Ethnicity and Migration Links
This listing of im/migration links was originally created Brian Gratton and Mary Ellen Smith at Arizona State University.
links to web resources that provide on-line materials for teaching and research in ethnic and immigration history
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Governmental Links
American Memory Page -- An exhibit sponsored by the Library of Congress which includes photos and documents. An excellent teaching resource.
Bureau of Census -- Features social, demographic and economic data, as well as links and publications. Offers access to immigration and ethnicity statistics.
Census Briefs -- This Census Bureau site furnishes access to full-text editions of U.S. Census Briefs from 1996-2000. These reports include useful demographic, social, housing, and economic data. Documents are in PDF format.
Coming to America: A Profile of the Nation's Foreign-Born -- a Census Bureau brief in PDF format based on March 2000 data from the Current Population Survey.
Foreign-Born Populations -- Provides government statistics on foreign-born population in an electronic format. To access the most recent data (December 2001) in PDF format, click here. For detailed tables, click here.
Information on Hispanics -- This excellent site provides historical census statistics on the Hispanic population of the Unites States from 1850-1990. Also available is the Census Bureau's March 2000 Report on the Hispanic Population in the United States, which features 42 relevant tables (in ASCII format).
Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity -- This site offers a cartographer's-eye-view of changes in ethnic and racial diversity since the 1990 census. This report is a series of maps, without critical analysis, that is provided in PDF format.
Bureau of Labor Statistics -- Offers access to federal statistics and other information, primarily on labor issues but including educational resources, from the Department of Labor. Use of the search engine reveals numerous hits on immigration topics.
Federal Statistics -- Offers access to information from more than 70 Federal agencies. The site is fully searchable and has a "MapStats" feature that displays state maps according to parameters you choose.
INS -- On-line home of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Immigration and Naturalization Legislation -- This site, sponsored by the INS, offers a chronology (with text) of federal immigration legislation from 1790 to the present. An excellent resource for any immigration scholar.
The 1999 Statistical Yearbook of the INS -- Now available online in PDF format, this document includes sections dedicated to Immigration and Enforcement.
The Legalized Population Survey -- A public use data file that contains information about a sample of 6,193 undocumented migrants who were living in the United States in 1986/87 when they sought legal permanent residence through the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Survey data was collected from the entire group in 1989, and again (for 4,012 of these respondents) in 1992. These zip files can be downloaded.
Library of Congress -- Includes photos and documents as well as the Library catalog.
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) -- Includes information about doing research in the National Archives, along with online exhibits.
NARA Electronic Records Archives -- A very useful site offering access to photos, drawings, maps, charts, and documents.
Policy Links
Americans for Better Immigration -- An anti-immigration site which posits demographic explanations for its positions and offers immigration-policy "report cards" for every member of Congress, based on a variety of votes dating back to 1989.
American Immigration Lawyers Association -- A lawyer's group with an obviously positive stance toward immigration.
The Brookings Institute -- Offers text of Brookings research on immigration, as well as a plethora of links to other immigration policy sites.
Center for Immigration Studies -- A non-profit research center that examines the impact of immigration on the United States. Restrictionist but scholarly. Mark Krikorian, Executive Director, runs indispensable listservs for contemporary immigration news. To access a searchable database sponsored by CIS which lists sanctions imposed on employers who employed illegal aliens, click here.
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Immigrant Welfare Use -- This 2002 report by George Borjas examines the impact of 1996 federal reform legislation on immigrant populations in the U.S. You can also read the transcript of a panel discussion on this paper that was held 28 March 2002 here.
Federation for Immigration Reform -- Sponsored by an organization that seeks to restrict U.S. immigration, this site provides information supporting its position, as well as some general U.S. immigration statistics and a take on U.S. immigration history.
National Council of La Raza -- An advocacy group for Hispanics, generally pro-immigration and particularly attentive to Mexican and other Hispanic immigrant issues.
National Immigration Forum -- A strongly pro-immigration advocacy group, founded by the inimitable Rick Swartz.
The Pew Hispanic Center -- A joint project of the Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, this site documents the Latino experience in a changing America. The site offers links to the organization's research papers, reports, and studies.
How Many Undocumented: The Numbers Behind the U.S.-Mexico Migration Talks -- This paper from the Pew Hispanic Center discusses statistics and plans relevant to this binational discussion. In PDF format.
Academic Links
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies -- The Institute officially merged with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania on 1 January 2002. The Institute is currently closed as its extensive archival collection is being moved to the HSP facility a few blocks away. It will reopen to researchers this summer. There is more information available on the HSP site, and the original Balch website remains operational at the present time.
The California Geographical Survey -- Maintained by the Department of Geography at California State University, Northridge, this site offers a wealth of valuable maps as well as a collection of maps detailing United States--First Ancestry (according to 1990 census data) listed by ethnic group. An invaluable resource.
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies -- This site, based at the University of California, San Diego, describes its eponymous program and offers a group of useful hyperlinks to online texts of working papers, as well as information on upcoming seminars and conferences.
CitySites -- Sponsored by the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham in the U.K., this site features innovative hypertext on the history of New York and Chicago (1870s-1930s), with some material on immigrants.
Ethnic Bibliographies -- A wonderful bibliographical resource, listed by ethnic group, compiled by Professor Jon T. Kilpinen, Department of Geography, Valparaiso University.
The European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) -- This site, maintained by the University of Utrecht in Utrecht, Holland, offers one-stop shopping for migration- and immigration-related studies in Europe. Check out their Virtual Library, which maintains a collection of links to databases and research facilities around the world.
Historical Demographic, Economic, and Social Data of the United States -- This site allows users to reproduce census data from 1790-1960.
H-Urban's Online Webography -- The staff of H-Urban has assembled an outstanding collection of links to various sites featuring data on immigration and urban history. Up-to-date and well-categorized, this list features links to online exhibitions, databases, photos, and more.
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society -- The core academic society for immigration and ethnic historians in the United States. (You need the Flash Player to view the site, which can be downloaded free here.
Immigration in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era -- A useful bibliographic essay provided by SHGAPE, a discussion list for the Gilded era and Progressive age.
The Im/migration Intranet at ASU -- A page maintained by H-Ethnic co-editor Brian Gratton for a group of im/migration specialists at Arizona State University. It provides a longer, but less selective, list of immigration-related links.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research -- This homepage offers several useful databases, as well as information on using ICPSR resources.
IPUMS -- A University of Minnesota project under the direction of Steve Ruggles, this site provides a wealth of information on immigrant and ethnic groups through on-line data samples from the United States Census. The data description page offers quick access to basic statistics; more advanced uses require downloading files.
The Mexican Migration Project -- Part of Douglas Massey's research program, the site makes available life histories of Mexican immigrants in addition to data files.
Migration Dialogue -- Sponsored by U.C. Davis, this site offers immigration news and information on comparative migration policy research.
The New Americans, edited by James P. Smith -- Full online text of a major 1997 book on immigration in the United States.
The Pluralism Project -- Sponsored by Harvard University's Committee on the Study of Religion, this project seeks to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to new immigrant religious communities. The site offers a wealth of information, including a selection of links classified by religious tradition.
The Refugee Caselaw Site -- A searchable database of international case law documenting approximately 400 cases involving refugee and asylum law compiled by James C. Hathaway of the University of Michigan Law School. Documents are provided in PDF format.
Tangled Roots -- A Yale University-sponsored projects that seeks to investigate and disseminate information about all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction, this site offers a wealth of pertinent documents, information, and links on African-American and Irish-American history.
University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center -- The premier immigration history archive.
University of Southern California-Korean Heritage Library -- Offers a bibliography, maps, videos, and a database for students of Korean history. The site also links to USC's East Asian Studies website.
University of Texas Map Collection -- An excellent resource for maps of the world, as well as historical maps of the United States.
U.S. Latinos and Latinas and World War II -- Sponsored by the University of Texas, this site offers a wealth of information on the roles of Hispanics during World War II.
Virtual New York City -- Currently in development at the New Media Lab, CUNY Graduate Center, this website offers a virtual exhibit on the Draft Riots of 1863. Presentations on other events that altered the course of New York City's development are in the works and will be online soon.
Other Links
Africa 2000 -- Contains the full text of Lothrop Stoddard's 1922 book The Rising Tide of Color Against White-World Supremacy, an explicitly racist manifesto against immigration in the early 20th century.
The American Italian Historical Association -- Offers a wealth of information on the AIHA and a prodigious number of links to related sources, both American And Italian.
The American Political Association's Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -- This site features resources on Asian Pacific, Native American, African American, and Latino issues, as well as a unique and valuable list of books, publishers, and editors that deal with immigration and related issues.
The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee -- This organization's site offers a vast amount of timely information regarding the reaction of the Arab-American community to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, as well as a collection of useful educational resources.
Asian Migration Atlas -- Sponsored by the Scalabrini Migration Center, this site offers a vast amount of well-organized data on Asian migration.
Asian-Nation -- A web source for issues that affect Asian-Americans, including some very good resources on immigration and ethnicity, as well as sequential maps demonstrating the Asian-American population's distribution and concentration in Los Angeles county over time.
The Atlantic Monthly on Immigration -- A compilation of useful articles about immigration from the 1990s.
The Changing Character of Immigration -- A selection from World's Work (Vol. 1, 1900-1901) written by Kate Holladay Claghorn, this page offers wonderful images and graphs, as well as a taste of fin-de-siècle attitudes toward immigration.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) -- This non-profit organization's website provides an Islamic perspective on issues of importance to the American public. It contains a vast amount of up-to-date information on the Islamic community worldwide.
The Cultural History of the German-Speaking Community in Alberta -- Sponsored by the German-Canadian Association of Alberta and the University of Alberta, this site offers a searchable bibliography spanning the years 1882-2000, as well as photos and maps.
The Danish Immigrant Museum -- Based in Elk Horn, Iowa, this site offers information about the Museum, current news, and a number of links to other Danish-American websites.
The David Rumsey Map Collection -- A fabulous collection of more than 6,400 items, this site contains a diverse selection of maps, most from nineteenth-century American atlases and school geographies. This technical-award-winning site offers the user a choice of three browsers (a general search, a Java client, and a GIS) that allow varied views of the maps available. The files are large, but the download is worth the wait. An excellent resource in development.
Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America -- A unique and somewhat right-leaning organization that explores links between immigration and overpopulation in the U.S.
EH Net (Economic History Services) -- Links to a very useful article on U.S. immigration by Illinois State University's Raymond Cohn. The site itself contains a plethora of new articles by economic historians.
Harper's -- An entrancing trip through historical articles from Harper's Weekly magazine, several relating to immigration and ethnicity and all valuable for teaching.
Immigration and Caricature -- A wonderful collection of ethnic cartoons from the Michigan State University Museum's Appel collection. It consists of three parts: Welcome to All, Caricature and Stereotype, and Assimilation and Acceptance.
The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration -- Edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston, this book can be read in its entirety online, or purchased from the National Academy Press.
ImmigrationIndex -- A clearinghouse for web links related to immigration, this site offers electronic resources on subjects ranging from asylum to studies.
The Journal of American Ethnic History -- Nonmembers of this site may view tables of contents for past issues; members may download full-text articles.
Journalist's Guide to Immigration Issues -- Sponsored by Public Agenda Online with utilitarian information on public opinion and policy analysis.
National Geographic: Maps and Geography -- A high-energy site featuring standard Atlas maps, interactive Dynamic maps, and a small collection of historical maps, as well as links to other worthy online map resources. Downloading maps may take some time, but is worth the wait. The "Flags and Facts" section is a good quick reference tool.
"No Irish Need Apply": A Myth of Victimization -- A monograph by our own Richard Jensen which features illustrations, links, and the musical accompaniment of Brendan Nolan singing "No Irish Need Apply" (if you have the Real Audio plug-in-- if not, click here to download for free).
Open Doors -- Sponsored by the Institute of International Education, this site provides a wealth of useful statistical information on international students residing in the United States.
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America's Archival Information Center -- Offers links to world archival collections, online catalogs, and archives with Polish holdings in the US and Canada, as well as information on preserving archival materials.
Population Reference Bureau -- A wonderful resource that offers news and reports; population data accessible at world, country, or U.S. levels; resources for educators; and links to other useful sites, including Ameristat.
Ameristat, a "One-stop source for U.S. population data" sponsored by the Population Reference Bureau and the university-based Social Science and Data Analysis Network. It features summaries and graphics of thirteen U.S. population trends in an easily navigable format.
Rand Corporation's Labor and Population Division -- Offers the entire text of Kevin McCarthy's World Population Shifts: Boom or Doom? in PDF format. This is an interesting monograph on the relationship between immigration and population growth in developed and underdeveloped societies.
Roland Marchand's Online Slide Collection -- A veritable treasure trove of wonderful images on subjects ranging from Abolitionism to Women. A great teaching resource. This link will take you to the main category page, where you can choose the subjects you wish to view.
Shema Arizona -- This website of The Arizona Jewish Historical Society Oral History Project offers online transcripts, accompanied by brief recorded excerpts, of interviews conducted with American Jews who settled in Arizona. The collection may be searched by interviewee or keyword.
The UNESCO Migration Research Institute Database -- This extensive, searchable database provides information on some 100 research and training institutes in 32 countries, as well as access to details on more than 30 periodicals dealing with migration.
The View of German and English Social Scientists On the Irish in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- Links to a PDF file of this monograph by Martin Müller of the University of Hamburg. You will need Adobe Acrobat to view and/or store it. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, click here to download for free.
(Pictured at the top of the page: Jacob and Cecelia Guydish, children of Slovakian Immigrants, 1925.)
This page last updated 26 April 2003
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