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 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 article focuses on the history of the relationship between the US and Mexico regarding immigration. In the 1930s, the U.S. government forced hundreds of thousands of ethnic Mexicans, including some U.S. citizens, back across the...

This article focuses on an article in July 1909 New York City newspapers reporting the immigration and immediate deportation of a family consisting of 24 Gypsies.

This article focuses on repatriation agreements, which streamline immigrant removals after a person has been ordered from a country. Without these agreements, officials deporting an immigrant must secure approval through individual...

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.

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 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...

The March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was one of the deadliest workplace catastrophes in U.S. history, claiming the lives of 146 workers, most of them women immigrants in their teens and twenties. The fire was so horrific it...

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,...

After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...

An editorial from the Japan Times and Mail denounced the the U.S. Senate's inclusion of the National Origins Act within the Immigration Act of 1924 that limited the immigration of Japanese to the United States. Read the background of the...

Scholar Lucy Salyer writes about Irish Americans who joined the Fenian Brotherhood around the time of the U.S. Civil War and the shifting ideas of allegiance, citizenship, and expatriation implicated in their story. Read the following...

Marcelino Serna came to the U.S. as a undocumented immigrant from Mexico, and within just a few years, became one of the country's bravest heroes. (Video 1:03) He joined the army at the beginning of WWI where he captured 24 German...

The American Hispanic/Latinx history is a rich, diverse and long one, with immigrants, refugees and Spanish-speaking or Indigenous people living in the United States since long before the nation was established. America's Hispanic...

A concise overview of the history of Chinese immigration to the U.S. including reference to important social and legal issues.

The Institute of American Studies at Northeast Normal University cordially invites U.S. and other international scholars to attend "Inheritance and Innovation: An International Symposium on Migration, Ethnicity and the History of...

This article focuses on South's change of heart toward undocumented immigrants from Mexico especially regarding their votes during the 1916 Presidential election of the anti-immigration Trump.