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News

THE DAILY IOWAN

​​​University of Iowa students to educate eastern Iowans on immigration, refugee experiences

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Iowa City Press-Citizen

Iowa City group creates series highlighting refugee and immigrant experiences in Iowa

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Iowa Public Radio

Iowa council hosts conversation on immigrants' and refugees' role in public policy

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Books

Watch the ​April 13th event where we'll hear from Andrea Wilson, Chuy Renteria, Eyad Said, & Antonia Rivera about 'Writing & Reading the Refugee & Immigrant Experience'

Recommended Reading

• Reading
  • Dina Niyari, The Ungrateful Refugee
  • Art Cullen, Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper
  • The Good Governor: Robert Ray and the Indochinese Refugees of Iowa, Matthew R. Walsh, 2017
  • What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, Dave Eggers, 2006
  • Kristy Nabhan-Warren Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland (UNC Press, September 2021).​

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Movies

Stories of Migration 

• Watching
  
  • "Immigration Nation" (2020), documentary series, Netflix
    
  • "Human Flow" (2017), film, Amazon
    
  • “Minari (2021), film
    
  • “Flee” (2021), short animated documentary 
    
  • “I Learn America” (2013), documentary film: https://ilearnamerica.com/ 
    
  • A Hope for Tomorrow, Milwaukee PBS (2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt5eLmw5-SY
    
  • The Resettled, TZU CHI USA 360 (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijZNp2UMeBI