Essential Reading from University Presses 

The movement of people from one place of residence to another is as old as humankind itself. So how and why does human migration collide with geopolitics periodically, resulting in the demonization of human beings who have chosen to migrate or been forced to flee?    

Association of University Presses members around the world have long published scholarly works that contribute to understanding even the most complex systems and contentious current events.  

Here is essential reading on migration and immigration—selected books, journal articles, and commentary from our member presses and their expert authors—for all who seek to understand these topics more deeply than they are represented in today’s headlines.  

Reading lists 

University of Alabama Press: Immigration reading list 

University of Arizona Press: Six Books on Immigration  

Beacon Press: Resources for Times of Fascists and Oligarchs: Immigration Dragnet 

Bristol University Press: Migration, mobilities, and movement 

University of British Columbia: Transnationalism, migration, immigration, emigration  

Bucknell University Press: Immigration and Humanistic Inquiry

American University in Cairo Press: Refugees and Migrants within the Middle East series 

University of California Press: “Immigrants are Los Angeles” (Instagram) 

Cambridge University Press: Immigration

Cornell University Press: Immigration

Duke University Press: Global Immigration 

University Press of Florida: Immigration: A Reading List 

Fordham University Press: Books for Understanding: A Reading List on Immigration

Georgetown University Press: Immigration in the United States: A Reading List 

University of Georgia Press: Immigration 

University of Illinois Press: National Immigrants Day reading list 

Johns Hopkins University Press: Immigration reading list

Leuven University Press: Migration Studies 

Marquette University Press: Promote Understanding: Immigration (Instagram)

McGill-Queen’s University Press: World Refugee Day 2025 

University of Michigan Press: Immigration Studies 

University of Minnesota Press: On Immigration 

Minnesota Historical Society Press: Immigration  

National Academies Press: Immigration Collection

University of Nebraska Press: Selected journal articles on migration (pdf) 

University of New South Wales Press: Immigration and Migration

University of North Carolina Press: Protest, Immigration, and Civic Action Reading List 

Ohio State University Press: Books to Read with the News: On Immigration 

Rutgers University Press: Emigration and Immigration  

National University of Singapore (NUS) Press: Migration, immigration, and diaspora

Stanford University Press: Immigration and its Dimensions 

SUNY Press: Immigration

Syracuse University Press: Books for Understanding: Immigration 

Temple University Press: Celebrating Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 

University of Texas Press: Border Studies 

University of Utah Press: We Celebrate Immigration 

Vanderbilt University Press: Books for Courses: Immigration and Geopolitics 

Washington State University Press: Immigrant Stories 

Wilfrid Laurier University Press: Immigration  

Individual works 

University of Alberta Press 

• The Elephant Has Two Sets of Teeth: Bhutanese Refugees and Humanitarian Governance 

American School of Classical Studies at Athens Publications

• In the Name of Humanity: American Relief Aid in Greece, 1918–1929
  
• The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture

University of Arkansas Press: 2 books by William A. Schwab 

• Dreams Derailed: Undocumented Youths in the Trump Era  

• Right to Dream: Immigration Reform and America’s Future 

Catholic University of America Press

• Refuge in the Lord: Catholics, Presidents, and the Politics of Immigration

Columbia University Press 

• “The Myth of the Xenophobic Voter” (blog post by Alexander Kustov, author of In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular) 

• Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions 

George Mason University Press 

• Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts 

Indiana University Press 

• Toppling the Melting Pot: Immigration and Multiculturalism in American Pragmatism 

IVP Academic

• Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics

Modern Language Association 

• Social Justice in Action 

• Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics 

University of Nevada Press 

• The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration’s Hidden Front Lines 

University of Oklahoma Press 

• This American Autopsy: Poems 

• Colonizing Ourselves: Tejano Back-to-Mexico Movements and the Making of a Settler Colonial Nation  

Oregon State University Press: 2 books 

• I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and Atrocities of War 

• Mexicanos in Oregon 

Penn State University Press

• Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant by Lisa A. Flores
• Disinventions: Rhetorics of Undocumented Immigration in the Deterrence Era by José Manuel Cortez

Princeton University Press 

• Podcast Interview with Asad L. Asad, author of Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life

West Virginia University Press

• north by north/west (an attention to frequency)