Common Reader Fall 2008   Title: Coyotes Author: Ted Conover Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0-394-75518-9

• Professor Robert Ross lecture on immigration in Worcester is based on this paper:
  "Asia comes to Main Street and Might Learn to Speak Spanish: Immigration in a Poor Neighborhood in Worcester." 

• "The Great Divider"
  The novelist and short story writer George Saunders explores the border and spends time with the Minutemen in this essay for GQ. 

• Immigration in Massachusetts

  A five-part series from WBUR on immigration as an economic engine in the state of Massachusetts. Population loss in the state is throwing a new light on the reality of a growing immigrant population, one that is at a 50 year high. Listen to this special series to hear how Massachusetts is reacting to the change: Is an increasing immigrant population a problem for the state or part of an important economic opportunity?

• Massachusetts Immigration and Refuge Coalition

• Links to a number of NPR stories on immigration

• Sonia Nazario’s Pulitzer Prize winning L.A. Times expose on children who cross the border in search of parents who came to work in the U.S.

• Photos for Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

• Stories from American immigrants in their own words

• New York Times map of global migration—where people are going and where they are leaving.

• Immigration and Refugees
  New York Times writer Julia Preston tells six stories recounting struggles with the United States immigration system and asks readers to share their own immigration stories.            

• A CNN interview with Ted Conover about how illegal immigration works.

• From the National Catholic Reporter, a bio of Jim Corbet, founder of the Sanctuary Movement to shelter Central American refugees fleeing war and death squads in their homelands.

• An argument from an Arizona resident against building a wall along the southern border

• AAUP list of “books for understanding the immigration issue.”

• Photos and an essay about the Border Patrol in Arizona

• An essay from The Nation on the clampdown on undocumented workers in U.S. factories. 

• Immigration Watchdog—a website dedicated to the anti-immigration ‘movement’

• Marylin Halter’s essay for the San Francisco Chronicle about marketing to ethnicity.

• The Southern Poverty Law Center profiles 20 anti-immigration leaders.

• Youtube video of Max Blumenthal of The Nation discussing the anti-immigration movement.

• Youtube video of Minuteman Founder Jim GilchristThe Minutemen homepage

• Rush Limbaugh gives a set of rules that America should follow when dealing with immigration and illegal immigrants.

• Conservative talk-show host Glen Beck discusses immigration

• Conservative talk-show host Glen Beck produced this cartoon history of illegal Immigration.

• Photographs: rebellion on the Mexican border           

• Boa Vinda A Framingham—a Boston Globe article about the debate over Brazilian immigrants in Framingham

• The global economy 101—and introduction to the global economy

• Worried, frustrated immigrants headed back home to Brazil---from the Metro West Daily News

• For many immigrants heading north, the first crossing is at Mexico’s other border

• “Refugee Blues” W.H. Auden

• "Once in a Lifetime" a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri from The New Yorker

• "Hell Heaven" another story by Jhumpa Lahiri from The New Yorker

• "The House Behind a Weeping Cherry" a short story by Ha Jin from The New Yorker

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