Nonfiction Books About ICE, Deportation, Camps, and Abuses of Power in the United States (Part 1)

Published on 16 April 2026 at 12:36

Welcome back! This resource series focuses on ICE and deportations in the United States. Painful experiences with ICE, immigration, seeking refuge, and deportation in the United States can impact people at any age, including children, young adults, and families. The nonfiction books below are written for adults. They bring a human element to stories about immigration, dealing with the pain of deportation, and the loss of safe harbor. You can also find resources, support, and information about your rights when dealing with ICE or other immigration officials in the links under this paragraph.

Resources Related to ICE and Deportation

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Books About ICE, Deportation, Camps, and Abuses of Power in the United States

  1. The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants by Adam Goodman (Politics and Society in Modern America)
  2. Separated: Inside an American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff (about the family separation crisis in US deportations)
  3. Humanitarian Borders: Unequal Mobility and Saving Lives by Polly Pallister-Wilkins
  4. One Mighty and Irresistible Tide by Jia Lynn Yang (a history of twentieth-century American immigration law)
  5. Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings by Joshua Clover (political and theoretical analysis of uprisings through generations)
  6. After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau (two women's struggle as refugees)
  7. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones (studying the refugee crisis)
  8. The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah (on the ancient history of migration)
  9. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism by Stephen Graham (about the spread of political violence in metropolitan spaces and the targeting of city-dwellers)
  10. The God Who Sees: Immigrants, the Bible, and the Journey to Belong by Karen Gonzalez (exploring biblical stories about migration)
  11. All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It by Daniel Denvir (on US history through the perspective of immigration politics)

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