Resources
Find Immigrant Justice Organizations Near You
Alphabetical by State
- Colorado: Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Idaho: Welcoming Idaho
- Florida: Coalition of Immokalee Workers
- Massachusetts: Welcoming Massachusetts
- Mississippi: Interfaith Justice Advocacy Movement
- Nebraska: Nebraska is Home
- New York: Long Island Wins
- North Carolina: Uniting NC; El Pueblo
- Oregon: Oregon New Sanctuary Movement
- Tennessee: Welcoming Tennessee; Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
- Also see: National Council of La Raza Local Affiliates
Unitarian Universalist (UU) Welcoming Massachusetts Congregations (PDF)
Unitarian Universalist Organizations
- No More Deaths
Provides humanitarian aid to border crossers. Official ministry of UU Church of Tucson.
- UU Refugee and Immigrant Services and Education, Inc. (UURISE)
Provides low-cost immigration counseling and representation, refugee resettlement services, educational and advocacy programs, and outreach to immigrant victims of human trafficking, persecution, torture, domestic violence and other crimes.
Other Organizations
- National Immigration Forum
The country's leading immigrant advocacy organization.
- Immigration Equality
Advancing equal immigration rights for the BGLT & HIV-positive community.
- Interfaith Immigration Coalition
Partnership of national faith-based organizations, including the UUA, working for immigrant justice.
- Detention Watch Network
Educates about the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system.
- America's Voice
Communications campaign working to achieve common-sense immigration reform.
- Interfaith Worker Justice
Mobilizing the religious community to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers.
Unitarian Universalist Resources
- Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Immigration News E-Updates
Enter your info, check the box next to "Immigration," and click the "Submit" button.
- Welcoming Our Neighbors (PDF, 12 pages): An Immigration Resource for Unitarian Universalists
- 101 Ways to Work for Immigration Justice
Includes books, films, art projects, etc.
- Preparing for and Responding to Raids
- UU Service Committee (UUSC) Statement on Immigration
- 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 pages)
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.
Books
- "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Aviva Chomsky. Beacon Press. 264 pages. Read the whole thing, or pick a few myths that seem particularly interesting.
- Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
David Bacon. Beacon Press. 272 pages.
- Kids Like Me: Voices of the Immigrant Experience
Judith M. Blohm & Terri Lipinksy. Intercultural Press. 296 pages. An appealing and accessible book with 26 narratives written by children and young adults describing their experience as immigrants in the United States. The individual narratives are short, and can be read on their own.
- Coming to America (2nd Edition): A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Roger Daniels. Harper Perennial. 576 pages.
Films
- Made in L.A.
Determined to win basic protections in the Los Angeles sweatshops where they work, three Latina immigrants embark on a three year odyssey that will transform their lives forever. From April 15th and May 31st, 2009, the filmmakers are inviting national organizations, grassroots groups, congregations and individuals across the country to organize screenings, house parties, and actions around Made in L.A. in a nationwide effort to support humane immigration reform. Learn more about the Community Screening Campaign.
- The Least of These
Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover troubling conditions at the facility. Watch free online at SnagFilms. Learn more at the film's website. Running time is just over one hour, making this a good film for a discussion night event that can fit into easily into peoples' schedules.
- Sentenced Home
Sentenced Home follows three young Cambodian Americans through the deportation process. Raised in inner city Seattle, they pay an unbearable price for mistakes they made as teenagers. Watch free online at SnagFilms, learn more on PBS's Independent Lens page.
- abUSed: The Postville Raid
This full-length documentary tells the story of one of the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace raids ever by weaving together the personal stories of individuals, families, and townspeople directly affected by the events of May 12, 2008. Although the full video is not yet released, the 8 minute trailer on the website is very powerful.
- The Visitor
In this fictional drama, an American college professor and a young immigrant couple grapple with the treatment of immigrants and the legal process post-9/11. The film makers are using the film to call attention to issues of due process, detention and deportation. Learn more.
For more information contact socialjustice@uua.org.
Last updated on Friday, February 19, 2010.
