The following links are listed to provide you with additional online immigration related resources. Please also check the additional links provided for mental and physical health for a more comprehensive understanding of your over-all well-being. The following is not meant to be a comprehensive list, nor is it an endorsement of the content of the sites.

Understanding Immigration:

• Immigration Reform (Al Jazeera America)
• Immigration Battle: A Frontline and Independent Lens special presentation
• Homeland: Immigration in America (PBS)
• The Shame of America’s Family Detention Camps (New York Times Magazine)
• Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (Daniels)
• Immigration: Tough Questions, Direct Answers (Bourke)
• Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal (Chomsky)
• United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Implications of Immigration Enforcement Activities for the Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families: A Review of the Literature (Migration Policy Institute)
• Health and Social Service Needs of U.S. Citizen Children with Detained or Deported Immigrant Parents (Migration Policy Institute)

Resources for Providers:

• American Psychological Association Resources on Immigration
• Webinars and research on refugee mental health (National Partnership for Community Training, Gulf Coast JFCS)
• Psychological Perspectives on Immigration and Acculturation
• The Costs of Getting Ahead: Mexican Family System Changes after Immigration
• Childhood and Migration in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices, and Challenges
• Prevalence of serious mental disorder in 7000 refugees resettled in western countries: a systematic review
• Does one trauma fit all? Exploring the relevance of PTSD across cultures

Psychological Evaluations for Immigration Court:

• Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Psychological evaluation of asylum seekers as a therapeutic process
• How to Assuage Adjudicator Concerns About Mental Health Evaluations
• How a Psychological Evaluation May Help an Immigration Case
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Does your parent or relative qualify for a disability exception to the citizenship test?
• A work in progress: Mental competency issues in immigration practice
• Power and control tactics used against immigrant women
• Reforming America’s Immigration Laws: A Woman’s Struggle
• Demonstrating psychological hardship: A statistical study of psychological evaluations in hardship waivers of inadmissibility 

Local Resources:

Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
https://michiganimmigrant.org/resources/advocate-library/131

Refugee Development Center
https://refugeedevelopmentcenter.org/

Office of Global Michigan
https://www.michigan.gov/ogm/services/mits/provider-list/community-partners/chaldean-foundation

Greater Lansing Food Bank
https://greaterlansingfoodbank.org/get-help

National Organizations:

• Psychologists for Social Responsibility
• Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network
• Global Psychosocial Network
• National Consortium of Torture Treatment Programs