Immigrants and Refugees

In these deeply-felt, slyly humorous stories, David Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts.

What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States?

Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America.

Perception of caretakers as supportive or critical influenced their representational model of self, their internal working model of others was influenced by how families interpreted the parent's absence. Such representational models, in turn, predisposed them to develop specific affective, cognitive, behavioral, and relational patterns.

More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation.