Our Recommended Summer (Immigration-Related) Reads

There are few things in life as pleasurable as a good book. Add to that a lovely park or a beach with soft sand and a cold beer, sangria, or, why not, a margarita beside you—that’s practically perfection. So as the lists of recommended summer reads start coming out, we thought we’d share our immigration-related ones. Happy summer reading!

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Constant Reinvention

"I see my forebears losing touch with one another and fanning out across the world. I see the ebb and flow of their fortunes and the battle for assimilation. Theirs is a constant, almost manic, reinvention — in Johannesburg, in London, in Jerusalem, in Cleveland...They fight for that feeling of belonging that goes with home, the elusive place where, as Robert Frost noted, 'when you have to go there, they have to take you in.'"

- Roger Cohen
"The Battle to Belong: Depression and an Immigrant’s Struggle to Assimilate"