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Additional Resources
Internet Resources
The African-American Migration Experience
This Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture site focuses on the 13 defining migrations that formed and transformed African America.
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
Becoming an American: The Chinese Experience
The dramatic story of struggle and triumph, progress and setbacks, discrimination and assimilation, taken from personal stories.
http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/index.html
Chicago, City of the Century: Decades of Immigrants
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/sfeature/sf_nations.html
Destination America
This resource-rich site includes compelling immigration stories, the history of immigration to the United States, a quiz, and resources.
http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/index.html
Immigration: Library of Congress
A presentation of the history of immigration, using primary sources of the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Selected historical materials from Harvard University's collections document voluntary immigration to the United States.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
Immigrant Voices -- Primary Sources
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ethnic_am.cfm
Migration Policy Institute "Data Hub"
The latest facts, stats, and maps on international migration.
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub
The New Americans
Personal stories and cultural riches from the newest wave of immigrants to the United States.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/index.html
Peopling North America: Population Movements & Migration
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/Fhome.html
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser
From the University of Virginia library, this census tool allows users to compare populations in states over different time periods.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census
Online Readings
America’s Newcomers
http://mumford.albany.edu/census/NewComersReport/Americas%20Newcomers.pdf
Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports. Chapter 6. Place of Birth and U.S. Citizenship.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/censusatlas/6_Place-of-Birth-and-US-Citizenship.pdf
Center for Immigration Studies. Immigrants in the United States, a backgrounder.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2007/back1007.pdf
The Foreign-Born Population of the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p20-551.pdf
Immigration and America's Black Population
http://www.prb.org/pdf07/62.4immigration.pdf
The Immigration Debate
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/1204/ijse/barone.htm
In Professor's Model, Diversity = Productivity
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08conv.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
Lindsay, James M., and Audrey Singer. Changing Faces: Immigrants and Diversity in the Twenty-First Century.
http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2003/06immigration_lindsay.asx
One from Many: U.S. Immigration Patterns and Ethnic Composition
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0699/ijse/portrait.htm
Singer, Audrey. The Changing Face of America
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/1204/ijse/singer.htm
Spain, Daphne. The Debate in the United States over Immigration.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0699/ijse/spain.htm
Additional Readings
Alba, Richard D. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Barkan, Elliott R. And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920 to the 1990s. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1996.
Brotherton, David C. and Philip Kretsedemas, eds. Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Brownstone, David M., Irene M. Franck and Douglass Brownstone, eds. Island of Hope, Island of Tears: The Story of Those Who Entered the New World through Ellis Island in Their Own Words. New York, NY: Metro Books, 2002.
d’Appollonia, Ariane Chebel and Simon Reich, eds. Immigration, Integration, and Security: America and Europe in Comparative Perspective. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Daniels, Roger and Otis Graham. Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present. Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger L. Nichols and David M. Reimers, eds. Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
Graham, Otis L. Unguarded Gates: A History of America's Immigration Crisis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
Guskin, Jane and David L. Wilson. The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 2007.
Handlin, Oscar. The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Higham, John. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860–1925. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Immigrants: The New Americans. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1999.
Jacoby, Tamar, ed. Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2004.
Michaels, Walter B. Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
Renshon, Stanley A. The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2005.
Swain, Carol M., ed. Debating Immigration. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. The Settling of North America: Atlas of the Great Migrations from the Ice Age to the Present. New York, NY: MacMillan, 1995.
The U.S. Department of State assumes no responsibility for the content and availability of the resources listed above. All Internet links were active as of February 2008.
