Immigration Films
Here is a 2004 list of immigration-related films compiled by immigration law professors. Add your favorites, recent and not. Download immig.filmslist.doc
Speaking of immigration films, see Michael A. Olivas’s analysis of the classic immigration/asylum film El Norte in El Norte (1983): Immigration Mythology as Crossover Dream, in Rennard Strickland, Terre E. Foster, and Taunya Lovell Banks, eds. Screening Justice—The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order, and Justice (Hein, 2006), 465-470 (Ch. 35). Download el_norte_screening_justice_the_cinema_of_law_olivas.pdf
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