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Attorney Dan Berger and other members of our staff are regular contributors to a monthly Reader's Corner highlighting fiction and nonfiction related to immigration and international affiars for the magazine Immigration Law Today. The National Visa Center and the Kentucky Consular Center - Dan Berger and paralegals Kelsey Camire and Massiel Tercero-Parker update this article for The 2010 Consular Practice Handbook. Navigating the NAFSA Manual: Foreign Students and Scholars Regulations - Dan Berger and former paralegal Gabby Templet review the NAFSA Advisers Manual of Federal Regulations Affecting Foreign Students and Scholars. Nolo Press Tackles Immigration in Self-Help Books - Dan Berger reviews immigration Self-Help books that guide immigrants in the process of obtaining visas, permanent residence, and U.S. citizenship. Toasting Education with Three Cups of Tea - Dan Berger and former interns Nina Maja Bergmar and Emma Coates-Finke review Three Cups of Tea by David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson. Cruisin' Africa: A Semester on Safari and Two Years in Mali - Dan Berger and Becky Schapiro review Africa on Six Wheels: A Semester on Safari by Betty Levitov and Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway. The Price of Freedom: Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings - Dan Berger reviews the book Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings: All Roads Lead to America by author Sheldon X. Zhang A Nation by Design: Portrait of Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America - Dan Berger reviews this book about U.S. immigration history covering congressional decisions from colonial times to the present. The Pickup: Amid High Hopes and Painful Reality - Dan Berger and Becky Schapiro review The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. This month's Reader's Corner also includes a shorter review of The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Though set in different countries, both novels include characters struggling with the realities of being undocumented. Brandt Goldstein's Storming the Court - Dan Berger reviews this book about a group of Yale law students who sue the U.S. government to seek freedom for a group of Haitian citizens being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, their only crime being HIV-positive. Mark Dow's American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons - Dan Berger reviews reporter Mark Dow's book, which argues that abuses in U.S. immigration prisons have resulted from a lack of scrutiny and planning in a system that has grown to detain as many as 200,000 people annually. Americans in Waiting - Crossing the Threshold to Citizenship - Dan Berger reviews the book Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States by author Hiroshi Motomura. Home at Last! Chronicling the Lost Boys of Sudan - Dan Berger and Eliza Camire review What is the What by author Dave Eggers and God Grew Tired of Us, the memoir of John Bul Dau. Eritrea: A Little-Known Country with a Big History - Dan Berger and Jennifer Rogers review the book I Didn't Do it for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation by British journalist Michela Wrong.
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