The Immigration and Ethnic History Society is open to
all persons interested in North American immigration and ethnic history.
Members of the Society receive its scholarly journal, the Journal
of American Ethnic History, which appears quarterly and has been
published since 1981, and its biannual Newsletter, published
each year in May and November.
The Society's stated purpose is to promote the study of the history of
immigration to the United States and Canada from all parts of the world,
including studies of the background of emigration in the countries of
origin; to promote the study of ethnic groups in the United States, including
regional groups, native Americans and forced immigrants; to promote understanding
of the processes of acculturation and of conflict; to furnish through
the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter information as
to research, organizations, meetings and publications in the field of
immigrant history; to help organize sessions on immigration and ethnicity
at meetings of learned societies; and generally to serve the field of
immigration-ethnic history with special reference to professional scholarship.
The Society, numbering about 700 members (approximately evenly divided
among individuals, mostly academic scholars, and institutions, mostly
libraries and research institutions), publishes the quarterly Journal
of American Ethnic History and the semiannual Immigration and Ethnic
History Newsletter (formerly the Immigration History Newsletter).
It holds an annual meeting and dinner in conjunction with the annual meeting
of the Organization of American Historians. It organizes and sponsors
sessions on immigration and ethnic subjects at various academic conferences.
It also sponsors awards for outstanding books and articles and an award
to encourage promising dissertation research. The Society is a member
of the Association of North American Immigration Institutions (ANAII).
Membership in the IEHS includes a subscription to the JAEH,
as well as to the IEHS Newsletter.
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