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Senate Bill a Step Backwards for Immigrant Rights
This article examines a recent bill debated in the U.S. Senate regarding immigration and border policy.
Institute for Policy Studies
Mr. Bush Goes to Mexico: Recommendations for Immigration Discussion
This article examines immigration issues between the United States and Mexico, with problems faced by both nations and the individuals themselves.
BBC
Bbc News: Migration Key Issue as Mexico's Calderon Visits Us
BBC News examines the issues of migration from Mexico to the United States. Arizona's illegal immigration and the implications of the drug violence in Mexico on economic cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. are discussed in some...
PBS
Pbs: The New Americans
This site from PBS chronicles the miniseries coming in April of 2004 entitled "The New Americans." The site documents the new American immigrants: read stories of immigrants from Argentina, China, Mexico, Hungary, Taiwan, Russia, and more.
Other
Peasant Social Worlds: The Other Way Out: Us Migration
This is an article on current migration trends from Mexico to the US. The article discusses the impact of legislation and economic crisis on migration.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Mexican Colonization Laws
Read about the Colonization Law of August 18, 1824 where a Mexican statute allowed foreigners to immigrate to the country.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: The Places of Migration in United States History
MIT provides and extensive list of reading and viewing materials in regard to the migration within the United States. Lecture notes and possible assignments included.
Other
Border Film Project
Experience the results of the Border Film Project that attempts to "show the human face of immigration" from both sides of the border. This site showcases photos and twelve video clips that were recorded with undocumented migrants and...
Migration Policy Institute
Migration Policy Institute: Country Profiles
A catalogue of the migration experience that looks at the diverse flows of immigrants around the world. Visitors can click on the profiles of individual countries to access brief summaries of vital data, immigration policies, history,...
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Anglo Amer. Colonization in Texas: Texas 1836 1848
A brief look at the declaration of independence from Mexico by Texas in 1836, the removal of restrictions on slavery, and how this dramatically increased the population and led to a much greater reliance on the cotton industry in the...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child" by F. Jimenez
A collection of autobiographical short stories about a boy whose family moves from America to Mexico where they become migrant workers. Selected (6) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair with "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Esperanza Rising" by Pam Munoz Ryan
Esperanza is a young girl forced to leave behind a life of luxury in Mexico for a farm workers camp in California. The new experience brings Esperanza timeless lessons on life and love. Selected (7) reading passages (grades 5-8) to pair...
Curated OER
Mexican Workers
This article describes Mexicans coming to work in the United States in order to make enough money to send to their families in Mexico, though many, as stated in the article, want to eventually return to Mexico.
PBS
The Sixth Section
Site is a companion piece to a PBS special on a group of Mexican immigrants who live and work in America but send their money back home to Mexico.
Curated OER
Pbs News Hours: Q&a: Calderon Visits u.s. With Security, Immigration in Mind
Shannon On'Neil, Latin American studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, answers questions posed by PBS about Mexico's President Felipe Calderon's visit to the United States. The Q & Q covers a range of issues from...
BBC
Bbc: Us Brings in New Passport Rules
Because of concern about terrorism and drug smuggling, the US tightened its travel regulations requiring a passport for people flying into the US from Canada and Mexico. 1/07
PBS
Pbs: New Perspectives on the West
This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....
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