Selected Primary Works
Africa
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. The Thing Around Your Neck. Anchor, 2010.
Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names. Back Bay Books, 2014.
Gyasi, Yaa. Homegoing. Knopf, 2016.
Mbue, Imbolo. Behold the Dreamers. Random House, 2016.
Mengestu, Dinaw. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. Riverhead, 2007.
Selasi, Taiye. Ghana Must Go. Penguin, 2014.
South Asia
Alexander, Meena. Fault Lines. 2nd edition. Feminist P, 2003.
__________. The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience. South End P, 1996.
Bhatt, Sheela, et al., editors. Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora. Aunt Lute, 1993.
Bhattacharya, Piyali, editor. Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion. Aunt Lute P, 2016.
Desai, Kiran. The Inheritance of Loss. Grove Press, 2006.
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Arranged Marriage. Doubleday, 1995.
__________. The Mistress of Spices. Random House, 1998.
__________. Queen of Dreams. Anchor, 2004.
Ganeshananthan, V. V. Love Marriage. Random House, 2008.
Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West. Riverhead Books, 2017.
__________. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Mariner, 2007.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Interpreter of Maladies. Mariner Books, 1999.
__________. The Lowland. Vintage, 2014.
__________. The Namesake. Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
__________. Unaccustomed Earth. Vintage, 2009.
Mehta, Rahul. No Other World. Harper Collins, 2017.
Mukherjee, Bharati. Jasmine. Grove P, 1989.
Naqvi, Tahera. Dying in a Strange Country. TSAR, 2001.
Reddi, Rishi. Karma and Other Stories. Harper Perennial, 2007.
Satyal, Rakesh. No One Can Pronounce My Name. Picador, 2017.
Sharma, Akhil. Family Life. W.W. Norton, 2014.
Sidhwa, Bapsi. An American Brat. Milkweed, 1993.
Sindu, S. J. Marriage of a Thousand Lies. Soho P, 2017.
East Asia
Bui, Thi. The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. Abrams Comicarts, 2017.
Eaton, Edith Maude. Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing. Edited by Mary Chapman, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016.
Jen, Gish. Mona in the Promised Land. Vintage, 1997.
__________. Typical American. Vintage, 2008.
__________. Who’s Irish?: Stories. Vintage, 2000.
Jin, Ha. A Free Life. Pantheon, 2007.
__________. The Writer as Migrant. U of Chicago P, 2008.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Vintage, 1989.
Ko, Lisa. The Leavers. Algonquin, 2017.
Lee, Chang-Rae. Native Speaker. Riverhead, 1995.
Nguyen, Bich Minh. Stealing Buddha’s Dinner: A Memoir. Penguin, 2008.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Refugees. Grove P, 2017.
__________. The Sympathizer. Grove P, 2016.
Okada, John. No-No Boy. U of Washington P, 1976.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. Penguin, 1989.
Tran, GB. Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey. Villard, 2010.
The Caribbean
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Algonquin Books, 2010.
__________. In the Name of Salomé: A Novel. Plume, 2000.
Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory. Vintage, 1994.
__________. Brother, I’m Dying. Knopf, 2007.
__________. Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Vintage, 2010.
__________. The Dew Breaker. Knopf, 2004.
Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Riverhead Books, 2007.
__________. Drown. Riverhead Books, 1996.
__________. This Is How You Lose Her. Riverhead Books, 2013.
Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Menendez, Ana. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd. Grove Press, 2001.
Latin America
Cortez-Davis, Evelyn. December Sky: Beyond My Undocumented Life. In Xochitl In Cuicatl, 2003.
Grande, Reyna. The Distance Between Us. Washington Square P, 2012.
Henriquez, Cristina. The Book of Unknown Americans. Vintage, 2015.
Hernandez, Daisy. A Cup of Water Under My Bed. Beacon P, 2014.
Orduña, Jose. The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement. Beacon P, 2016.
Nazario, Sonia. Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother. Random House, 2007.
Padilla Peralta, Dan-el. Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League. Penguin P, 2015.
Sánchez, Erika L. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2017.
Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel, and Mario Garcia. Migrant Daughter: Coming of Age as a Mexican American Woman. U of California P, 2000.
Europe
Antin, Mary. The Promised Land. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.
Cahan, Abraham. Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom. Dover, 1970.
__________. The Rise of David Levinsky. Penguin Classics, 1993.
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Dover, 1994.
Chabon, Michael. The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. Harper Perennial, 2007.
Halevi, Yehudah. The Selected Poems of Yehuda Halevi. Edited by Hillel Halkin. Nextbook, 2011.
Lazarus, Emma. Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems. Edited by John Hollander, Library of America, 2005.
Levine, Philip. The Mercy: Poems. Knopf Doubleday, 2011.
McCourt, Frank. ’Tis: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. Bedford, 1996.
Rosenfeld, Alvin H, editor. The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature. Indiana UP, 2008.
Roth, Henry. Call it Sleep. Farah, Straus and Giroux, 1994.
Shtenygart, Gary. Absurdistan. Random House, 2007.
__________. Little Failure: A Memoir. Random House, 2014.
Tóibín, Colm. Brooklyn. Scribner, 2015.
Yezierska, Anzia. How I Found America: Collected Stories of Anzia Yezierska. Persea Books, 1991.
Middle East
Abu-Jaber, Diana. Crescent. W.W. Norton, 2004.
__________. The Language of Baklava. Anchor, 2006.
Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. Random House, 2006.
Helal, Marwa. I am Made to Leave I am Made to Return. No Dear and Small Anchor Press, 2017.
Selected Secondary Works
Bald, Vivek. Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. Harvard UP, 2013.
__________. et al., editors. The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power. New York UP, 2013.
Behdad, Ali. A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States. Duke UP, 2005.
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. Routledge, 1994.
Bhatt, Amy, and Nalini Iyer. Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest. U of Washington P, 2013.
Braziel, Jana Evans, and Anita Mannur, editors. Theorizing Diaspora. Blackwell, 2003.
Caminero-Santangelo. Documenting the Undocumented: Latino/a Narrative and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper. U of Florida P, 2016.
Cappell, Ezra. American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction. SUNY P, 2008.
Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Indiana UP, 1993.
Cowart, David. Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America. Cornell UP, 2006.
Daniels, Roger. Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. Harper Perennial, 2002.
__________. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1982. Hill and Wang, 2005.
Fadda, Carol. Contemporary Arab American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging. New York UP, 2014.
Flores-González, Nilda. Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millennials. New York UP, 2017.
Gonzales, Roberto G. Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America. U of California P, 2015.
Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, edited by Jonathan Rutherford, Lawrence and Wishart, 1990, pp. 222-237.
Hassan, Wail. Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature. Oxford UP, 2011.
Jain, Anupama. How to be South Asian in America. Temple UP, 2011.
Kraut, Alan M. The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880–1921. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.
Leonard, Karen Isaksen. Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans. Temple UP, 1994.
Lowe, Lisa. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Duke UP, 1996.
Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. Oxford, 1988.
Muller, Gilbert G. New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction. UP of Kentucky, 2008.
Ratti, Rakesh, editor. Lotus of Another Color: The Unfolding of South Asian Gay and Lesbian Experience. Alyson Books, 1993.
Roediger, David R. Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs. Basic Books, 2006.
Said, Edward. Reflections on Exile and Other Essays. Harvard UP, 2002.
Salaita, Steven. Modern Arab American Fiction: A Reader’s Guide. Syracuse UP, 2011.
Socolovsky, Maya. Troubling Nationhood in U. S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging. Rutgers UP, 2013.