Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social service, arts, and health care programs.
Lillian Wald Symposium 2024 Booklist
Curated by our friends at Bluestockings Bookstore! Purchase your book below:
Memoirs:
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You, Dina Nayeri
Asylum: A Memoir and Manifesto, Edafe Okporo
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration, Alejandra Oliva
Solito, A Memoir, Javier Zamora
U.S. Immigration System:
Cruelty As Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy, Christina Beltran
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America, Nancy Foner
A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move, Rachel Ida Buff
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Valeria Luiselli
Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform our Racist and Unjust System, Bill Ong Hing
Borders:
Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism, Harsha Walia
Undoing Border Imperialism, Harsha Walia
The Case for Open Borders, John Washington
Historical Roots of Migration from Central and South America:
Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration, Aviva Chomsky
Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela by Alejandro Velasco
NYC & Lower East Side Focus:
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York by Tyler Anbinder
One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century, Nancy Foner
Children’s Books:
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation, Edwidge Danticat
Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey to Palestine, Rifk Ebeid
