Immigration Resources
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