Copyright © 2004
David Weissbrodt and Laura Danielson
CHAPTER 17
BIBLIOGRAPHY
This chapter suggests some principal references for research in immigration law. Items which are starred (*) might be found in the core immigration law library of an immigration practitioner or serious student.
§ 17–1 LAWS AND REGULATIONS
8 U.S.C. - Aliens and Nationality (Codification of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Pub. L. 414, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163, June 27, 1952; and its subsequent amendments. This is the basic source of immigration law).*
22 U.S.C. - Foreign Affairs (Laws regulating the activities of U.S. consulates).*
8 C.F.R. - (Regulations governing immigration procedures).*
20 C.F.R. - (Labor Department regulations, including alien labor certification).*
22 C.F.R. - (Foreign relations regulations giving procedures and guidelines to U.S. consulates for issuing visas and passports).*
Agency Interpretations of Immigration Policy: Cables, Memos, and Liaison Minutes from 2002 (Randy P. Auerbach ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2003).
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214, Apr. 24, 1996.*
Bender's Immigration Regulations Service (New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1994 -) (2 vols. looseleaf updated bimonthly).
Bender's Immigration and Nationality Act Pamphlet (New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1987-) (Immigration and Nationality Act, issued annually).
Scott M. Borene, Global Immigration Guide: Crossing Borders for Business (Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2002).
Coming to America: Entry Issues in the Current Immigration Landscape (Michael Turansick & Kathleen Campbell Walker eds., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2002).
Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107-173, 116 Stat. 543, May 14, 2002.*
Extradition Laws and Treaties, United States (Igor I. Kavass & Adolf Sprudzs, comps., Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein, 1980-2001) (4 vols. looseleaf).
Federal Immigration Laws and Regulations (St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1993-) (1 vol. containing the basic statutes and regulations, issued annually).*
Federal Register (daily newspaper-like publication that updates the C.F.R. and publishes proposed rules, regulations, and notices from federal administrative agencies).
Homeland Security Act of 2002, Pub. L. 107-296, 116 Stat. 2135, Nov. 25, 2002.*
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-208, Div. C, 110 Stat. 3009, Sept. 30, 1996.*
Immigration Act of 1990, Pub. L. 101–649, 104 Stat. 4978, Nov. 29, 1990.
Immigration Act of 1990 (New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1991) (special supplement to Immigration Law and Procedures which contains the text of the 1990 Act with explanation and analysis by Charles Gordon and Stanley Mailman).
The Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986, Pub. L. 99-639, 100 Stat. 3537, Nov. 10, 1986.
Immigration and Nationality Act (Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., annual softbound volume).
Immigration and Nationality Laws of the United States: Selected Statutes, Regulations, and Forms: As Amended to . . . (T. Alexander Aleinikoff et al., St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1997-)(issued annually).*
Immigration Law Service (New York, NY: Clark Boardman Callahan, 1985-) (multivolume looseleaf service with statutes, regulations, and instructions; updated quarterly).
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Pub. L. 99-603, 100 Stat. 3359, Nov. 6, 1986.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Pub. L. 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105, Aug. 22, 1996.
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United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (one of the first places to locate the text of new public laws and legislative history of public laws) (St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1953-).
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United States Department of State, Foreign Affairs Manual (vol. 9 contains State Department interpretations and regulations on immigration and citizenship) (reproduced in Immigration Law Service, supra, and Immigration Law and Procedure, infra; available on the web at
http://foia.state.gov/famdir/Fam/fams.asp?level=2&id=10&fam=0).*
United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, Codes, Operations, Instructions, Regulations, and Interpretations (Washington, DC: The INS, 1988-)(internal policy guide covering the day-to-day operations of the INS).*
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001, Pub. L. 107-56, 115 Stat. 280, Oct. 26, 2001.
§ 17–2 CASES AND DECISIONS
Bender’s Immigration Case Reporter (New York, NY: Matthew Bender & Co., 1993-(contains selected court cases and administrative agency decisions; formerly Immigration Law and Procedure Reporter).
BIA Index Decisions Reporter (Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1986- 1995) (4 issues/year; annual from 1986-89).
Federal Immigration Law Reporter (Washington, DC: Washington Service Bureau, 1983-1990) (contains selected court cases and administrative agency decisions).
Hein's Interim Decision Service (Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein & Co., 1984-) (begins with # 2951, Dec. 12, 1983).
Immigration Labor Certification Reporter (New York, NY: Matthew Bender & Co., 1981-1985) (contains selected court cases and administrative agency decisions).
Immigration Law and Procedure Reporter (New York, NY: Matthew Bender & Co., 1985-1993) (contains selected court cases and administrative agency decisions)(now Bender’s Immigration Case Reporter).
United States Board of Immigration Appeals, Administrative Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality Laws (22 vols., Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940-).*
United States Board of Immigration Appeals, Interim Decisions (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, irregular).
United States Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges, Decisions of the Office of Administrative Law Judges and Office of Administrative Appeals (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987-1993) (contains decisions concerning labor certification; this set was discontinued in 1993).
§ 17–3 HISTORY
Edward P. Hutchinson, Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798-1965 (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981).
IIRAIRA: Selected Legislative History of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1997).
Nancy C. Montwieler, The Immigration Reform Law of 1986: Analysis, Text, Legislative History (Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs, 1987).
Edward E. Proper, Colonial Immigration Laws (New York, NY: AMS Press, Inc., 1967).
Selected Legislative History of the Immigration Act of 1990 (Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1991) (including text of the 1990 Act).
Selected Legislative History of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1987).
Oscar Trelles & James Bailey, Immigration and Nationality Acts: Legislative Histories and Related Documents (multivolume set with index; Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein Co., 1979).
Voices from Ellis Island: An Oral History of American Immigration (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1989).
Peter H. Wang, Legislating Normalcy: The Immigration Act of 1924 (San Francisco, CA: R & E Research Associates, 1975).
§ 17–4 BOOKS, TREATISES, AND DIGESTS
Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook (Randy P. Auerbach ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1996- (vol. 1 Immigration Basics; vol. 2 Advanced Practice; issued annually.)
The AILA U.S. Consular Posts Handbook (Seymour Rosenberg ed., 13th ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2002)(issued annually).
Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff et al., Immigration Process and Policy (5th ed., St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2003).
American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1996 AILA Business Immigration Conference (Simi Valley, CA: Convention Seminar Cassettes, 1996) (7 sound cassettes).
Deborah E. Anker, The Law of Asylum in the United States (3d ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1999 and 2002 Supplement) (now published by the Refugee Law Center).
Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute (New York, NY: Practising Law Institute, 1968-, annual).
Basic Immigration Law (New York, NY: Practising Law Institute,
1989-, annual).
Basic Guide to Naturalization and Citizenship (Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Outreach Program, 1990). See also A Guide to Naturalization on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)Web site at: http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/services/natz/guide.htm.
M. Cherif Bassiouni, International Extradition: United States Law & Practice (4th ed., Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 2002).
Richard A. Boswell & Gilbert Paul Carrasco, Immigration and Nationality Law: Cases and Materials (3d ed., Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2000 with 2003 Supplement).
John L. Cable, Decisive Decisions of United States Citizenship (Charlottesville, VA: Michie Co., 1967).
David Carliner, The Rights of Aliens and Refugees: The Basic ACLU Guide to Alien and Refugee Rights (2d ed., Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990).
Robert C. Divine, Immigration Practice (Huntington, NY: Juris Publishing Co., 1997-)(issued annually).
E Visa Form Book: Treaty Trader and Investor (E) Visa Questionnaires and Supplemental Information Forms Required by U.S. Consular Posts Abroad (Richard S. Goldstein ed., 2d ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1991).
Diana Elles, International Provisions Protecting The Human Rights of Non–Citizens, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/392/Rev.1 (1980).
Federal Procedural Forms, Lawyers Edition (Rochester, NY: Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., 1975-)(contains sample immigration law forms and includes references to statutes, court rules, administrative regulations, cases, law review articles, legal encyclopedia sections, and ALR annotations related to the subject matter of the forms).
Austin T. Fragomen and Steven C. Bell, Immigration Employment Compliance Handbook (St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1999-(updated annually).
Austin T. Fragomen and Steven C. Bell, H-1B Handbook, 2003 ed. (St. Paul, MN: West Group, issued annually).
Austin T. Fragomen and Steven C. Bell, Immigration Fundamentals: A Guide to Law and Practice (4th ed., New York, NY: Practising Law Institute, 1996-)(looseleaf).
Austin T. Fragomen et al., Immigration Legislation Handbook (St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1997-)(issued annually).
Regina Germain, AILA’s Asylum Primer (3d ed. Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2003).
Guy S. Goodwin–Gill, The Refugee in International Law (2d ed., New York, NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996).
Charles Gordon & Stanley Mailman, Immigration Law and Procedure (2d rev. ed., New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1988-) (formerly C. Gordon & S. Rosenfield) (multivolume looseleaf with case references, statutes, regulations, instructions, etc.).*
Hurst Hannum, The Right to Leave and Return in International Law and Practice (Dordrecht, Neth.: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987).
Bill Ong Hing, Handling Immigration Cases (2d ed., New York, NY: Aspen Publishers, 1995 with annual supplement) (2 vols.).
Sarah B. Ignatius & Elisabeth S. Stickney, Immigration Law and The Family (New York, NY: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1995-, looseleaf, updated annually).
Immigrant Investors: Creating Employment for U.S. Communities (Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1991).
INS Forms for Applications and Petitions (Scott Borene et al. eds., 4th ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 1999).
David Jackson, Immigration: Law and Practice (London, U.K.: Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd., 2001-, looseleaf). (UK law)
Dan Kesselbrenner et al., Immigration Law and Crimes (St. Paul, Minn.: West Group, 2002).
Ira J. Kurzban, Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook (9th ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2004).
Daniel Levy & Nat’l Immigration Project of the Nat’l Lawyers Guild, U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Handbook, 2003 ed. (St. Paul, MN: West Group, annual softcover volume).
A Legal Guide for INS detainees: Petitioning for Release from Indefinite Detention (Washington, DC: American Bar Association, 2002).
Stephen H. Legomsky, Immigration Law and Policy (3d ed., Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, Inc., 2002, with 2003 Supplement).
Richard Lillich, The Human Rights of Aliens in Contemporary International Law (Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press, 1984).
David A. Martin, Asylum Case Law Sourcebook (4th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2003).
Karen Musalo, Jennifer Moore & Richard A. Boswell, Refugee Law and Policy: A Comparative and International Approach (2d ed. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002).
National Lawyers Guild, Immigration Law and Defense (3d ed., New York, NY: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1988–) (2 vols. looseleaf, updated semi-annually).
Pravinchandra J. Patel, Patel's Citations of Administrative Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality Laws (annual, New York, NY: Legal Research Bureau, 1982-).
Pravinchandra J. Patel, Patel's Immigration Law Digest: Decisions from 1940 (Rochester, NY: Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., 1982-1998)(2 vols. looseleaf).
Juan Perea, Immigrants Out!: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1997).
Bill Piatt, Immigration Law: Cases and Materials (Charlottesville, VA: Michie Co., 1994).
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Alan M. Kraut, ed., Bethesda, MD: United Publications of America, 1991-1997) (microfilm).
Selected Fundamentals of Immigration Law and Practice, 2003-04 edition (Tatia L. Gordon-Troy ed., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2003).
Shepard's Immigration and Naturalization Citations (Colorado Springs, CO: Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 2d. ed. 1991-) (also on Lexis).
Gregory H. Siskind et al., J Visa Guidebook, 2003 Edition (New York, NY: Matthew Bender & Co., 2003).
Richard D. Steel, Steel on Immigration Law 2d (St. Paul, MN.: West Group, 2002-)(multi-volume looseleaf set).
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, Collection of International Instruments & Other Legal Texts Concerning Refugees and Other Displaced Persons, U.N. Doc. HCR/IP/1/Eng/Rev.1 (1995) (2 vols, vol. I Universal Instruments and vol. II Regional Instruments).
United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, Conclusions on the International Protection of Refugees, HCR/IP/2/Eng/Rev.1994 (1994) (a new volume is issued every so often).
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status, U.N. Doc. HCR/IP/4/Eng/Rev.2 (1992). (The Handbook is available in English, French, and Spanish on the World Wide Web/Internet at http://www.unhcr.ch; search under “Publications.”)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations Resolutions and Decisions relating to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, U.N. Doc. HCR/INF.49/Add.4 (1993). (This publication has been discontinued since all of the documents are available on REFWORLD; see below.)
United States Department of Labor, Dictionary of Occupational Titles (4th ed. rev., Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O., 1991)(available on the World Wide Web/Internet at: http://www.oalj.dol.gov/libdot.htm). *
United States Immigration Commission, Reports (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911)(41 vols.).
Visa Processing Guide (2003-2004 ed., Charles M. Miller et al. eds., Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Assoc., 2003).
David Weissbrodt, The Rights of Non-Citizens, U.N. Doc E/CN4/Sub.2/2003/23 (2003).
§ 17–5 PERIODICALS
For articles about immigration law, policy, and procedure, the Index to Legal Periodicals or Current Law Index should be consulted under the following headings: Emigration & Immigration; Deportation, Citizens & Citizenship; and Aliens. The following periodicals are of continuing interest in the area of immigration.