Libraries Respond: Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers

ALA Resolutions

• ALA Resolution on Improving Access to Spanish, Bilingual, and Books in Various Languages for Children in Detention Centers, 2015-2016 CD#38_Revised-2_63015_FINAL (2015 ALA Annual Conference)

• ALA Resolution on Replacing the Library of Congress Subject Heading "Illegal Aliens" with "Undocumented Immigrants", 2015-2016 ALA CD#34_11216_FINAL (2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting)

• ALA Resolution in Support of Immigrant Rights, 2006-2007 CD#20.2 (ALA Midwinter Meeting)

ALA Statements

• ALA outraged by the refugee family separation policy 

• ALA Opposes new administration policies that contradict core values 

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ALA Resources (Webinars, Toolkits, Libguides)

• A Guide to Books on the Experience of Immigrant Children and Teens from ALA Publishing

• ALA Library Bill of Rights

• ALA New Immigrants, from ALA A to Z List of Resources

• ALA Services to new Immigrants Libguide

• ALA Suggested Guidelines: How to Respond to Law Enforcement Requests for Library Records and User Information

• ALA What is Sanctuary?

• Celebrating Welcoming Week: A Guide for Libraries

• Diversity Research Grant: Beyond Broken Borders: Examining Library Services to Latino & Spanish Speaking Populations in New Latino South States with Anit-Immigration Laws (2012)

• Everyday Advocacy: An Initiative of ALSC, a Division of ALA

• Family Separation Post from Madeleine Ildefonso, Los Angeles Public Library, ALA Connect Post June 2018

• Guidelines for Outreach to Immigrant Populations (Toolkit) Prepared Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table of the American Library Association 

• International Relations Round Table of the American Library Association Initiatives

• New Americans Library Project

• Project Welcome: Libraries and Community Anchors Planning for Resettlement and Integration of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
  IMLS Funded Planning Grant; Partnership with the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs and ALA

• PLA & ODLOS "Starting Immigration Services at Your Library" (Webinar)

• PLA Adult Learning Resources

Additional Resources

• American Immigration Lawyers Association

• Executive Office for Immigration Review - The United States Department of Justice

• Form I-9 Inspection Overview - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

• Immigration Advocates Network

• Immigrant Rights - ACLU

• Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) Resources

  • Family Separation at Border

  • Family Separation at Border in Spanish

  • How You Can Help

• Know Your Rights! Protect Yourself Against Immigration Raids. Deportation Defense Cards in Arabic, Chinese, English, Korean and Spanish

• National Map of Local Entanglement with ICE - Immigrant Legal Resource Center

• refugeelibraries.org - This website is sponsored by Urban Librarians Unite and is an attempt to reach across the library community to provide resources to better serve refugee populations.

• REFORMA Children in Crisis Project: Books & Library Connections for Unaccompanied Refugee Children

• Resources for DACA and Undocumented Students(Framingham State University Libguide)

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Department of Homeland Security

Responding to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

• Know Your Rights with ICE

• Informed Immigrant-Resources 101: Important Info for Immigrants & Allies

• The Immigrant Resource Legal Center

  • Family Preparedness Plan in English and Spanish

• Black Alliance for Just Immigration Network. 

• ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom has an "Issue at a Glance: Visits and Requests from Law Enforcement Concerning library Records and User Information," that may offer some insight

Articles & News 

• "Here's How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border" by Dahlia Lithwick and Margo Schlanger. Slate.com, June 15, 2018

• "Immigrant Students Worry as Librarian Lends Support" by Deah Hester. School Library Journal, March 1, 2017

• "Best Kids Books About Immigrations and Refugees" by Jen Gann. New York Magazine, February 8, 2017

• "How sanctuary cities work, and how Trump's executive order might affect them," by Darla Cameron. The Washington Post, January 25, 2017

• "Resisting Donald Trump: Getting prepared to fight immigration raids and deportations," by Sarah Lazare, Alternet.  Salon, November 25, 2016

Posters

• Micah Bazant PDF Posters