Resources
Hostile Terrain 94 - Home of the project
Los Tigres Norte on Immigration - Spotify Playlist.
HT94 Reflections - Playlists created by students in the CentreTerm class.
Podcasts and Links - A variety of podcats on immigrants and immigration.
Reading List - Books the UMP recommends for both adults and children.
Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) - The UMP raises global awareness about this humanitarian crisis while working to inspire positive social change and immigration reform.
Ways to Get Involved - A list of organizations that can help you make a lasting impact.
Books from the syllabus
Haff, Stephen. Kid Quixotes
“Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of deportation, Still Waters is a refuge. For Stephen Haff, a former public-school teacher, it is the sanctuary he built following a breakdown caused by bipolar depression. At Still Waters, all agreed that there would only be one rule: “Everyone listens to everyone.” And this has unlocked spectacular potential.”
- Immigrants Have Voices!
Mayers, Stephen, ed. Solito, Solita, Crossing Border with Youth Refugees from Central America
“They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita (Alone, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells—in their own words—the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States.”
- “I believe that telling one’s story is a way of healing” by Soledad Castillo.
“This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun."