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Issue Coverage by the Media

Government

Organizations

  • American Friends Service Committee: Immigrants' Rights
    http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/
    Included is a section "Learn About Immigrants' Rights" which gives an overview of immigration in the United States, including recent law and policy. The American Friends website is also a good place to learn about other global issues that adversely affect the poor and developing world.

  • American Immigration Law Foundation
    http://www.ailf.org/
    The American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF) is a nonprofit education organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy and the value of immigration to American society, and to advancing fundamental fairness and due process under the law for immigrants. Includes material on immigration reform and policy, as well as a public education section with extensive resources on a variety of immigration topics.

  • American Immigration Lawyers Association
    http://www.aila.org/
    Includes "Find an immigration lawyer"

  • Center for Immigration Studies
    http://www.cis.org/
    This think tank for immigration studies is "animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants but a warmer welcome for those admitted." Their home page links to recent news articles about immigration from a variety of sources.

  • U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
    http://www.refugees.org/
    Deals with the problem of refugees and resulting immigration throughout the world.

History

  • American Heritage: Immigration in America
    http://www.americanheritage.com/immigration/
    Articles from the magazine about the history of immigration in the United States.

  • Harvard University Library: Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
    http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
    Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

  • HistoryNet: Immigrants: The Last Time America Sent Her Own Packing
    "Fueled by the Great Depression, an anti-immigrant frenzy engulfed hundreds of thousands of legal American citizens in a drive to ‘repatriate’ Mexicans to their homeland." An article by Steve Boisson about anti-Mexican feeling in the 1930s as portrayed in the book Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s by Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodríguez.

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Selected Books

You can browse for books in the catalog under Emigration and immigration and United States -- Emigration and immigration.

For a history of immigrants, browse Immigrants -- United States -- History or see the series Immigrants in America and Coming to America.

    Guarding the Golden Door Alzo, Lisa A. with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh's Immigrants (2006)
    Pittsburgh's Immigrants pays tribute to the hardworking men and women who made significant contributions to the growth and development of western Pennsylvania and left a legacy of rich and vibrant ethnic culture that endures to the present day.
    Guarding the Golden Door Daniels, Roger.
    Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (2004)
    The federal government's efforts to pick and choose among the multitude of immigrants seeking to enter the United States began with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Conceived in ignorance and falsely presented to the public, it had undreamed-of consequences, and this pattern has been rarely deviated from since. As renowned historian Roger Daniels shows in this brilliant new work, America's inconsistent, often illogical, and always cumbersome immigration policy has profoundly affected our recent past.
    Immigration Immigration (2005)
    Louise I. Gerdes, (Editor)
    This is part of the Current Controversies series by Greenhaven Press and is an anthology of differing views on the impact of immigration, the treatment of immigrants, and how legal and illegal immigration should be managed.
    Crossing Over Martínez, Rubén
    Crossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail (2001)
    Crossing Over follows the exodus of the Cha´vez clan, an extended Mexican family from their small southern Mexican town of Cheraacute;n to California, Wisconsin, and Missouri
    The New Americans Martínez, Rubén
    The New Americans (2004)
    In this companion to the PBS television series of the same name, Martinez narrates the journeys of recent American immigrant families from Palestine, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and India, offering a portrait of the United States' new multicultural landscape.
    Working toward whiteness Roediger, David R.
    Working toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White; the Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2005)
    A masterful history by an award-winning writer, Working Toward Whiteness recounts how American ethnic groups considered white today, such as Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans, once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. Roediger charts the strange transformation of new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today-and into America's cultural insiders.
    Strangers among us Suro, Roberto.
    Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America (1998)
    Suro, a reporter for the Washington Post, gathers person-in-the-street stories of the Cuban experience in Miami; the Guatemalan in Houston; the Puerto Rican in New York; the Dominican in New York; and the Mexican in Los Angeles.