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{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Radio Ambulante|year=2011–|creator=NPR (Spanish)|blurb=Long-form Latin American and US-Latino stories, many tracing migration and its aftermath.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Ambulante}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Radio Ambulante|year=2011–|creator=NPR (Spanish)|blurb=Long-form Latin American and US-Latino stories, many tracing migration and its aftermath.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Ambulante}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Latino USA|year=1993–|creator=NPR / Futuro Media|blurb=The long-running radio show and podcast covering immigration, enforcement and Latino life in the US.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_USA}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Latino USA|year=1993–|creator=NPR / Futuro Media|blurb=The long-running radio show and podcast covering immigration, enforcement and Latino life in the US.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_USA}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Separated|year=2024|creator=Errol Morris|blurb=Investigates the Trump administration's family-separation policy through interviews and reenactments, based on Jacob Soboroff's book.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separated_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Fire at Sea|year=2016|creator=Gianfranco Rosi|blurb=Golden Bear winner at Berlin and Oscar-nominated portrait of the migrant crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_at_Sea}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Human Flow|year=2017|creator=Ai Weiwei|blurb=Filmed over a year in 23 countries following some of the world's forcibly displaced people; premiered in competition at Venice.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Flow}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Midnight Traveler|year=2019|creator=Hassan Fazili|blurb=An Afghan family films their own flight from the Taliban on three phones.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Traveler}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Flee|year=2021|creator=Jonas Poher Rasmussen|blurb=Animated documentary of a gay Afghan refugee; first film Oscar-nominated for Animated, Documentary and International Feature at once.|link=https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/flee}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Stateless|year=2020|creator=Michèle Stephenson|blurb=Follows Dominicans of Haitian descent after a 2013 court ruling stripped citizenship, rendering over 200,000 people stateless.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=The Facility|year=2021|creator=Seth Freed Wessler|blurb=Short film shot via video calls inside a Georgia ICE detention center during COVID-19.|link=https://time.com/6121979/immigrants-ice-facility-film/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Borderland: The Line Within|year=2024|creator=Pamela Yates|blurb=Examines the profit-driven "border industrial complex" of immigration enforcement.|link=https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/borderland-cbp-raid-humanitarian-aid-camp/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Who Is Dayani Cristal?|year=2013|creator=Marc Silver|blurb=Traces an unidentified migrant's body found in the Arizona desert; features Gael García Bernal.|link=https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/who-is-dayani-cristal}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=God Grew Tired of Us|year=2006|creator=Christopher Dillon Quinn|blurb=Follows three "Lost Boys of Sudan" from a Kenyan refugee camp to U.S. resettlement.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Grew_Tired_of_Us}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=The Donut King|year=2020|creator=Alice Gu|blurb=Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a California donut empire and sponsors fellow refugees.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Donut_King}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Lost in Detention|year=2011|creator=FRONTLINE (PBS)|blurb=Investigates abuse in immigrant detention and the Secure Communities program.|link=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/lost-in-detention/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Caught in the Crackdown|year=2025|creator=FRONTLINE / ProPublica|blurb=Investigates the treatment of protesters and bystanders during Trump-era immigration sweeps.|link=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/caught-in-the-crackdown/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=For Sama|year=2019|creator=Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts|blurb=A mother's first-person chronicle of the Aleppo siege and the decision to flee.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Sama}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Si Bondye vle, Yuli (God Willing, Yuli)|year=2016|creator=Jean Jean|blurb=A Haitian woman in the Dominican Republic fights to regularize status and avoid deportation; Amnesty prize winner. (Limited availability.)|link=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/09/new-documentary-on-migration-and-discrimination-in-hispaniola-wins-amnesty-prize/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Whose Land? O'odham Land!|year=2021|creator=Tohono O'odham community filmmakers|blurb=Documents how the border wall divides the Tohono O'odham Nation and desecrates ancestral sites. (Limited availability.)|link=https://www.documentary.org/project/whose-land-oodham-land}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=El mar la mar|year=2017|creator=J.P. Sniadecki, Joshua Bonnetta|blurb=Experimental 16mm portrait of the Sonoran Desert and its border crossings. (Limited availability.)|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_mar_la_mar}}
{{Culture pick|type=Documentary|title=Notturno|year=2020|creator=Gianfranco Rosi|blurb=Meditative portrait of life along Middle Eastern borders scarred by war and displacement.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notturno_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=El Norte|year=1983|creator=Gregory Nava|blurb=Foundational film following Maya siblings fleeing Guatemala to "the North."|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Norte_(1983_film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Gran Torino|year=2008|creator=Clint Eastwood|blurb=A veteran's bond with his Hmong refugee neighbors confronts his prejudice.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Torino}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Maria Full of Grace|year=2004|creator=Joshua Marston|blurb=A pregnant Colombian teen becomes a drug mule bound for New York.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Full_of_Grace}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=The Swimmers|year=2022|creator=Sally El Hosaini|blurb=True story of Syrian sisters Yusra and Sara Mardini fleeing to Europe by sea.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swimmers_(2022_film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Io Capitano|year=2023|creator=Matteo Garrone|blurb=Two Senegalese teens' journey across the Sahara and Mediterranean to Italy; Silver Lion winner and Oscar nominee.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_Capitano}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Minari|year=2020|creator=Lee Isaac Chung|blurb=A Korean American family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minari_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)|year=2007|creator=Patricia Riggen|blurb=A boy crosses the border to find his undocumented mother working in Los Angeles.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Same_Moon}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Mo|year=2022|creator=Mo Amer, Ramy Youssef|blurb=Semi-autobiographical comedy of a Palestinian family awaiting asylum in Houston.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_(TV_series)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Party of Five|year=2020|creator=Amy Lippman, Christopher Keyser|blurb=Five siblings fend for themselves after their parents are deported to Mexico.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Five_(2020_TV_series)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=First They Killed My Father|year=2017|creator=Angelina Jolie|blurb=A child's survival under the Khmer Rouge, based on Loung Ung's memoir.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Killed_My_Father_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=The Good Lie|year=2014|creator=Philippe Falardeau|blurb=Sudanese war orphans resettle in the American Midwest; features real former Lost Boys.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Lie}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Persepolis|year=2007|creator=Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud|blurb=Animated memoir of a girl's exile from revolutionary Iran to Europe.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persepolis_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Dheepan|year=2015|creator=Jacques Audiard|blurb=Tamil refugees pose as a family to seek asylum in France; Palme d'Or winner.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dheepan}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=The Namesake|year=2006|creator=Mira Nair|blurb=A Bengali immigrant family navigates identity across generations in New York.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Namesake_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=My Beautiful Laundrette|year=1985|creator=Stephen Frears|blurb=A young British-Pakistani man and his lover confront racism in Thatcher-era London.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Beautiful_Laundrette}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Sleep Dealer|year=2008|creator=Alex Rivera|blurb=Sci-fi imagining a future of "virtual" migrant labor across a militarized border.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=In the Heights|year=2021|creator=Jon M. Chu|blurb=Musical of a Dominican American neighborhood in Washington Heights, including an undocumented character.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heights_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=The Brutalist|year=2024|creator=Brady Corbet|blurb=A Hungarian Jewish architect rebuilds his life in postwar America.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brutalist}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Brooklyn|year=2015|creator=John Crowley|blurb=An Irish immigrant builds a new life in 1950s Brooklyn.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_(film)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=I'm No Longer Here (Ya no estoy aquí)|year=2019|creator=Fernando Frías de la Parra|blurb=A Monterrey teen flees cartel threats to an isolating exile in New York.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_No_Longer_Here}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Identifying Features (Sin señas particulares)|year=2020|creator=Fernanda Valadez|blurb=A mother searches for her son who vanished migrating north.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifying_Features}}
{{Culture pick|type=Film & TV|title=Little America|year=2020|creator=Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, Lee Eisenberg|blurb=Anthology series dramatizing true stories of immigrants in America.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_America_(TV_series)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=El Hielo (ICE)|year=2013|creator=La Santa Cecilia|blurb=Narrates three undocumented workers living under the constant fear of ICE.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hielo_(ICE)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)|year=2016|creator=K'naan feat. Residente, Riz MC, Snow Tha Product|blurb=Hip-hop anthem on immigrant labor from The Hamilton Mixtape.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrants_(We_Get_the_Job_Done)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Debí Tirar Más Fotos|year=2025|creator=Bad Bunny|blurb=Album engaging displacement and diaspora; its opening track voices a message defending immigrants.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuevayol}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=La Bala / 1977|year=2010|creator=Ana Tijoux|blurb=Rapper born to Chilean exiles whose work engages exile, identity and injustice.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Tijoux}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Clandestino (Al Chile version)|year=2019|creator=Lila Downs|blurb=Reworks Manu Chao's song to address detained migrant children at the U.S. border.|link=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/lila-downs-manu-chao-clandestino-al-chile-823647/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Across the Borderline|year=1987|creator=Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Dickinson|blurb=Ballad about the perils and false promises awaiting those who cross into the U.S.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Borderline}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=City of Immigrants|year=2007|creator=Steve Earle|blurb=Celebrates New York as a city built by immigrants.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_Serenade}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=A Safe Place to Land|year=2019|creator=Sara Bareilles feat. John Legend|blurb=Ballad about families and children seeking refuge at the southern border.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Safe_Place_to_Land}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Matamoros Banks|year=2005|creator=Bruce Springsteen|blurb=Traces, in reverse, a migrant who drowns crossing the Rio Grande.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_%26_Dust}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Across the Wire|year=2003|creator=Calexico|blurb=Border-rock song depicting a desert crossing into Arizona.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Wire}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=The Immigrants|year=2018|creator=Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks|blurb=Single condemning the family-separation policy and detention conditions.|link=https://www.npr.org/sections/altlatino/2018/07/11/626537505/protesting-trumps-immigration-policy-through-song}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Pa'l Norte|year=2007|creator=Calle 13 feat. Orishas|blurb=Hymn to the migrant's northward journey and resilience.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%27l_Norte}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Frijolero|year=2003|creator=Molotov|blurb=Confronts anti-Mexican racism and border hypocrisy from both sides.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frijolero}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Mojado|year=2005|creator=Ricardo Arjona|blurb=Ballad following an undocumented migrant's dangerous crossing north.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Arjona}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Refugee|year=2023|creator=K'naan|blurb=Song reclaiming the word "refugee," released for World Refugee Day.|link=https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/refugee-knaan-and-call-humanise-struggle-millions}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=This Is Not America|year=2022|creator=Residente feat. Ibeyi|blurb=Critiques U.S. hegemony and the treatment of Latin American migrants.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Not_America_(Residente_song)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Will the Wolf Survive?|year=1984|creator=Los Lobos|blurb=Chicano-rock meditation on survival and the immigrant's precarious place.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Will%20the%20Wolf%20Survive%3F}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Immigrés|year=1988|creator=Youssou N'Dour|blurb=Title track addressing African emigrants living far from home.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigr%C3%A9s}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Ya Rayah|year=1993|creator=Rachid Taha|blurb=Iconic chaabi song about the sorrow of the emigrant who leaves home.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya_Rayah}}
{{Culture pick|type=Music|title=Land of the Free|year=2019|creator=The Killers|blurb=Politically charged song critiquing the border wall and inequality.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Free_(The_Killers_song)}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=The Line Becomes a River|year=2018|creator=Francisco Cantú|blurb=Memoir by a former Border Patrol agent reckoning with the human cost of enforcement.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/The%20Line%20Becomes%20a%20River}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Exit West|year=2017|creator=Mohsin Hamid|blurb=Novel using magical "doors" to render the universality of migration and displacement.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_West}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Solito|year=2022|creator=Javier Zamora|blurb=Memoir of the author's solo journey at age nine from El Salvador to the U.S.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solito:_A_Memoir}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Lost Children Archive|year=2019|creator=Valeria Luiselli|blurb=Novel interweaving a family road trip with the child-migrant crisis at the border.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Children_Archive}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=The Book of Unknown Americans|year=2014|creator=Cristina Henríquez|blurb=Interwoven testimonies of Latin American immigrant families in Delaware.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Unknown_Americans}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Behold the Dreamers|year=2016|creator=Imbolo Mbue|blurb=Novel of a Cameroonian family in New York during the 2008 crash, facing deportation.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behold_the_Dreamers}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=The Best We Could Do|year=2017|creator=Thi Bui|blurb=Graphic memoir of a Vietnamese "boat people" family's escape and resettlement.|link=https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read/best-we-could-do-illustrated-memoir}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Brother, I'm Dying|year=2007|creator=Edwidge Danticat|blurb=Memoir including the author's uncle, who died in U.S. immigration detention.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother,_I%27m_Dying}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here|year=2024|creator=Jonathan Blitzer|blurb=Narrative history of U.S.–Central America relations and the making of the migration crisis.|link=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/625425/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-by-jonathan-blitzer/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=No Friend But the Mountains|year=2018|creator=Behrouz Boochani|blurb=Memoir written by phone from Australia's Manus Island detention center.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/No%20Friend%20But%20the%20Mountains}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Enrique's Journey|year=2006|creator=Sonia Nazario|blurb=Pulitzer-based account of a Honduran boy riding freight trains to find his mother.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%27s_Journey}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=The Sympathizer|year=2015|creator=Viet Thanh Nguyen|blurb=Pulitzer-winning novel of a Vietnamese refugee and double agent after Saigon's fall.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sympathizer}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen|year=2018|creator=Jose Antonio Vargas|blurb=Memoir on living undocumented and hiding from the government.|link=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/dear-america-jose-antonio-vargas}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Americanah|year=2013|creator=Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie|blurb=Novel on race and immigration following a Nigerian woman in the U.S. and her love's undocumented life in the UK.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanah}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=The Land of Open Graves|year=2015|creator=Jason De León|blurb=Anthropological account of migrant deaths in the Sonoran Desert.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_of_Open_Graves}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Catalina|year=2024|creator=Karla Cornejo Villavicencio|blurb=Novel of an undocumented Ecuadorian girl coming of age at Harvard.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Cornejo_Villavicencio}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Infinite Country|year=2021|creator=Patricia Engel|blurb=Novel of a Colombian American family split apart by immigration policy.|link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Infinite%20Country}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Separated: Inside an American Tragedy|year=2020|creator=Jacob Soboroff|blurb=Investigative account of the family-separation policy.|link=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/separated-jacob-soboroff}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Call Me American|year=2018|creator=Abdi Nor Iftin|blurb=Memoir of a Somali man who won the visa lottery and resettled in Maine.|link=https://www.callmeamerican.com/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=The Distance Between Us|year=2012|creator=Reyna Grande|blurb=Memoir of a girl left behind in Mexico, then crossing to reunite with family.|link=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Distance-Between-Us/Reyna-Grande/9781451661781}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=Children of the Land|year=2020|creator=Marcelo Hernandez Castillo|blurb=Poet's memoir of growing up undocumented amid raids and deportation.|link=https://www.harpercollins.com/products/children-of-the-land-marcelo-hernandez-castillo}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves|year=2019|creator=Jason DeParle|blurb=Follows one Filipino family across three decades and continents of migration.|link=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316096/a-good-provider-is-one-who-leaves-by-jason-deparle/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Book|title=The Death of Josseline|year=2010|creator=Margaret Regan|blurb=Reportage on migrant deaths and enforcement in the Arizona borderlands.|link=https://www.beacon.org/The-Death-of-Josseline-P792.aspx}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=The Out Crowd|year=2019|creator=This American Life|blurb=Pulitzer-winning reporting on the "Remain in Mexico" policy — the first Pulitzer ever awarded for audio journalism.|link=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/688/the-out-crowd}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Indefensible|year=2017|creator=Immigrant Defense Project|blurb=Five-part series on people fighting deportation after the 1996 immigration laws.|link=https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/indefensible/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Displaced|year=2018|creator=International Rescue Committee|blurb=Interviews on the global refugee crisis and resettlement policy.|link=https://www.rescue.org/displaced}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Resettled|year=2020|creator=VPM (host Ahmed Badr)|blurb=Follows refugees adjusting to new lives in Virginia.|link=https://www.vpm.org/resettled}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=The Raid Podcast|year=2025|creator=John Carlos Frey|blurb=Frontline reporting on ICE and Border Patrol immigration raids.|link=https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Raid-Podcast}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Immigrantly|year=2018|creator=Saadia Khan|blurb=Interviews deconstructing stereotypes of immigrants and children of immigrants.|link=https://www.immigrantlypod.com/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Asylum Speakers|year=2019|creator=Jaz O'Hara|blurb=Amplifies first-person stories of asylum, migration and displacement worldwide.|link=https://player.fm/series/asylum-speakers}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Define American|year=2020|creator=Jose Antonio Vargas / Define American|blurb=Explores undocumented life, DACA and immigration policy.|link=https://defineamerican.com/}}
{{Culture pick|type=Podcast|title=Temporary|year=2021|creator=SYN Media|blurb=Eight-part series on asylum seekers caught in Australia's "stop the boats" limbo.|link=https://player.fm/podcasts/Asylum-Seekers}}
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Culture: watch, listen, read

A community-curated library of film, documentaries, music and writing about immigration, detention and the fight for immigrant justice. These are cultural recommendations — kept deliberately separate from the documented record on this site.

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Doc2020
Filmmakers embed with ICE for three years, capturing raids, deportations and the human toll from inside the agency.
Immigration Nation
Netflix docuseries
Doc2019
Young activists deliberately get detained to organize from inside a for-profit detention center.
The Infiltrators
Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera
Doc2009
Follows unaccompanied children riding freight trains north toward the US border.
Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa
Film2009
A Honduran teen and a gang defector cross Mexico by train in a tense migrant-journey drama.
Sin Nombre
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Film2011
An undocumented gardener in Los Angeles risks everything to build a future for his son.
A Better Life
Chris Weitz
Film2007
A widowed professor is drawn into the immigration-detention system after befriending an undocumented couple.
The Visitor
Tom McCarthy
Film2021
A Korean-American adoptee raised in Louisiana faces deportation to a country he never knew.
Blue Bayou
Justin Chon
Music1948
Written after a crash killed 28 deported farmworkers the press left unnamed — the original migrant-justice protest song.
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
Woody Guthrie
Music1998
The anthem of the undocumented, sung from the migrant’s point of view.
Clandestino
Manu Chao
Music2015
A blunt, viral single and video confronting the global migration crisis and border politics.
Borders
M.I.A.
Music1968–
Decades of migration corridos — "La Jaula de Oro," "Tres Veces Mojado" — that turned the immigrant experience into folk history.
Los Tigres del Norte
Norteño corridos
Book2004
The true story of 26 men who crossed the Arizona desert and the 14 who died — a landmark of border reporting.
The Devil’s Highway
Luis Alberto Urrea
Book2020
A fierce, literary account of undocumented life beyond the headlines, by a formerly undocumented writer.
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Book2017
An essay built from the 40 questions asked of child migrants in immigration court.
Tell Me How It Ends
Valeria Luiselli
Podcast2011–
Long-form Latin American and US-Latino stories, many tracing migration and its aftermath.
Radio Ambulante
NPR (Spanish)
Podcast1993–
The long-running radio show and podcast covering immigration, enforcement and Latino life in the US.
Latino USA
NPR / Futuro Media
Doc2024
Investigates the Trump administration's family-separation policy through interviews and reenactments, based on Jacob Soboroff's book.
Separated
Errol Morris
Doc2016
Golden Bear winner at Berlin and Oscar-nominated portrait of the migrant crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Fire at Sea
Gianfranco Rosi
Doc2017
Filmed over a year in 23 countries following some of the world's forcibly displaced people; premiered in competition at Venice.
Human Flow
Ai Weiwei
Doc2019
An Afghan family films their own flight from the Taliban on three phones.
Midnight Traveler
Hassan Fazili
Doc2021
Animated documentary of a gay Afghan refugee; first film Oscar-nominated for Animated, Documentary and International Feature at once.
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Doc2020
Follows Dominicans of Haitian descent after a 2013 court ruling stripped citizenship, rendering over 200,000 people stateless.
Stateless
Michèle Stephenson
Doc2021
Short film shot via video calls inside a Georgia ICE detention center during COVID-19.
The Facility
Seth Freed Wessler
Doc2024
Examines the profit-driven "border industrial complex" of immigration enforcement.
Borderland: The Line Within
Pamela Yates
Doc2013
Traces an unidentified migrant's body found in the Arizona desert; features Gael García Bernal.
Who Is Dayani Cristal?
Marc Silver
Doc2006
Follows three "Lost Boys of Sudan" from a Kenyan refugee camp to U.S. resettlement.
God Grew Tired of Us
Christopher Dillon Quinn
Doc2020
Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy builds a California donut empire and sponsors fellow refugees.
The Donut King
Alice Gu
Doc2011
Investigates abuse in immigrant detention and the Secure Communities program.
Lost in Detention
FRONTLINE (PBS)
Doc2025
Investigates the treatment of protesters and bystanders during Trump-era immigration sweeps.
Caught in the Crackdown
FRONTLINE / ProPublica
Doc2019
A mother's first-person chronicle of the Aleppo siege and the decision to flee.
For Sama
Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Doc2016
A Haitian woman in the Dominican Republic fights to regularize status and avoid deportation; Amnesty prize winner. (Limited availability.)
Si Bondye vle, Yuli (God Willing, Yuli)
Jean Jean
Doc2021
Documents how the border wall divides the Tohono O'odham Nation and desecrates ancestral sites. (Limited availability.)
Whose Land? O'odham Land!
Tohono O'odham community filmmakers
Doc2017
Experimental 16mm portrait of the Sonoran Desert and its border crossings. (Limited availability.)
El mar la mar
J.P. Sniadecki, Joshua Bonnetta
Doc2020
Meditative portrait of life along Middle Eastern borders scarred by war and displacement.
Notturno
Gianfranco Rosi
Film1983
Foundational film following Maya siblings fleeing Guatemala to "the North."
El Norte
Gregory Nava
Film2008
A veteran's bond with his Hmong refugee neighbors confronts his prejudice.
Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood
Film2004
A pregnant Colombian teen becomes a drug mule bound for New York.
Maria Full of Grace
Joshua Marston
Film2022
True story of Syrian sisters Yusra and Sara Mardini fleeing to Europe by sea.
The Swimmers
Sally El Hosaini
Film2023
Two Senegalese teens' journey across the Sahara and Mediterranean to Italy; Silver Lion winner and Oscar nominee.
Io Capitano
Matteo Garrone
Film2020
A Korean American family starts a farm in 1980s Arkansas.
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
Film2007
A boy crosses the border to find his undocumented mother working in Los Angeles.
Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)
Patricia Riggen
Film2022
Semi-autobiographical comedy of a Palestinian family awaiting asylum in Houston.
Mo
Mo Amer, Ramy Youssef
Film2020
Five siblings fend for themselves after their parents are deported to Mexico.
Party of Five
Amy Lippman, Christopher Keyser
Film2017
A child's survival under the Khmer Rouge, based on Loung Ung's memoir.
First They Killed My Father
Angelina Jolie
Film2014
Sudanese war orphans resettle in the American Midwest; features real former Lost Boys.
The Good Lie
Philippe Falardeau
Film2007
Animated memoir of a girl's exile from revolutionary Iran to Europe.
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Film2015
Tamil refugees pose as a family to seek asylum in France; Palme d'Or winner.
Dheepan
Jacques Audiard
Film2006
A Bengali immigrant family navigates identity across generations in New York.
The Namesake
Mira Nair
Film1985
A young British-Pakistani man and his lover confront racism in Thatcher-era London.
My Beautiful Laundrette
Stephen Frears
Film2008
Sci-fi imagining a future of "virtual" migrant labor across a militarized border.
Sleep Dealer
Alex Rivera
Film2021
Musical of a Dominican American neighborhood in Washington Heights, including an undocumented character.
In the Heights
Jon M. Chu
Film2024
A Hungarian Jewish architect rebuilds his life in postwar America.
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet
Film2015
An Irish immigrant builds a new life in 1950s Brooklyn.
Brooklyn
John Crowley
Film2019
A Monterrey teen flees cartel threats to an isolating exile in New York.
I'm No Longer Here (Ya no estoy aquí)
Fernando Frías de la Parra
Film2020
A mother searches for her son who vanished migrating north.
Identifying Features (Sin señas particulares)
Fernanda Valadez
Film2020
Anthology series dramatizing true stories of immigrants in America.
Little America
Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon, Lee Eisenberg
Music2013
Narrates three undocumented workers living under the constant fear of ICE.
El Hielo (ICE)
La Santa Cecilia
Music2016
Hip-hop anthem on immigrant labor from The Hamilton Mixtape.
Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)
K'naan feat. Residente, Riz MC, Snow Tha Product
Music2025
Album engaging displacement and diaspora; its opening track voices a message defending immigrants.
Debí Tirar Más Fotos
Bad Bunny
Music2010
Rapper born to Chilean exiles whose work engages exile, identity and injustice.
La Bala / 1977
Ana Tijoux
Music2019
Reworks Manu Chao's song to address detained migrant children at the U.S. border.
Clandestino (Al Chile version)
Lila Downs
Music1987
Ballad about the perils and false promises awaiting those who cross into the U.S.
Across the Borderline
Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Dickinson
Music2007
Celebrates New York as a city built by immigrants.
City of Immigrants
Steve Earle
Music2019
Ballad about families and children seeking refuge at the southern border.
A Safe Place to Land
Sara Bareilles feat. John Legend
Music2005
Traces, in reverse, a migrant who drowns crossing the Rio Grande.
Matamoros Banks
Bruce Springsteen
Music2003
Border-rock song depicting a desert crossing into Arizona.
Across the Wire
Calexico
Music2018
Single condemning the family-separation policy and detention conditions.
The Immigrants
Gaby Moreno & Van Dyke Parks
Music2007
Hymn to the migrant's northward journey and resilience.
Pa'l Norte
Calle 13 feat. Orishas
Music2003
Confronts anti-Mexican racism and border hypocrisy from both sides.
Frijolero
Molotov
Music2005
Ballad following an undocumented migrant's dangerous crossing north.
Mojado
Ricardo Arjona
Music2023
Song reclaiming the word "refugee," released for World Refugee Day.
Refugee
K'naan
Music2022
Critiques U.S. hegemony and the treatment of Latin American migrants.
This Is Not America
Residente feat. Ibeyi
Music1984
Chicano-rock meditation on survival and the immigrant's precarious place.
Will the Wolf Survive?
Los Lobos
Music1988
Title track addressing African emigrants living far from home.
Immigrés
Youssou N'Dour
Music1993
Iconic chaabi song about the sorrow of the emigrant who leaves home.
Ya Rayah
Rachid Taha
Music2019
Politically charged song critiquing the border wall and inequality.
Land of the Free
The Killers
Book2018
Memoir by a former Border Patrol agent reckoning with the human cost of enforcement.
The Line Becomes a River
Francisco Cantú
Book2017
Novel using magical "doors" to render the universality of migration and displacement.
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Book2022
Memoir of the author's solo journey at age nine from El Salvador to the U.S.
Solito
Javier Zamora
Book2019
Novel interweaving a family road trip with the child-migrant crisis at the border.
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
Book2014
Interwoven testimonies of Latin American immigrant families in Delaware.
The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez
Book2016
Novel of a Cameroonian family in New York during the 2008 crash, facing deportation.
Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue
Book2017
Graphic memoir of a Vietnamese "boat people" family's escape and resettlement.
The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui
Book2007
Memoir including the author's uncle, who died in U.S. immigration detention.
Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat
Book2024
Narrative history of U.S.–Central America relations and the making of the migration crisis.
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Book2018
Memoir written by phone from Australia's Manus Island detention center.
No Friend But the Mountains
Behrouz Boochani
Book2006
Pulitzer-based account of a Honduran boy riding freight trains to find his mother.
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Book2015
Pulitzer-winning novel of a Vietnamese refugee and double agent after Saigon's fall.
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Book2018
Memoir on living undocumented and hiding from the government.
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas
Book2013
Novel on race and immigration following a Nigerian woman in the U.S. and her love's undocumented life in the UK.
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Book2015
Anthropological account of migrant deaths in the Sonoran Desert.
The Land of Open Graves
Jason De León
Book2024
Novel of an undocumented Ecuadorian girl coming of age at Harvard.
Catalina
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Book2021
Novel of a Colombian American family split apart by immigration policy.
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel
Book2020
Investigative account of the family-separation policy.
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
Jacob Soboroff
Book2018
Memoir of a Somali man who won the visa lottery and resettled in Maine.
Call Me American
Abdi Nor Iftin
Book2012
Memoir of a girl left behind in Mexico, then crossing to reunite with family.
The Distance Between Us
Reyna Grande
Book2020
Poet's memoir of growing up undocumented amid raids and deportation.
Children of the Land
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Book2019
Follows one Filipino family across three decades and continents of migration.
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
Jason DeParle
Book2010
Reportage on migrant deaths and enforcement in the Arizona borderlands.
The Death of Josseline
Margaret Regan
Podcast2019
Pulitzer-winning reporting on the "Remain in Mexico" policy — the first Pulitzer ever awarded for audio journalism.
The Out Crowd
This American Life
Podcast2017
Five-part series on people fighting deportation after the 1996 immigration laws.
Indefensible
Immigrant Defense Project
Podcast2018
Interviews on the global refugee crisis and resettlement policy.
Displaced
International Rescue Committee
Podcast2020
Follows refugees adjusting to new lives in Virginia.
Resettled
VPM (host Ahmed Badr)
Podcast2025
Frontline reporting on ICE and Border Patrol immigration raids.
The Raid Podcast
John Carlos Frey
Podcast2018
Interviews deconstructing stereotypes of immigrants and children of immigrants.
Immigrantly
Saadia Khan
Podcast2019
Amplifies first-person stories of asylum, migration and displacement worldwide.
Asylum Speakers
Jaz O'Hara
Podcast2020
Explores undocumented life, DACA and immigration policy.
Define American
Jose Antonio Vargas / Define American
Podcast2021
Eight-part series on asylum seekers caught in Australia's "stop the boats" limbo.
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