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Migration is not a new phenomenon, but it does change over time. Migrants move by choice—seeking better education or financial security—or by force—fleeing war or persecution based on race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. People are also displaced by economic forces like gentrification and ecological forces like natural disasters and the effects of climate change. In “Learn More,” we’ve provided bibliographies and resource lists to help you explore the subject further.
Bibliographies
In this section you will find recommended reading materials related to the exhibition.
Resources
In this section, you will find a list of resources, advocates, and supporting organizations that are involved with migration at different levels, both in government and nonprofit sectors.
Spotlight on California
In this section you will find a list of sources that were used in support of the "Spotlight on California" corner in the exhibition and recommended articles for further reading.
Literature on Migration
Scholarly Publications
Resources
Resources by Region
Resources by Topic
International Organizations and Resources
International Organization on Migration (IOM)
IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, promote international cooperation, find practical solutions, and provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need.
The UN Refugee Agency / United Nations High Commisioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNHCR strives to engage with migration issues that affect refugees and other persons under its mandate, including asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and stateless people.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International campaigns to ensure governments honour their shared responsibility to protect the rights of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants.
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
The IRC responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future.
Refugees International
Refugees International advocates for lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises.
HIAS
HIAS works around the world to protect refugees who have been forced to flee their homelands because of who they are, including ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities.
Immigrant Movement International (IM International)
IM International is a community space; a think tank envisioning a different legal reality for human migration; a lab practicing artivist tactics; and an educational platform based on a culture of reciprocity.
International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
IDMC is the world's definitive source of data and analysis for informing policy and operational decisions that improve the lives of the millions of people living in or at risk of internal displacement.
National Organizations and Resources
Bridging Refugee Youth & Children Services (BRYCS)
BRYCS aims to strengthen the capacity of refugee-serving and mainstream organizations across the U.S. to empower and ensure the successful development of refugee children, youth, and their families.
Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
The Migration Policy Institute seeks to improve immigration policies through research and analysis, learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.
U.S. Committee for Refugees & Immigrants (USCRI)
The mission of the USCRI is to protect the rights and address the needs of persons in forced or voluntary migration worldwide and support their transition to a dignified life.
Refugee Council USA (RCUSA)
RCUSA promotes efforts to protect and welcome refugees, asylum-seekers, and other forcibly displaced populations through just and humane laws and policies, and dialogue and communication.
The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
RAICES is a nonprofit agency that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services, social programs, bond assistance, and advocacy to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees.
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
Established in response to US government termination and assimilation policies, NCAI protects the inherent and legal rights of tribal governments.
Oxford African American Study Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center offers the most comprehensive online collection of scholarship on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
Local Organizations and Resources
Immigration Policy Lab (IPL)
IPL uses large datasets, creative research designs, and cutting-edge analytical tools to bring new evidence to bear on the urgent problems of setting public policy and serving immigrant communities.
Services Immigrant Rights Education Network (SIREN)
SIREN’s mission is to empower low-income immigrants and refugees through community education and organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy, civic engagement and legal services.
Refugee Immigrant Transitions (RIT)
RIT provides free education, family engagement, and community leadership programs. Their students have sought refuge due to war, violence, persecution, or economic duress.
San Francisco Coalition of Asylee, Immigrant, and Refugee Services (SF-CAIRS)
SF-CAIRS works to expand resource knowledge about health, employment, social, education and legal services for recent refugees, political asylees and immigrants in San Francisco.
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (IIBA)
IIBA provides high-quality, affordable immigration legal services, education, and civic engagement opportunities.
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego (CCIS)
CCIS is the only academic center in the United States specializing in international migration from a broad geographical as well as interdisciplinary perspective.
ACLU of Northern California
ACLU Northern California, one of the largest ACLU affiliates in the nation, works to protect and advance civil liberties — free speech, privacy, due process — for all Californians.
Economics and Labor
United Nations Population Division
The Population Division plays an active role in intergovernmental dialogue on population and development, producing demographic projections and focused materials on international migration.
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO brings together governments, employers and workers to set labor standards, develop policies and devise programs promoting decent work for all women and men, including those engaged in labor migration.
The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC)
The CTDC publishes data from counter-trafficking organizations around the world to break down information-sharing barriers and equip the counter-trafficking community with reliable data on human trafficking.
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University
This project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose grueling and perilous labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West.
Housing and Community
Bay Area Equity Atlas
The Bay Area Equity Atlas is a tool with robust, disaggregated data for community leaders seeking to create a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient region.
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, critical cartography, and multimedia storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.
Urban Displacement Project
This project aims to understand the nature of gentrification and displacement in American cities and create tools to help communities identify pressures and take effective action.
National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
The NCRC works with community leaders, policymakers and financial institutions to champion fairness and end discrimination in lending, housing and business.
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California (formerly Fair Housing of Marin) is an independent nonprofit dedicated to equal housing opportunity.
Health and Medicine
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO works worldwide to ensure that people, including refugees and migrants, have universal health coverage, protect people from health emergencies, and provide people with better health and well-being.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provides medical care, mental health support, and treatment for sexual violence, to refugees and displaced people wherever they are—even on the move.
American Red Cross
As part of the world’s largest humanitarian network, the American Red Cross partners with Red Cross and Red Crescent teams to provide aid and hope to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
Art and Migration
National Gallery of Art
The artworks in this module represent widely ranging views on immigration from artists contemplating ther ancestor's experiences, events they witnessed, or their own stories in their art.
MoMA Learning
For many artists, their own migrations and those of their ancestors shape their identities, cultural traditions, and art.
Tate
Migration and Art
Explore how artists reflect on moving to new places in this selection of resources.
Creative Exchange
Queer and Undocumented: The Art and Activism of Coming Out, and Coming Out
Creative Exchange is a platform that shares stories of artists and their impact in community, and free, practical toolkits for artist-engaged programs. This focused article links to a number of resources.
Americans for the Arts
Arts Mobilization Center
Government actions designed to restrict immigration and rescind protections affect many people who work in the arts, as well as all U.S. citizens’ abilities to live a full and free creative life.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Government actions designed to restrict immigration and rescind protections affect many people who work in the arts, as well as all U.S. citizens’ abilities to live a full and free creative life.
Spotlight on California
At the Cantor, this exhibition takes on additional nuances thanks to the unique migration histories of California and the Bay Area. California has long been and continues to be one of the most diverse states in the nation, but it’s important to consider the complex histories that shaped it. Our Spotlight on California corner features factoids about our national, regional, and local context. As you read, consider how past patterns of and restrictions on movement and habitation have influenced our current moment.
Racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in California and the Bay Area is shaped by the state's and the region's unique stories of immigration.
In 2018, 27% of people living in California and around 30% of those in the Bay Area were born outside of the country. But, California's diversity has also been shaped by local, national and global histories of slavery, genocide, forced displacement, racial violence and discriminatory laws. These histories and their effects continue to shape the Bay Area, California, and the nation, fueling ongoing racial justice and human rights movements.
Ron Dugan, “A Moving Border, and the History of a Difficult Boundary,” USA Today, 2017.
The Bracero History Archive, a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University, and the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Erika Lee, “The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping,” in Asian American Studies Now, ed. Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012), 143–167.
Richard Gonzales, “Rebuilding Chinatown after the 1906 Quake,” NPR.org, April 12, 2006.
Isabel Wilkerson, “The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration: When Millions of African-Americans Fled the South in Search of a Better Life, They Remade the Nation in Ways That Are Still Being Felt,” Smithsonian Magazine, September 2016.
Eve Simister, “The African American Great Migration and San Mateo County,” La Peninsula: Journal of the San Mateo County Historical Association 44, no. 1 (Spring 2016).
Melissa Navas, “The Harsh Reality of Gentrification,” Divisadero, University of San Francisco, May 12, 2020.
Ingrid Burrington, “Who Gets to Live in Silicon Valley? Google and San Jose Hope to Make the City More Affordable for Working- and Middle-Class Families, but They Make Matters Worse,” The Atlantic, June 25, 2018.
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All URLs accessed November 30, 2020.
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