Since 2014, June has been celebrated as Immigrant Heritage Month in the United States. Here at the Krupp Library, we’ve chosen a few of our favorite books about the immigrant experience to feature!
What is Immigrant Heritage Month?
Immigrant Heritage Month was founded in 2014 by The I Stand With Immigrants / I Am An Immigrant Initiative, an organization that “encourages all Americans to celebrate the monumental contributions that immigrants have made—and continue to make—every day” through narrative and artistic online campaigns. These campaigns have included video projects, photo essays, and “Story Boxes,” mystery boxes containing products from immigrant-owned small businesses. You can visit their website to learn more about each year’s unique project for Immigrant Heritage Month.
On Display
Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement by Sarah C. Bishop (2019, Oxford University Press).
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui (2017, Abrams ComicArts).
Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration by Donatella Di Cesare (2020, Polity).
Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi (2020, Alfred A. Knopf).
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid by William D. Lopez (2019, Johns Hopkins University Press).
This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto by Suketu Mehta (2019, Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
A Woman is No Man: A Novel by Etaf Rum (2020, Harper Perennial).
Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience by Patrice Vecchione (2019, Seven Stories Press).
Ebooks
Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda (2023, Duke University Press).
On Transits and Transitions: Trans Migrants and U.S. Immigration Law by Tristan Josephson (2022, Rutgers University Press).
Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic by John McNelis O’Keefe (2021, Cornell University Press).
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America by Thurka Sangaramoorthy (2023, University of North Carolina Press).
Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance by Jordana Silverstein (2021, Australian National University Press).