There's so much more amazing literature that I wish I could've included in The Penguin Book of Migration Literature. If you like the material in the collection, check out any of these titles. I've divided this list into 5 categories: novels and short stories; poetry and drama; memoir/non-fiction/multi-genre; anthologies; and film.
If you have any more suggestions in any category, please comment on the feedback page, and I'll add them in asap! I'm always looking for more migration literature to share with students and readers.
- Dohra
1. Fiction (novels and short stories)
* = available from Penguin Classics
Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail (Nigeria→UK)
Atia Abawi, A Land of Permanent Goodbyes (Syria→Turkey→Greece)
Randa Abdel-Fattah, The Lines We Cross (Afghanistan→Australia); Ten Things I Hate About Me (Lebanon→Australia); Does My Head Look Big in This? (first-generation Australia)
Azhar Abidi, Passarola Rising (multiple migrations), The House of Bilqis (Australia→Pakistan)
Leila Aboulela, Minaret; The Translator; Lyrics Alley (Sudan→Egypt→UK)
Chantal Acevedo, The Living Infinite (Spain→Cuba→USA)
Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land (USA→Dominican Republic and Dominican Republic→USA)
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Americanah (Nigeria→USA)
Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy (Ghana→Germany)
Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase (Ukraine→USA)
Hanan Al-Shaykh, Only in London (Iraq/Lebanon/Morocco→UK)
*Shalom Aleichem, Tevye the Dairyman (Russia→Palestine); Motl the Cantor’s Son (Russia→USA)
Meena Alexander, Nampally Road (India→England→India)
William Alexander, Ambassador (Mexico→US)
Monica Ali, Brick Lane (Bangladesh→UK)
Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat (Turkey→Germany)
Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Dominican Republic→USA)
Hala Alyan, Salt Houses (Palestine→Kuwait and elsewhere)
*Mary Antin, The Promised Land (Belarus→USA)
Nathacha Appanah, Waiting for Tomorrow (Mauritius→France); The Last Brother (Czechoslovakia→Mauritius)
Alexia Arthurs, How to Love a Jamaican (Jamaica→USA→Canada)
Sefi Atta, A Bit of Difference (Nigeria→UK); News From Home (Nigeria→various destinations)
Juan Tomas Ávila Laurel, The Gurugu Pledge (various countries in Africa→Spain)
Mariama Bâ, Scarlet Song; So Long a Letter (Senegal→France)
Anita Rau Badami, Tamarind Woman (India→Canada), The Hero’s Walk (India→Canada→India)
Sharon Bala, The Boat People (Sri Lanka→Canada)
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (USA→France)
Shauna Singh Baldwin, English Lessons and Other Stories (India→Canada)
Azouz Begag, Shantytown Kid (Le Gone du Chaâba) (Algeria→France)
*Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (West Africa→Surinam)
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Leaving Tangier (Morocco→Spain)
Benyamin, Goat Days (India→Saudi Arabia)
David Bezmozgis, The Free World (Latvia→USA); Natasha and Other Stories (Latvia→Canada)
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road (Canadian First Nations→France→Belgium)
Dionne Brand, At the Full and Change of the Moon; Sans Souci and Other Stories (Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean countries→Canada); What We All Long For: A Novel (Vietnam→Canada)
Lily Brett, Things Could Be Worse (Poland→Australia); Too Many Men (USA→Poland)
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Zimbabwe→United States)
*Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky (Russia→USA)
Jennifer Davis Carey, Near the Hope (Barbados→USA)
*Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (Sweden→ USA)
Rosa R. Cappiello, Oh, Lucky Country (Italy→Australia)
Gianrico Carafiglio, Involuntary Witness (Senegal→Italy)
Ana Castillo, The Guardians: A Novel (USA→Mexico)
Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart (Philippines→USA)
May-lee Chai, Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories (China→USA), Tiger Girl (Cambodia→USA)
Myriam J. A. Chancy, The Loneliness of Angels (Haiti→France→Canada→Ireland), The Scorpion's Claw (Haiti→Canada)
David Chariandy, Brother; Soucouyant (Trinidad and Tobago→Canada)
Edmonde Charles-Roux, Oublier Palerme (USA→Italy)
Kirstin Chen, Bury What We Cannot Take: A Novel (China→ USA)
Melanie Cheng, Australia Day (multiple migrations)
Wayson Choy, All That Matters (China→Canada)
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street; Caramelo; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (Mexico→United States)
Austin C. Clarke, The Origin of Waves, More, Choosing His Coffin: The Best Stories of Austin Clarke; There are No Elders (Barbados→Canada)
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil & Carrying the World (multiple migrations)
Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven; If I Could Write This in Fire (Jamaica→USA→England→Jamaica)
Teju Cole, Every Day is the Thief; Open City (Nigeria→USA→Nigeria)
Maryse Condé, I, Tituba (Barbados→colonial USA); Segu (Mali→Morocco, Brazil), (Guadeloupe→France→West Africa)
*Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary (Belgium→Belgian Congo); Victory (Sweden→Indonesia)
Naima Coster, Halsey Street (Dominican Republic→USA)
Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone; The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (first generation UK)
Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory; Brother, I’m Dying; The Dew Breaker; Everything Inside; The Farming of Bones (Haiti→USA)
Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy (Jamaica→USA)
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Nepal→India/India→USA)
Junot Díaz, Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Dominican Republic→USA)
Fatou Diome, La Ventre de l'Atlantique/The Belly of the Atlantic (Senegal→France)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, An Arranged Marriage, The Vine of Desire, Sister of My Heart, Before We Visit the Goddess, Oleander Girl (India→USA)
Négar Djavadi, Disoriental (Iran→France)
Michael Donkor, Housegirl (Ghana→England)
Marguerite Duras, The Lover (Vietnam→France)
Edith Eaton, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (China→England→Canada→USA), A Chinese Ishmael and Other Stories (China→USA)
Winnifred Eaton, Me: A Book of Remembrance (Canada→Jamaica→USA)
Esi Edugyan, Washington Black (Barbados→USA→Arctic), The Second Life of Samuel Tyne (Ghana→UK→Canada); Half Blood Blues (USA/Germany→France)
Buchi Emecheta, In the Ditch; Second Class Citizen (Nigeria →UK)
Ramabai Espinet, The Swinging Bridge (Trinidad and Tobago→Canada)
Diana Evans, 26a: A Novel (Nigeria→UK)
Bernardine Evaristo, Mr. Loverman (Antigua→UK)
Abena Eyeson, Looking Up (Ghana→UK)
Nuruddin Farah, Hiding in Plain Sight (Italy→Kenya)
Brenda Flanagan, In Praise of Island Women & Other Crimes (Trinidad→USA)
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (USA→Ukraine→Poland)
Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones (UK→fictional West African country); Happiness (Ghana→UK)
Cecil A. Foster, Slammin’ Tar (Barbados→Canada), No Man in the House (Barbados→England), Sleep on, beloved (Jamaica→Canada)
Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban (Cuba→USA), King of Cuba: A Novel (Cuba→USA), Monkey Hunting (China→Cuba→USA)
Roxane Gay, An Untamed State (USA→Haiti→USA)
Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines (India→UK); The Glass Palace (India→Burma); Sea of Poppies (India→Mauritius)
Yasmine Gooneratne, A Change of Skies (Sri Lanka→Australia)
Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains (Mexico→USA)
Kate Grenville, The Secret River (UK→Australia)
Faïza Guène, Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (Morocco→France)
Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (China→UK)
Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (present-day Ghana→USA)
Rawi Hage, Cockroach (Lebanon→Canada)
Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (unnamed country very much like Pakistan→Greece→UK→USA); The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Pakistan→USA→Pakistan)
Bessie Head, A Question of Power; When Rain Clouds Gather (South Africa→Botswana)
Cristina Henríquez, The Book of Unknown Americans (Mexico, Panama→USA)
Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (Mexico→USA)
Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Cuba→USA); The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien (Cuba/Ireland→USA)
Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes (Niger→USA→Canada→Sierra Leone→England)
Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring (unspecified Caribbean→dystopian future Canada); Midnight Robber (fictional Afrofuturistic planet colonized by Caribbean settlers); Skin Folk (Jamaica→Canada); The Salt Roads (African diaspora)
Abeer Hoque, Olive Witch (Bangladesh→USA)
Vanessa Hua, A River of Stars (China→USA)
Yang Huang, My Old Faithful (China→USA)
David Henry Hwang, F.O.B.; The Dance and the Railroad; Family Devotions (China→USA)
Djamila Ibrahim, Things Are Good Now (Ethiopia and elsewhere→Canada and elsewhere)
Laila Ibrahim, Paper Wife: A Novel (China→USA)
*Gilbert Imlay, The Emigrants (UK→USA)
Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills (Japan→UK)
Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil (USA→Nigeria)
Naomi Jackson, The Star Side of Bird Hill (USA→Barbados)
*Henry James, The Europeans (Europe→USA)
Ha Jin, A Good Fall; A Free Life (China→USA); A Map of Betrayal; Nanjing Requiem (USA→China)
*James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (USA→France)
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars: A Novel (Syria→USA→Syria)
Nadia Kalman, The Cosmopolitans (Russia→USA)
Jonas Khemiri, Montecore (Tunisia→Sweden; Sweden→USA)
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (Antigua→USA)
Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train (Ireland→USA)
Joy Nozomi Kogawa, Obasan; Itsuka (Japan→USA)
Lisa Ko, The Leavers (China→USA)
Michelle de Kretser, Questions of Travel: A Novel (Sri Lanka→Australia), The Life to Come (Sri Lanka→Australia→France)
Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana (India→USA)
Akil Kumarasamy, Half Gods (multiple migrations)
Hari Kunzru, Transmission (India→USA/other global migrations)
Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (India→UK)
Min Jin Lee, Pachinko (Korea→Japan)
Harold Sonny Laddoo, No Pain Like This Body (India→Trinidad and Tobago)
Dany Laferrière, The Enigma of the Return (Haiti→Canada)
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies; The Namesake; The Lowland (India→USA)
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again (Vietnam→USA)
Laila Lalami, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (Morocco→Spain), The Moor’s Account (Morocco→USA)
George Lamming, Of Age and Innocence; The Emigrants (Barbados→England)
Nella Larsen, Quicksand (USA→Denmark)
Chang-Rae Lee, Native Speaker (first generation USA)
Jen Sookfong Lee, The End of East (China→Canada)
Andrea Levy, Six Stories and an Essay; Every Light in the House Burnin’; Never Far From Nowhere; Small Island; The Long Song; Fruit of the Lemon (first generation UK)
Michael David Lukas, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo (USA→Egypt)
Sindiwe Magona, Push-push! and Other Stories (South Africa→USA)
Gautam Malkani, Londonstani (first generation UK)
David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (UK→Australia)
*Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Stories (Germany→Italy)
J. Nozipo Maraire, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter (Zimbabwe→USA)
Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger (Zimbabwe→UK)
Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones; Praisesong for the Widow; Daughters (first generation USA)
Demetria Martinez, Mother Tongue (El Salvador→USA)
Hisham Matar, Anatomy of a Disappearance (unnamed country→Egypt)
Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers (Cameroon→USA)
Colum McCann, TransAtlantic (multiple migrations); The Dancer (Russia→USA); Songdogs (Ireland→Spain→Mexico→USA→Ireland)
*Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; Omoo; Typee; Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (USA→various places)
Dinaw Mengestu, How to Read the Air (Ethiopia→USA→Ethiopia); The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Ethiopia→USA)
Rohinton Mistry, Tales from Firozsha Baag (India→Canada)
Shani Mootoo, Out on Main Street & Other Stories (Trinidad and Tobago→Canada); Cereus Blooms at Night (Trinidad and Tobago→UK→Trinidad and Tobago)
Bharati Mukherjee, Darkness; Jasmine; The Middleman and Other Stories; The Tiger’s Daughter; Wife (India →USA)
*Multatuli, Max Havelaar, or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Holland→Java)
Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Sri Lanka→USA)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (France→ USA); Pale Fire (fictional Eastern European country→USA); Pnin (Russia→USA)
V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men (fictional Caribbean country→UK); The Enigma of Arrival (Trinidad and Tobago→UK)
Shenaaz Nanji, Child of Dandelions (India→Uganda)
Dina Nayeri, Refuge (Iran→USA)
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française (Russia→France)
Marie NDiaye, Three Strong Women (Senegal→France)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer (Vietnam→USA); The Refugees (various migration routes)
Elizabeth Nunez, Anna In-Between; Boundaries; Grace (Trinidad and Tobago→USA)
Joseph O’Neill, Netherland (Netherlands→USA)
Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch (US→Nigeria); Binti and Home (fictional interplanetary migration)
Ben Okri, Incidents at the Shrine (Nigeria→UK)
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Call Me Zebra (Iran→USA→Spain)
Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Mother Tongue (Turkey→Germany)
George Papaellinas, The Trip (Greece→Australia)
Alec Patric, Black Rock, White City (Yugoslavia/Serbia→Australia)
Sasenarine Persaud, Canada Geese and Apple Chatney; In a Boston Night; Love in a Time of Technology; Monsoon on the Fingers of God: Poems (Guyana→Canada/USA)
Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (Trinidad and Tobago→USA)
M. NourbeSe Philip, Harriet’s Daughter (Trinidad and Tobago→Canada)
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River (African diaspora); A Distant Shore (unnamed African country→UK); A View of the Empire at Sunset (Domenica→UK)
Ruvanee Pietersz Vilhauer, The Water Diviner and Other Stories (Sri Lanka→USA)
Velma Pollard, Home Stretch (UK→Jamaica)
Ahmad Danny Ramadan, The Clothesline Swing (Syria→Canada)
Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know: A Novel (Afghanistan→UK)
*José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere (Philippines→Spain→Philippines)
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Shadow Child (Japan→USA)
Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (Dominica→England)
Shobha Rao, An Unrestored Woman (India→Pakistan→USA/Europe), Girls Burn Brighter (India→USA)
Ivelisse Rodriguez, Love War Stories (Puerto Rico→USA)
Jacob Rosenberg, Sunrise West (Poland→Australia)
Sandip Roy, Don't Let Him Know (India→USA)
*María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Who Would Have Thought It? (Mexico→USA)
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses; East, West; Fury (India→UK and other migrations)
Anjali Sachdeva, All the Names They Used for God: Stories (multiple migrations)
Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of Runaways (India→UK)
Kerri Sakamoto, The Electrical Field (Japan→Canada)
Tayib Saleh, Season of Migration to the North (Sudan→UK→Sudan)
Ghita Schwartz, Displaced Persons (Poland→USA)
Kim Scott, Taboo (Australian Aboriginal internal migration); That Deadman Dance (Aboriginal view of Australian colonial migration)
*Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (UK→North America)
Lore Segal, Other People's Houses (Austria→UK→Dominican Republic→USA)
Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go (Ghana→UK/USA)
Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy; The Hungry Ghosts (Sri Lanka→Canada)
Sam Selvon, The Housing Lark; The Lonely Londoners; Moses Migrating; Moses Ascending (various Caribbean→UK)
Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire (Pakistan→UK→USA/Syria)
Gary Shteyngart, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (Russia→USA)
Makeda Silvera, The Heart Does Not Bend (Jamaica→Canada)
*Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (Lithuania→USA)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies: A Love Story; The Collected Stories (Eastern Europe→USA)
Kushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan (India→Pakistan)
*Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Jamaica/Bangladesh→UK); Swing Time (first generation UK); The Embassy of Cambodia (Ivory Coast→UK)
*John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (USA internal migration)
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado: A Novel (USA→Philippines)
Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home (Mexico→USA)
Nafcote Tamirat, The Parking Lot Attendant (Ethiopia→USA→fictional island commune)
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (China→USA)
Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised (China→USA)
Souvankhan Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (Laos→Thailand→Canada)
H. Nigel Thomas, When the Bottom Falls Out: And Other Stories (fictional Caribbean island→Canada); Lives: Whole and Otherwise (various Caribbean→Canada), No Safeguards (St.Vincent→Canada)
Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Ireland→USA); The Master (USA→Europe); The South (Ireland→Spain)
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt (Vietnam→France)
Katia D. Ulysse, Drifting (Haiti→USA), Mouths Don’t Speak (USA→Haiti)
Thrity Umrigar, The Weight of Heaven: A Novel (USA→India)
Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels; Into the Beautiful North (Mexico→USA)
M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (India→Kenya); The Magic of Saida (Tanzania→Uganda→Canada); The Assassin’s Song (India→Canada); The Book of Secrets (India→Tanzania); No New Land (Tanzania→Canada)
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Vietnam→USA)
Eric Walrond, Tropic Death (various Caribbean→Panama Canal Zone)
Timberlake Wertenbaker, Our Country’s Good (UK→Australia)
Zoë Wicomb, October (Scotland→South Africa); You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (South Africa→ UK); The One that Got Away: Short Stories (South Africa→Scotland)
Tara June Winch, After the Carnage (multiple migrations)
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria (indigenous Australian internal migrations)
Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (China→USA)
Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning (St. Thomas→USA)
Mia Yun, Translations of Beauty (South Korea→USA)
Anzia Yezierska, Bread Givers; Hungry Hearts; Salome of the Tenements (Poland→USA)
Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky (Hong Kong→USA)
Arnold Zable, Cafe Scheherazade (Eastern Europe→Australia)
2. Poetry and Drama
Chris Abani, Sanctificum (Nigeria→USA)
Meena Alexander, Illiterate Heart: Poems (India→USA); The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (India→USA); Atmospheric Embroidery (multiple migrations)
Dionne Brand, No Language Is Neutral (Trinidad and Tobago and other Caribbean→Canada)
Joseph Brodsky, Selected Poems (Russia→USA)
Wayde Compton, 49th Parallel Psalm (US→Canada)
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Rules of the House (Tibet→India/Nepal)
Inua Ellams, Barbershop Chronicles (Ghana/Nigeria/South Africa/Uganda/Zimbabwe→UK)
Lorna Goodison, Supplying Salt and Light; Traveling Mercy; Turn Thanks (multiple migrations)
Nathalie Handal, The Republics and Poet in Andalucia (multiple migrations)
Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dread Beat and Blood; Mi Revalueshanary Fren (Jamaica→UK)
Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet in New York (Spain→USA)
Earl Lovelace, Jestina’s Calypso (Trinidad and Tobago→USA)
Canisia Lubrin, Voodoo Hypothesis (multiple migrations)
Grace Nichols, I is a Long Memoried Woman (West Africa→Caribbean), I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (Guyana→UK)
Andy Quan, Slant (China→various places), Bowling Pin Fire (Canada first generation)
Lal Bihari Sharma, I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara, translated by Rajiv Mohabir (India→Guyana)
Yomi Sode, Coat (Nigeria→UK)
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman (Nigeria→UK→Nigeria)
H. Nigel Thomas, Moving Through Darkness (St. Vincent and other Caribbean→Canada)
Tenzin Tsundue, Crossing the Border (Tibet→India)
*Marina Tsvetayeva, Selected Poems (Russia→Germany→Czechoslovakia→Russia)
Gina Athena Ulysse, Because When God Is Too Busy: Haïti, me, & THE WORLD (USA→Haiti)
*Cesar Vallejo, “Spain, Take This Chalice from Me” and Other Poems (Peru→Spain/France)
Ocean Vuong, Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Vietnam→USA)
Wang Ping, My Name is Immigrant (China→USA)
*Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings (West Africa→USA)
Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and other Writings (Japan→USA)
Ouyang Yu, Moon Over Melbourne and Other Poems (China→Australia)
3. Memoir/non-fiction/multi-genre
Isabel Allende, My Invented Country (Chile→USA)
Meena Alexander, Fault Lines: A Memoir (India→Sudan→England→USA); The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (India→USA)
Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman (India→Guyana)
Dionne Brand, A Map to a Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (West Africa→Trinidad and Tobago→Canada)
Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart: A Personal History (Philippines→USA)
Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River (USA/Mexico border)
Staceyann Chin, The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir (Jamaica→USA)
*Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (Ghana→West Indies→UK)
Mikhal Dekel, Tehran Children (Poland/Germany→Iran)
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging (India→Tibet)
*Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave; My Bondage and My Freedom (USA internal migration)
Ali Cobby Eckermann, Too Afraid To Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood & Inside My Mother (interior migrations in Australia)
*Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (West Africa→Barbados→UK)
Aminatta Forna, The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest (Sierra Leone→UK)
Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (India→South Africa→UK→India)
*Emma Goldman, Living My Life (Russia→USA)
Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Jamaica→UK)
Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life (first-generation USA)
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother (African diaspora)
Oscar Hijuelos, Thoughts Without Cigarettes: A Memoir (first generation USA)
Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (West Africa [modern Benin] →USA)
*Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (UK→Kenya)
Matt Huynh, Ma (Vietnam→Malaysia)
Lawson Fusao Inada, Legends from Camp; Drawing the Line (USA internment)
Francisco Jiménez, Breaking Through; Reaching Out; Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University (Mexico→USA)
Ha Jin, The Writer as Migrant (China→USA)
Judith Kerr, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Bombs on Aunt Dainty; A Small Person Far Away (Germany→UK)
Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Antigua→USA)
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts; China Men (China→USA)
Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant: A Memoir (first generation Canada)
Tété-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland (Togo→Greenland)
Amitava Kumar, Passport Photos (India→USA)
Murat Kurnaz, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo (Germany→Pakistan→Guantanamo→Germany)
George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile (Caribbean→England)
Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (Mexico→USA)
Paule Marshall, Triangular Road: A Memoir (first generation USA)
*José Martí, Selected Writings; Our America (Cuba→USA)
Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between (Libya→Kenya→Egypt→UK→USA→Libya)
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes; ‘Tis; Teacher Man (Ireland→USA)
Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming: A Memoir; Singing My Him Song (Ireland→USA)
Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women (Liberia→USA)
Dhan Gopal Mukherjee, Caste and Outcast (India→USA)
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisted (Russia→UK→USA)
*Shiva Naipaul, North of South: An African Journey (Trinidad and Tobago→East Africa)
Shoba Narayan, Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes (India →USA)
*Solomon Northrup, Twelve Years a Slave (USA internal migration)
Elizabeth Nunez, Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir (Trinidad and Tobago→USA)
Dan-El Padilla Peralta, Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Dominican Republic→USA)
Shailja Patel, Migritude (Kenya→UK→USA)
Caryl Phillips, Colour Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging (St. Kitts→UK)
*Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince (Bermuda→UK)
Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican (Puerto Rico→mainland USA)
*Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (Jamaica→UK and other places)
Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure: A Memoir (Russia→USA)
Art Spiegelman, Maus (Poland→USA)
Grace Talusan, The Body Papers (Philippines→USA)
Meredith Talusan, Fairest (Philippines→USA)
*Nikola Tesla, My Inventions and Other Writings (Croatia→USA)
Phuc Tran, Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In (Vietnam→USA)
*Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth (USA internal migration)
*John Thompson, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave (USA internal migration)
Philippe E. Wamba, Kinship: A Family's Journey in Africa and America (USA→Congo/Tanzania)
*Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings (West Africa→USA)
4. Anthologies
Bruce Bennett and Susan Hayes, eds. Home and Away: Australian Stories of Belonging and Alienation (various→Australia)
James Berry, ed. News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of West Indian-British Poetry (Caribbean→UK)
Frank Birbalsingh, ed. Jahaji: An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction (India→Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago)
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, ed. Becoming American: Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women (first generation USA)
Edwidge Danticat, ed., The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States (Haiti→USA)
Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, ed. Women : Poetry : Migration, an anthology (various migrations)
Louis Mendoza and Subramanian Shankar, eds. Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration (various places→USA)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, ed. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (various migration routes)
Achy Obejas and Megan Bayles, eds. Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Stories (various places→USA)
Caryl Phillips, ed. Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging (various places→UK)
Shyam Selvadurai, ed. Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers (South Asia→various destinations worldwide)
Paul Sharrad and Meeta Chatterjee, eds. Of Indian Origin: Writings from Australia (India→ Australia)
5. Film/multimedia
Ae Fond Kiss, dir. Ken Loach (Pakistan/Ireland→Scotland)
Africa Paradis, dir. Sylvestre Amoussou (future Europe→Africa)
Ali’s Wedding, dir. Jeffrey Walker (Iraq→Australia)
Auntie, dir. Lisa Harewood (Barbados→UK)
Amreeka, dir. Cherien Dabis (Palestine→USA)
Beautiful People, dir. Jasmin Dizdar (Bosnia→UK)
Bend it Like Beckham, dir. Gurinder Chadha (India→UK)
Bhaji on the Beach, dir. Gurinder Chadha (India→UK)
Black Girl, dir. Ousmane Sembène (Senegal→France)
Brooklyn, dir. John Crowley (Ireland→USA)
Cambodian Son, dir. Kosal Khiev (Cambodia→USA→Cambodia)
Children of the Crocodile, dir. Marsha Emerman (East Timor→Australia)
Daughter of Keltoum, dir. Mahdi Charef (Switzerland→Algeria)
Dirty Pretty Things, dir. Stephen Frears (Nigeria/Turkey→UK)
Dreaming Rivers, dir. Martina Attille (St. Lucia→UK)
East is East, dir. Damien O’Donnell (Pakistan→UK)
Eat a Bowl of Tea, dir. Wayne Wang (China→USA)
Eden is West, dir. Costa-Gavras (Greece→France)
El Norte, dir. Gregory Nava (Mexico→USA)
Europlex, dir. Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders (Morocco→Spain)
Hate/La Haine, dir. Mathieu Kassovitz (first generation France)
Head-On, dir. Fatih Akin (Turkey→Germany)
Head On, dir. Ana Kokkinos (Greece→Australia)
Journey of Hope, Xavier Koller dir. (Turkey→Switzerland)
Kim’s Convenience (CTV show; Korea→Canada)
Latcho Drom, dir. Tony Gatlif (India→Europe Roma migration)
Layla M., dir. Mijke de Jong (Morocco→Netherlands)
Maria in Nobody's Land, dir. Marcela Zamora Chamorro (El Salvador→USA)
Midnight Traveler, dir. Hassan Fazili (Afghanistan→Hungary)
Mississippi Masala, dir. Mira Nair (Uganda→USA)
Motherland: Cuba Korea USA, dir. Dai Sil Kim-Gibson (Korea→Cuba→USA)
My Beautiful Laundrette, dir. Stephen Frears (first generation UK)
Princesas, dir. Fernando León de Aranoa (Dominican Republic→Spain)
Remote Sensing, dir. Ursula Biemann (various migration routes)
Shouf Shouf Habibi!, dir. Albert ter Heerdt (Morocco→Holland)
Siberian Love, dir. Olga Delane (Siberia→Germany)
Sin Nombre, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga (Mexico/Honduras→USA)
Small Island, dir. John Alexander (Jamaica→England)
Sound of Torture, dir. Keren Shayo (Egypt→Eritrea)
Sunday God Willing/Inch’Allah Dimanche, dir. Yamina Benguigui (Algeria→France)
Tea in the Harem/Le Thé au Harem d’Archimède, dir. Mahdi Charef (Algeria→France)
The Namesake, dir. Mira Nair (India→USA)
The Other Side of Immigration, dir. Roy Germano (Mexico→USA)
The Promise/La Promesse, dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne (various places→Belgium)
The Secret of the Grain, dir. Abdellatif Kechiche (Tunisia→France)
To Sir, With Love, dir. James Clavell (Guyana→UK)
Under the Same Moon, dir. Patricia Riggen (Mexico→USA)
Which Way Home, dir. Rebecca Cammisa (El Salvador/Honduras→Mexico→USA