/Twitter/Website
United We Dream: IG/Twitter/FB/Website
Haitian Bridge Alliance: IG/FB
Jose Antonio Vargas: IG/Twitter/Website
Martine Kalaw: IG
Kao Kalia Yang: Twitter/FB/Website
Grace Ji-Sun Kim: IG
Edafe Okporo Website
Refugee & Immigrant Owned Non-profits & Social Enterprises
Be Kinder Coffee
Refugee by Alan Gatz
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai*
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park*
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga *
Front Desk (whole series) by Kelly Yang*
Asylum Speakers (The Journey series)
Oh Mercy - Searching for Hope in the Promised Land - Worldwide Documentaries
Seeking Refuge - BBC
The Stranger Film - Evangelical Immigration Table
Who is Welcome Here - Women of Welcome
ACROSS docuseries