refugeelibraries.org - This website is sponsored by Urban Librarians Unite and is an attempt to reach across the library community to provide resources to better serve refugee populations.
Articles & News
"Immigrant Students Worry as Librarian Lends Support" by Deah Hester. School Library Journal, March 1, 2017.
"Best Kids Books About Immigrations and Refugees" by Jen Gann. New York Magazine, February 8, 2017.
Additional Resources
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Department of Homeland Security
Executive Office for Immigration Review - The United States Department of Justice
Resources for DACA and Undocumented Student (Framingham State University Libguide)
Form I-9 Inspection Overview - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Immigrant Rights - ACLU
National Map of Local Entanglement with ICE https://www.ilrc.org/local-enforcement-map - Immigrant Legal Resource Center
"How sanctuary cities work, and how Trump's executive order might affect them," by Darla Cameron. The Washington Post, January 25, 2017.
"Resisting Donald Trump: Getting prepared to fight immigration raids and deportations," by Sarah Lazare, Alternet. Salon, November 25, 2016.
ALA: Library Bill of Rights http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill
ALA: New Immigrants http://www.ala.org/tools/atoz/new-immigrants
ALA: Resolution on Replacing the Library of Congress Subject Heading "Illegal Aliens" with "Undocumented Immigrants http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/governance/council/council_documents/2016_mw_council_documents/cd_34_Resol_on_LC_Headings_11216_FINAL.pdf
ALA: Services to new Immigrants Libguide http://libguides.ala.org/c.php?g=622009&p=4332757
ALA: What is Sanctuary? http://www.ala.org/advocacy/what-sanctuary
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces that the Trump administration is rescinding DACA, former President Obama's 2012 executive order that established the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
As President Trump moves to end the Obama-era program that shields young undocumented immigrants from deportation, listen to a few of the 800,000 affected by the program.
