Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. New York: Knopf, 2013.

_______. Half of a Yellow Sun. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Budhos, Marina. Ask Me No Questions. New York: Simon and Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2007.

Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names. New York: Little, Brown, 2013.

Cao, Lan. The Lotus and the Storm. New York: Penguin, 2014.

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918. Reprint, New York: Dover, 1994.

Craig, Charmaine. Miss Burma. New York: Grove, 2017.

Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. New York: Knopf, 2016.

Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West. New York: Riverhead, 2017.

Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation. New York: Riverhead, 2010.

Matar, Hisham. The Return. New York: Random House, 2016.

Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers. New York: Random House, 2016.

Minot, Susan. Thirty Girls. New York: Knopf, 2014.

Murad, Nadia. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State. New York: Tim Duggan, 2017.

Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer. New York: Grove, 2015.

Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk to Water. Boston: Clarion, 2010.

Roy, Arundhati. The Ministry of Upmost Happiness. New York: Knopf, 2017.

See, Lisa. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. New York: Scribner, 2017.

Yousafzai, Malala. We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World. New York: Little, Brown, 2019.

To learn more, volunteer, or donate, the following websites are solid places to start. Descriptions are taken from or based on the organizations’ mission statements.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

“The fundamental constitutional protections of due process and equal protection embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights apply to every person, regardless of immigration status. . . . The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them.” https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights

Human Rights Watch

“Human Rights Watch’s Refugee Rights Program defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and displaced people worldwide. We respond to emergencies as well as chronic situations, focusing especially on documenting government efforts to block access to asylum, to deprive asylum seekers of rights to fair hearings of their refugee claims, and to the forcible return of people to places where their lives or freedom would be threatened. We conduct on-the-ground investigations to speak with uprooted people and document abuses against them. We take our findings directly to policy-makers and the media as we advocate for governments to improve access to asylum, to stop forced returns, and to ensure that all migrants are treated with dignity and regard for their basic human rights.” https://www.hrw.org/topic/refugee-rights

International Refugee Assistance Project

The International Refugee Assistance Project “organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons.” https://refugeerights.org

International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee “responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and regain control of their future.” https://www.rescue.org

Lutheran Family Services

Lutheran Family Services has branches across the U.S. The Nebraska branch’s mission is to “express God’s love for all people by providing quality human care services that build and strengthen individual, family, and community life.” https://www.lfsneb.org

National Immigration Law Center

NILC is “dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.” https://www.nilc.org

The Refugee Law Reader

The Refugee Law Reader: Cases, Documents and Materials is a comprehensive online model curriculum for the study of the complex and rapidly evolving field of international refugee law, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The Reader is for professors, lawyers, advocates, and students across a wide range of national jurisdictions.

www.refugeelawreader.org/en/about-the-reader.html

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

“UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people.” http://www.unhcr.org

World Food Program

“WFP is the leading humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty.” http://www1.wfp.org

Yazda Global Organization

Yazda is a multinational association that began after the Yazidi Genocide in 2014. Yazda’s goal is to “build a stronger Yazidi community that can socially and culturally integrate into the U.S. and to preserve the Yazidi culture at the same time.” https://www.yazda.org