Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Bryan Winston, Contesting Immigration Incarceration
This article focuses on an example of Enrique Betancourt, a Mexican immigrant who was incarcerated for larceny and was released in an unusual manner. This case shows how both Mexican migrants and Mexican officials initiated deportations...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Lucy Salyer Uncovers the History of Expatriation & the Fenian Brotherhood
Scholar Lucy Salyer writes about Irish Americans who joined the Fenian Brotherhood around the time of the U.S. Civil War and the shifting ideas of allegiance, citizenship, and expatriation implicated in their story. Read the following...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Expert Witness Database at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
This article focuses on the need for expert witnesses which is growing as immigration judges are requiring more and more evidence to back claims made by asylum seekers. The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) at the University...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Carl Lindskoog, "Immigration Detention: A Selective Bibliography"
This bibliography supplements an essay in the Summer 2019 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter. This list shows, scholars in an array of disciplines have shaped the historiography of immigration detention. It includes...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Melanie Simone Lorenz, "Promoting Immigration in 19th Century America"
This blog focuses on the U.S.'s need for immigration in the 19th and early 20th century to satisfy particular labor needs and increase investments.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Chinese Facts for Atlantic Papers
From the Museum of San Francisco, this is an article that appeared in print in 1874. Shows image of political cartoon. Links to lots more articles concerning the Chinese immigrant.
Other
The Progressive Magazine
Homepage of the national magazine for peace and social justice, THE PROGRESSIVE. Read recent news regarding social justice here.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Population Growth
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how rates of birth, death, immigration, and emigration affect population growth.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 6-8) to pair with the nonfiction book "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago. Esmeralda Santiago, also known as Negi, describes her childhood growing up in Puerto Rico and her eventual...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets
This is a collection of 35 Grade-Leveled text sets (4-11). They are great for social studies teachers or for building background knowledge in reading class, CommonLit's text sets cover a range of historical, cultural, and political...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: Immigration
This is a collection of 24 Grade-Leveled texts (5-11) on the topic of Immigration. Most Americans can trace their ancestry back to immigrants coming to the New World. Learn about America's history of immigration, particularly during the...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Native American Unit
This lesson activity introduces to the students the diversity that exists among Native Americans. It provides a map of the tribes in the United States, the tribes in various sections of the US and information about the cultures of these...
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Iehs: Iehs Online: The Website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
This is the website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. It features blogs about the history of United States immigration, newsletters, Journal of American Ethnic History, and educational resources concerning the history of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Detainees
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the conditions that have caused some Zimbabweans to leave their homeland for Botswana.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Experiencing Ellis Island:immigration Project
Make Ellis Island come alive for U.S. history students by processing younger students in a recreation of the immigration center. Recreate the uncertainty, fear, and confusion many immigrants experienced by arranging a variety of stations...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Welcome to All?
This activity is designed to be taught after an introduction to immigration history or as a culminating activity. This is a hands-on, technology-based activity that relates a student's individual immigration history to the boom of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Blogging, Civic Engagement and the Dream Act
This multi-task lesson asks young scholars to look at the DREAM Act in the context of immigration reform and also to reflect on blogging as civic engagement.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1980 Present: Migration/immigration in the 1990s/2000s
A quick check for understanding of migration and immigration in the 1990s and 2000s.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Population Growth and Immigration
Questions related to population growth and immigration.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Immigration Since 1965
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about immigration since 1965. With the landmark Hart-Celler Act of 1965, American immigration expanded in both size and scope.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Through Ellis Island and Angel Island, 1870 1920
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about Ellis Island and Angel Island. Discover America's most famous era in immigration history. The Golden Door, also known as Ellis Island, opened to...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Coming to America
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about immigration. Follow generations of immigrants as they traveled to the U.S. eager to start a new life.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Immigration to America in the 1800s
Young scholars will be introduced to the reasons people came to America and the different modes of transportation used for the journey. Students will follow the journey of one man from Switzerland to Ohio.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Immigrant Rights Protests Spring 2006
Overview of the 2006 immigrant rights protests in response to a draconian immigration restriction bill that had passed the House of Representatives.