Immigration to the United States: Selected Internet Resources

Library of Congress

Library of Congress

Library of Congress

Library of Congress

Jacob Riis’s prose and photography about the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.

A presentation from the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

Recommended by Dr. Wright

"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"

Recommended by Dr. Wright

U. of Illinois at Chicago--"900 separate texts, including correspondence, newspaper articles, unpublished memoirs, magazine and journal articles, maps, and hundreds of images of historic significance for documenting the life and times of Jane Addams, the history of the social settlement movement and of Hull-House, and the history of the Near West Side neighborhood and its immigrant communities"

"Mission . . . is to strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how Americans think and act towards immigration now and in the future"--See Immigration Policy Center/Research & Publications

From the Southern Poverty Law Center

"A project of the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Brown University, and The Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso"

U. of Houston

"The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States."

Library of Congress

". . . to advance our understanding of the complex processes of international migration and immigration to the United States"

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

"Gather(s) social as well as economic information on Mexican-US migration"

"Authoritative data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends"

"Providing unbiased and unparalleled research that bridges the gap between American leaders and what the public really thinks about issues"

"Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century."

Princeton U.

"Source for comprehensive, independent and nonpartisan information about U.S. federal immigration enforcement"

From the Migration Policy Institute, "an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide"

From the U.S. Census

Quantitative facts on American history--includes information on population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations

"A demographic and employment profile of United States farm workers"

U. of Virginia

Full title: History of immigration to the United States, exhibiting the number, sex, age, occupation, and country of birth, of passengers arriving ... by sea from foreign countries, from September 30, 1819 to December 31, 1855

"provides timely, factual and nonpartisan information and analysis of international migration issues"

From the Pew Hispanic Center

Cases and decisions, legislation and advocacy, etc.

"Nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice"

"Leading immigrant advocacy organization in the country with a mission to advocate for the value of immigrants and immigration to the nation"

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