The Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice has put together a comprehensive study guide that encourages reflection on how to understand yourself and your response to the struggles you witness and how to use that to better engage in solidarity and activism. It's hard to navigate but worthwhile: https://uucsj.org/study-guide/ Specific to immigration justice, UUCSJ also put out this great list:
- Learn more about the Immigration/ Deportation System
- Flowchart about the detention process
- Accompaniment After Detention Webinar by RAICES
- Learn more about Detention and How Folks Resist
- This American Life Podcast on ICE
- Radio Ambulante Podcast on Immigration Bonds
- Congresswomen Call for immediate closure of Tornillo tent shelter for Migrant Children, El Paso Times, December 4, 2018
- Homicides have fallen dramatically in Honduras. So why are people still fleeing?, LA Times, December 14, 2018
Other resources that I read:
- No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis: I read this while on the border. It is a radical socialist take on the need for pro-immigrant, pro-labor policies
- Really anything that the Migration Policy Institute has put out including the basic: Frequently Requested statistics on immigration
- On the border in El Paso, the migrants arrive so regularly there’s a housing crunch. LA Times. October 24, 2018
- Two pieces on how climate change impacts/causes migration:
- Changing climate forces desperate Guatemalans to migrate. National Geographic. October 23, 2018
- The unseen driver behind the migrant caravan: climate change. The Guardian. October 30, 2018
- Some abfab articles about the experience specific to LGBTQ refugees (that my buddy Kate Sosin wrote):
- http://www.newnownext.com/ice-transgender-asylum-seekers/07/2019/
- http://www.newnownext.com/gay-asylum-seeker-kenya-deported/08/2019/
- http://www.newnownext.com/senators-call-for-investigation-roxsana-hernandez-trans-asylum-seeker/11/2019/
- http://www.newnownext.com/ice-deleted-evidence-roxsana-hernandez-death-in-custody/10/2019/
- And one from Kate's buddy Thor Benson: http://www.newnownext.com/lgbtq-asylum-seekers-border/06/2019/
If you would like to donate fund or supplies or time and love to relevant organizations, I would suggest:
- Annunciation House: helps migrants with immediate needs like travel and clothing right after release from detention
- Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN): accompanies migrants in greater Boston to ICE appointments and court dates and advocates for migrants detained in the area
- Immigration Advocates: expands access to immigration legal resources and information
- The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES): does pretty much all of the above
And obviously check-in with your home faith-based communities for more (and more up-to-date) books and movies and articles and volunteer opportunities!
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