May, 2006, coverage of a Chicago rally to protest legislation proposed in the House of Representatives that would strengthen border protection as the U.S. tries to halt illegal immigration. Video and photo slideshow of the protest...

This is a report of the analysis of national survey data to gauge the well-being of immigrant children compared with children in native-born families. The authors examine different areas, including family income and environment, child...

This article focuses on the "Nation of Immigrants" teaching project will develop one-week teaching modules for high school and community college teachers of U.S. history on topics related to immigration and immigrants. It includes a...

This timeline looks at the immigration policies and associated rules put in place, from the forefathers' first steps to the challenges faced in today's globalized world.

Article reports on the complicated feelings that Americans have regarding the social issue of illegal immigration.

Article delves into scams that target immigrants and the immigration process.

Fascinating look at the Mexican viewpoint of the immigration debate in the United States. Transcript, audio, and video of this July, 2006, report available.

This article focuses on a guide for teaching immigration. It is a guide to smart, accessible materials on U.S. immigration for teachers to use, as well as advocates, activists, and others. The guide consists of a thematically-organized...

This site is provided for by National Public Radio. There has been some time since the 9/11 tragedy when Americans were upset with immigration laws. Where is America now? How do Americans look at immigrants and the diversity they bring...

This article focuses teaching student to create digital immigrant stories. Immigrant Stories teaches participants to create digital stories about their personal or family immigration experiences. Digital stories are brief (3-5 minute)...

This article focuses on the role of an immigration historian. The future of immigration history is a blending of the immigration story with the wider historical world: an immigration historian, a labor historian, and a diplomatic historian.

This country profile examines key legislative events that form the history of the U.S. immigration system, the size and attributes of the immigrant population in the country, the characteristics of legal and illegal immigration streams,...

Interesting survey results and discussion about immigration, particularly illegal immigration. View how the American public views immigration in this March, 2006, survey/article.

This article is written by a doctoral student of American foreign relations and immigration policy who doing research in Cameroon, Africa. In 1990, just 3000 Cameroonian immigrants resided in the United States. Today the number has...

This article focuses on immigration history as shown in the book "The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority" (Princeton University Press, 2015 by Madeline Hsu. It intervenes in immigration history by tracking...

This article focuses on how to support immigrants and international students in the current anti-immigration climate. Two authors discuss their work: "Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border" by Ana Rosas...

This article focuses on immigration historians in the news in 2018. It provides a list of links to 2018 immigration publications.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Famine and political revolution in Europe led millions of Irish and German citizens to immigrate to America in the mid-nineteenth century.

This article examines the battle over illegal immigration.

This article focuses on South Asian immigrants from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh in the late 20th century attempted to infuse home with their interactions in America, to negotiate their own positions in society. In their pursuit of...