Undercurrents

Appendix A: Notes and Further Reading

I HOPE THIS BOOK stimulates further exploration, research, and even activism. Here are a few expanded notes and references related to each chapter.

Introduction

It is fitting that this book starts in a UNCHR refugee camp, as immigration and refugee issues remain to this day one of the most outrageous issues of our times, in desperate need of activism and innovation. For more insights, check out UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (www.unhcr.org) and the International Rescue Committee (www.rescue.org). Further analysis of refugee resettlement and immigration policies and criteria can be found at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (www.refugees.org). Two (of many) great books describing the refugee experience are Dave Eggers's What Is the What (2014), and Dina Nayeri's The Ungrateful Refugee (2019).

My appointment at the Stanford Graduate School of Business is on the faculty of its Center for Social Innovation (www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/centers-initiatives/csi). There are many excellent journals and books on the emerging field of social innovation, among them, The Stanford Social Innovation Review (www.ssir.org), Innovation and Scaling for Impact: How Effective Social Enterprises Do It (by Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair, 2017), and Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change (Geoff Morgan, 2019). And the inaugural quote comes from one of my favorite autobiographies, by a hero for my generation, Nelson Mandela's ...