Consult the Guide: Duke Human Rights Archive: Immigration and Displacement. The guide was developed by Patrick Stawski, Human Rights Archivist in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library .
The Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ) records, formerly the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC), span the years of 1980-2011, and contain extensive documentation of the events and crises surrounding asylum, deportation, detention and abuses that took place within Florida detention centers from the years 1980 to 2011, as well as documentation regarding issues of repatriation.
Collection comprises an 11.87" x 11.75" poster on undocumented immigrants.
[Digital Content Available] Materials from (or related to) the migration by sea of Cubans, Dominicans, and Haitians, including the refugee camp for Cuban and Haitian rafters that existed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, largely dating from 1991-1996.
Collection consists largely of correspondence from Cuban migrants
[Digital Content Available] Collection consists of several thousand documentary images and supporting documents, data, videos, news stories, and interviews from the project On Board the MV Aquarius, December 2017, by photojournalist Darrin Zammit Lupi, on assignment for the Reuters news agency.
El Pueblo Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Raleigh, NC that serves and supports the Latin American community of North Carolina through advocacy work, programs in Latino culture, health, public safety, and youth leadership.
[Digital Content Available] Collection comprises 100 16x20 black-and-white gelatin silver prints shot by Monroe from 1980 to 1998 in Haiti, in Haitian neighborhoods in Florida, and in Krome Camp, Florida, where Haitian refugees are detained by the U.S. government.
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) is a non-profit organization that assists post-conflict, conflict, and democratic countries in pursuing accountability for mass atrocities and human rights abuses.
Community and labor movement organizer in Durham, N.C.; chair of the Triangle Friends of the United Farm Workers; board member of the National Farm Worker Ministry; member of the Farmworker Ministry Committee, N.C. Council of Churches.
The Mark Danner Papers date from 1970 to 2004 and focus predominately on Danner's coverage of Haiti during the period of unrest that followed President Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's exile in 1986.
[Digital Content Available] Progressive and activist rabbi. During his time in New York city as head of B'nai Jeshuruan in the 1980's and 1990's Meyer worked on asylum and sanctuary issues with Central American immigrants.
Marty Rosenbluth was Amnesty International's area specialist for Israel/Occupied Territories in the 1980s. He is also an independent documentary film-maker. The Marty Rosenbluth papers include publications, reports, case studies, press-releases, mailings, communications, leaflets, audiovisual recordings, and ephemera created by Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups.
The National Coalition for Haitian Rights (NCHR) operated between 1982 and 2006, advocating for the rights of Haitians in the United States, Haiti, and the Caribbean.
[Digital Content Available] Twelve oral history interviews with students and artists from Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora.
Collection compromises photography documenting the cultures, politics, environments, and crises in countries all over the world. Series include The Americas, whose images range from Central and South American countries to Caribbean countries of Haiti and the Bahamas; migrants and migrant services at the Arizona/Mexico border.
[Digital Content Available] Oral history interviews with local (NC) refugee families from Iraq and Sudan, and Syrian refugees now residing in Canada, Brazil, Lebanon, Germany, and Italy. All items are digital.
The Roberta Cohen papers document Cohen's involvement with many NGOs, think tanks, government and United Nations bodies working on issues of international human rights, displacement, war, and humanitarianism. The Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) subseries covers Cohen's research and writings developing the concept of IDPs and advocating for its importance and use in international conceptualizations of refugees.
Founded in 1992 at Duke University, Student Action with Farmworkers is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Durham, N.C., whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other’s lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change.
[Digital Content Available] Videos and fieldnotes created by students in 2003, in the CDS Continuing Education course "Visual Storytelling" in collaboration with 8 Latina immigrants in North Carolina.
Established in New York, New York, in 1989 as part of the International Rescue Committee. It advocates for laws, policies, and programs to improve the lives and protect the rights of refugee and internally displaced women, children, and adolescents.
