Guidebooks and Toolkits for Immigration: Faithful Witness and Action

Unitarian Universalist Resources

• Welcoming Our Neighbors (PDF, 12 pages): An Immigration Resource for Unitarian Universalists
   
• Immigration Reform Toolkit
   
• Preparing for and Responding to Raids
   
• There is Power in Union (PDF, 18 pages): A Unitarian Universalist Guide to Supporting Worker Justice

Other Resources

• For You Were Once a Stranger (PDF, 112 pages)
  Interfaith Worker Justice. This comprehensive resource provides historical background, the faith perspective on immigration, and suggestions for taking action in your community. Published Spring 2007.
   
• The Bible as the Ultimate Immigration Handbook, (PDF, 10 pages): Written by, for, and about migrants, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers
  Joan M. Maruskin. A beautiful exploration of the Bible as a story of movement and hospitality towards the uprooted.
   
• Sojourners, September/October 2007 Issue
  Sojourners Magazine. Three articles and one interview online. This issue features a collection of pieces on sanctuary: "Sacred Refuge," "Living in God's House," "The Church is the Last Safe Haven," and "Standing Up for Sanctuary."
   
• Restoring the Right to Due Process (PDF, 20 page)
  Breakthrough, Detention Watch Network. A "tool kit" for immigrant rights advocates that explains how immigration policy passed in 1996 undermines the right to due process today. Includes ideas for activities and taking action.