Four Books Immigration Policy Makers Should Read

Janny Gandhi

Janny Gandhi, a current OU College of Law 1L, outlined a reading list for immigration policymakers back in 2014.

Her picks include:

• Little Bee by Chris Cleave (a work of fiction “about the intertwining lives of a British woman and a Nigerian girl… [who] is a refugee forced to reside in a British immigration detention center.”)

• Brother I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat (the “memoir of the niece of Joseph Danticat, an eighty-one-year-old Haitian minister who died after DHS authorities at a Florida detention center denied him medical treatment.”)

• Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives by Peter Orner (“a nonfiction compilation of stories from undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States.”)

• Detained: Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex by Michael Welch (addressing “the broken system of immigration detention centers through personal accounts of interviewees.”)

It’s clearly time to fire up those Kindles and hunker down with a good book.

-KitJ