This list is not comprehensive and we hope you provide us with more recommendations based on the immigrant experience.
Movies
Dirty Pretty Things (Undocumented Immigrants in the UK)Goal! The Dream Begins (suggested by Fash, Undocumented Youth in U.S. dreams of becoming a soccer star)
In America (Undocumented Irish Family in New York)
Joy Luck Club(Chinese Immigrant Mothers and their Daughters)
Spellbound (Kid Friendly, about the national spelling bee, participants tend to be the children of immigrants)
Sweet Land(about a German immigrant after world war 2)
Under the Same Moon (Kid Friendly, about an undocumented child searching for his mother)
Books
Devils Highway (review by yave)Documented Dreams
Nation of Immigrants by JFK (suggested by CitizenOrange)
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (review by yave)
White Flight (suggested by John)
They Take Our Jobs! (suggested by Fash)
Chronicles of a Nomad: Memoirs of an Immigrant
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A couple more suggestions:
Books: They Take Our Jobs by Aviva Chomsky
Movies: Goal! The Dream Begins (it has a DREAMer in it and everything)
I found this in the times today
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/underthesamemoon/
I can't wait until it hits the theaters.
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