nonfiction books to radicalize you about ICE & borders
created by wednesdaymourning
last updated February, 2026
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent
James Duane
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States
Maya Schenwar
The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
Saket Soni
No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants
Alina Das
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
Reece Jones
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Tyler Anbinder
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration From the Front Lines
Efr�n C Olivares
Twelve Unending Summers: Memoir of an Immigrant Child
Cholet Kelly Josue
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
Daniel Okrent
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
Maya Goodfellow
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
Nicole Chung
Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child's 3,000-Mile Journey
Gena Thomas
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Seth Holmes
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World (Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, #3)
Elena Favilli
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
Nikesh Shukla
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Simu Liu
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Mayukh Sen
Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist
Jenn Budd
Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights Open Media)
Todd Miller
Learning America: One Woman's Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children
Luma Mufleh
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World
Malala Yousafzai
Homes: A Refugee Story
Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown
Undocumented Motherhood: Conversations on Love, Trauma, and Border Crossing
Elizabeth Farfán-Santos
Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants
Abigail Andrews
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood
Wang Qian Julie
Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives
Peter Orner
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