Since this issue of BPD Update
has the theme of immigration, a brief search of the web was conducted to identify web sites with information about immigration. Historical and factual information is available along with extensive resource material
for those working on immigration issues. This list is divided into two sections: Immigration History and Facts and Immigration Resources. Only government and agency resources were searched in this review.
There are many for-profit companies that provide immigration services for a fee, but these were not covered in
this review.
Immigration History and Facts:
The Census Bureau provides
demographic data on immigration at: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/immigration.html
A second Census
Bureau site, “US Foreign-Born Population”, includes Powerpoint Slide Shows at:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign.html This site also
provides data tables and reports.
The Library of Congress History
of Immigration site traces the history of immigration to the United States for people of various nationalities. The home page is: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html
The site provides a historical
overview of immigration history for various groups:
- Native American: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/native_american.html
- African: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/african.html
- German: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/german.html
- Irish: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/irish.html
- Scandinavian: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/scandinavian.html
- Italian: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/italian.html
- Japanese: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/japanese.html
- Mexican: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/mexican.html
- Chinese: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/chinese.html
- Puerto Rican/Cuban: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/cuban.html
- Polish/Russian: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/polish.html
There is a timeline
that shows the chronology of these various waves of immigration: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/timeline.html Lessons and projects
are provided to assist in teaching about immigration, including an introduction to oral history: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/resources.html
Finally, there
are interviews with various recent individual immigrants from various countries: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/interv/toc.php
A related Library
of Congress Page, American Memory, provides additional information on American Expansion, African Americans, Native Americans,
and Women: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The history of
Ellis Island can be found at: http://www.ellisisland.org/
The Jane
Addams Hull House Museum
has a web site: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ with an additional page providing information about Jane Addams: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/newdesign/ja.html
Additional web sites were
found that trace the history of specific groups:
- African Diaspora - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/diaspora.html
- South Asian Diaspora - http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/diaspora.html
- First Nations - http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
Immigration Resources:
The Bureau of
Citizenship and Immigration Services (Formerly Immigration and Naturalization Services or INS): http://www.bcis.gov/ is the US Government’s official site for information on both immigration
and citizenship. (This site was not working at the time this article was written. It is currently being updated.)
The American
Bar Association provides a page of immigration resources located at: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/focus/immresources.html
The National
Immigration Forum provides a variety of resources, posted between March 2000 and January 2007.
These resources explore various recent and current issues related to immigration:
http://www.immigrationforum.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=148
The Minnesota
Advocates for Human Rights site (Energy of a Nation: Immigration Resources)
provides both information and resources about legislation and ways to take action on immigration issues: http://www.immigrationforum.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=148
The Hastings
Law Library site provides information on immigration law/case law: http://library.uchastings.edu/library/Legal%20Research/Research%20Guides/immigrationresources.htm
The Brookings
Institute Metropolitan Policy Program provides a variety of resources on current issues and policies at: http://www.brookings.edu/metro/immigration.htm
The Immigration
Legal Resource Center
began as a group of volunteer and law students with an interest in immigration. This
site provides extensive information about immigration and offers a listserv for interested readers. http://www.ilrc.org/
