Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

Immigrants are motivated to leave their former countries of citizenship, or habitual residence, for a variety of reasons, including a lack of local access to resources, a desire for economic prosperity, to find or engage in paid work, to better their standard of living, fami
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Americanah
Solito
Inside Out & Back Again
The Undocumented Americans
American Dirt
Dreamers
Front Desk (Front Desk #1)
The Arrival
Exit West
Behold the Dreamers
The Sun Is Also a Star
Other Words for Home
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
The Book of Unknown Americans
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
I Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Diverse Voices
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Never My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniNever My Father's Daughter by Bamini SelladuraiThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Immigrant Experience Literature
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It's all fucking crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a pain in the fucking arse. ...more
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