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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Involuntary Migration: Testimonies of Women Refugees

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource includes memoirs of two women who were forced to flee civil conflicts in their countries. The goal is to further the understanding of how men and women experience political and religious exile differently.
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The Washington Post

Washington Post: Episode 3 of the Constitutional Podcast: 'Nationality' by Lill

For Students 9th - 10th
This podcast episode focuses on the 1898, the Supreme Court landmark case that Wong Kim Ark, a child of Chinese parents who was himself born in San Francisco, was indeed an American citizen. This right to citizenship derived from...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Urbanization & Migration in the Developing World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson presents the scale of recent urbanization in different global regions and the diverse roles that migrants play in contributing to urbanization. The following graph, map, video, and news report provide a general overview of...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Transnational Social Networks: Historically & Today

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource compares oral history and in-depth interviews from two different areas and periods of immigration to the United States. Its goal is to complicate notions of migration as a unidirectional and permanent activity.
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration History: Remittances & Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource uses maps, a video and texts to provide an understanding of the financial flows of migrant remittances, money sent home by migrants. Its goal is to encourage students to think critically about the multiple impacts of...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration: Refugees in Contemporary Global Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The following sources include a news report in 2007 on Iraqi refugees in Sweden and interviews in 1998 of Hmong refugees living in Minnesota. Its goal is to explore the refugee experience, both from an international or geopolitical...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration: Racial Encounters in Colonial America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Copper plate engravings offer one example of the racialization of colonized peoples. At the turn of the 17th century, most Europeans' visual conceptions of the Americas came from the engravings of the workshop of Flemish print-maker...
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ArgentinaXplora.com

Argentinaexplora.com: Las Corrientes Inmigratorias en Argentina

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; this page discusses the various waves of foreign immigration that Argentina has experienced.
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USA Today

Usa Today: Towns Take Aim at Illegal Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines the battle over illegal immigration.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Genevieve Carpio, "Teaching #Immigration Syllabus"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on a series of #syllabi designed to provide a historical and theoretical context for critical social issues. This article addresses #ImmigrationSyllabus written in January of 2017. It provides a foundation for...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Jeff Turner, "Mormonism, 'Asiatic' Polygamy, and Immigration Regulation"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on immigration bans in American history including Teddy Roosevelt's ban on "anybody who believed in polygamy, promoted polygamy, or lived in a country that practiced polygamy." It discusses the Mormons and the Chinese.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Carly Goodman, "Debating Diversity: The Diversity Visa Lottery"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the history of the Irish immigrants in the 80s and 90s who fought for ways to enter the US legally, the diversity in America, and the impact of the election of President Trump.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Ellen Engseth, "Resources for You at the Ihrc Archives"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers to share IEHS's extensive immigration resources with educators and explains how to get access them. It also invites scholars to consider applying for their signature Grant-in-Aid Awards, offered annually, for support...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Gamze Kati Gumus, "Disposable: Immigrant Bodies in Contemporary Politics"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the fate of immigrants and refugees during a time of political efforts to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the US. It focuses on the drowning of the Kurdi brothers.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Torrie Hester "Repatriation Agreements of the U. S., Mexico, and Canada"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on repatriation agreements, which streamline immigrant removals after a person has been ordered from a country. Without these agreements, officials deporting an immigrant must secure approval through individual...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Philip D. Erenrich, "Bring in the Gypsies: A Case Study in Race and u.s."

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on an article in July 1909 New York City newspapers reporting the immigration and immediate deportation of a family consisting of 24 Gypsies.
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 12 15

For Students 11th - 12th
Syllabus: Week 12: Undocumented Immigrants/Immigrant Rights. Syllabus: Week 13: Border Walls and Border Policing. Syllabus: Week 14: Post 9/11 America, and Syllabus: Week 15: Deportation Nation.
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University of Minnesota

Univerisity of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 9 11

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Syllabus: Week 9: The 1965 Hart-Celler Act and the Remaking of Immigrant America. Syllabus: Week 10: Refugee and Asylum Policy, and Syllabus Week 11: How Globalization Produces Migration: Immigration Law, Economic Policy, and Global...
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University of Minnesota

Univerisity of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 3 6

For Students 11th - 12th
Syllabus for Week 3: Global Migrations, 1830-1930 Syllabus: Week 4: Historical Origins of Contemporary Nativism and Xenophobia. Syllabus: Week 5: Mass Migration and the Rise of Federal Immigration Law, and Week 6: The Closed Gate...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 1 2

For Students 11th - 12th
Week 1: Why study immigration? What does the study of immigration reveal about U.S. history and which stories we tell about ourselves as a people? Week 2: Settlers, Servants, and Slaves in British, French, and Spanish Colonial America:...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Journal of American Ethnic History

For Students 9th - 10th
The Journal of American Ethnic History, the official journal of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, is published quarterly and focuses on the immigrant and ethnic/racial history of the North American people. Subscription required.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Iehs Newsletter

For Students 9th - 10th
The Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter is published twice yearly. The Newsletter contains articles of historiographical and pedagogical interest about the field of immigration and ethnic history.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Madeline Y. Hsu, "The Myth of the Line"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the 1965 Immigration Act which opened American doors to people from all parts of the globe, regardless of skin color, but by focusing on re-uniting families, it discriminates some groups.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Lacroix, the Transplantation of French Canada: A Challenge to Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the migration of French Canadians into the New England area and the impact on the area and the Roman Catholic Church. By the Great Depression, nearly a million Canadians of French descent had settled in the United...