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Immigration History

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General Bibliography

Ronald Bayor, ed., The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Richard Bellamy, Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Deborah Cohen, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American life (Harper Perennial, 2002)

David A. Gerber, American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Cindy Hahamovitch, No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press, 2011)

Kelly Lytle Hernández, Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010)

Madeline Y. Hsu, Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (MA: Harvard University Press, 1998)

Kevin Kenny, Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Khalid Koser, International Migration: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Maddalena Marinari, Madeline Y. Hsu, Maria Cristina Garcia, ed., A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (University of Illinois Press, 2019)

Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004)

Kunal Parker, Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Lara Putnam, Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age  (University of North Carolina Press, 2013)

Daniel Tichenor, Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton University Press, 2002)

Jia Lynn Yang, One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 (WW Norton, 2020)

Aristide Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Eric Hinderaker and Rebecca Horn, European Emigration to the Americas, 1492 to Independence: A Hemispheric Perspective (American Historical Association, 2020)

SEE ALSO: #immigrationsyllabus http://editions.lib.umn.edu/immigrationsyllabus/

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  • Background
  • Timeline
  • Lesson Plans
    • Overview of Major Laws
    • Asian Immigration
    • Citizenship
    • Labor and Economic Priorities
    • European Immigration
    • Family and Chain Migration
    • Gender and Immigration
    • Immigration Laws and Enforcement
    • Immigration and International Relations
    • Immigration Stations
    • Migrations within the Americas
    • Refugees / Asylum
    • Standards
  • Additional Resources
  • Glossary

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