Presents the issues and events of immigration to America from 1600 through the early twenty-first century, covering the first immigration-regulating laws of the 1790s through the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and discussing how laws have shaped public opinion about national security and illegal immigration.
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Danes, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Discusses patterns of immigration into the United States and the ethical, political, and economic issues related to American immigration laws and policies.
An overview of immigration from Haiti to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, discussing conditions leading to emigration, cultural adjustments and problems facing immigrants, and more.
In 1857, after her uncle evicts thirteen-year-old Tess and her father from their Scotland home and they are forced to immigrate to Vancouver Island, Canada, she forms her own opinions about social and class differences.
Examines the debate over immigration, discussing arguments for and against immigration, and encouraging students to utilize critical thinking skills to create informed opinions on the issue.
Presents approximately 150 primary source documents, such as speeches, legislation, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews, related to immigration and multiculturalism between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Explores the origins of immigration to America, focusing on the reasons why people chose to come to the new land; examines the history of Ellis Island, the site of the largest wave of human migration between 1892 and 1954; and discusses restrictions on immigration to the U.S.
