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- Immigration
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Immigration is the voluntary movement of people
from one country to live permanently in
another.
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Immigration is the act of leaving one's country to
settle in another foreign country. People find it
very hard to pull up roots in their native land and
move to a strange country. But throughout history,
countless millions of people have done so.
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- People move to another country for various
reasons. Some leave their homeland to avoid
starvation or to escape unbearable family
situations. Many move to avoid revolution and war.
Others are escaping religious or political
persecution. Some immigrants were brought to a new
land against their will, as slaves. Some immigrate
to be reunited with their loved ones. Some move in
search of adventure. Throughout history, the number
one reason has always been economic opportunity - -
the search for better land or a better job.
Recently, many professional people have emigrated
because of better opportunities elsewhere.
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- Immigration
to the U.S.A. 1860-1960
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm
- This is a comprehensive information source for
encyclopedia articles on immigration.
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- Immigration
to the United States 1876-1900 from the
Library of Congress
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/immgnts/immgrnts.html
- In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the
world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to
the U. S. Fleeing crop failure, land and job
shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to
the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of
economic opportunity.
- Related Websites at the Library of
Congress:
- 2) Chinese Immigration to the United States
1851-1900
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/chinimms/chinimms.ht
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- 3) Immigration in American Memory
- http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immig.html
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- New
Americans at PBS (Grades 7-12)
- http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/index.html
- This website is an online adventure tied to the
television mini-series that explores the immigrant
experience through the personal stories of a number
of individuals. The site includes an excellent
teacher's section.
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- U.S.
Immigration from the Internet Modern
History Sourcebook
- http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook28.html
- This is a comprehensive resource page with
links and articles related to U.S.
immigration.
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- After visiting several of the
websites, complete one or more of these
activities:
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- Complete An Immigration
WebQuest. Follow or adapt the
procedures found at one of the dozen
webQuest sites below:
- 1) American Dream: Immigration to
America by F. Rodrigues
- http://www.rede-nonio.min-edu.pt/es/sebgama/immigration/wquest.html
- 2) Ellis Island Journal Project (Grade
4) http://www.k-lschools.org/webquest/elliswq.htm
- 3) Gold Mountain: Real Gold or Fools
Gold?
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/goldmountain/
- 4) Immigrants from Germany http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/webquests/jfw/
- 5) Immigration Experience http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~cdavis01/webquests/prw/
- 6) Immigration to America by G.M.
Ellars (Grades 9-12)
- http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq10/migrate.htm
- 7) Immigration: Promise or Problem by
D. R. McCaulley
- http://www.maconaquah.k12.in.us/mms/academic/dept/socstudy/webquest/dm/default.htm
- 8) Immigration Today by S. Hovanesian
(Grades 10-12)
- http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/EDT628/shovanes/index.HTM
- 9) Immigration WebQuest
- http://www.lkstevens.wednet.edu/northlake/staff/barth/immquest.html
- 10) Immigration WebQuest http://shayes.net/english8/unit/immigration/intro.html
- 11) Pattern of Migration: A
Perspective from Jordon by Mr. Barnwell
(Grade 8)
- http://www.acsamman.edu.jo/~ms/immigration/
- 12) Port of Entry at American
Memory
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/port/start.html
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- Write An Emigrant Story.
Pretend that you are leaving your homeland
or have already relocated to your new
country. You can choose to live anywhere
in the world. Write a story explaining
what you are learning, problems that you
are encountering, and your feelings.
Imagine what it would be like.
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- Trace Your Family's Migration.
Research your own family background to
find where your family has historically
lived and how they have moved. Map the
patterns. How many different countries are
represented? Compare your family's
movement to those of your friends and
classmates.
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- Create A Immigration Timeline.
Show the history of immigration to the
country. Include information (Date,
numbers of persons) on the major waves of
emigrants.
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- Debate Immigration Issues.
Visit sites like National
Immigration Forum and Federation
for American Immigration Reform to
research opposing viewpoints on
immigration. You may want to confine your
debate to issues related to the U.S. and
Mexico. Another debate scenario; a new
student comes to school and you become
their best friend. They confide in you
that their parents are illegal aliens.
What should you do? What would you
do?
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- Write A Migration Story of the
Future. Imagine that you are living
two hundred years in the future. Write a
story about migrating to a new home.
Describe how you would travel, what things
you would take along, where you would be
going, what things might be the same as
they are today, and what will be
different.
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- Get Practical. Its Time To Go.
You and your family are moving to a new
country (You can choose wherever you
like). Plan your trip. Decide how you will
travel and estimate the distance, time
required, and cost of travel. Oh by the
way, you are limited to taking only 250
lbs. of personal possessions. Decide what
you will take; make an itemized list that
includes the weight of your items.
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- Convince Someone Else to Move.
Write a pretend letter to a relative
overseas. Tell them all the reasons that
they should move to where you live.
Alternative activity: make a poster
promoting immigration to your locale.
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- Write An Emigrant Diary. Choose
any one of the many immigration waves to
the United States; i.e., 19th century
Chinese, 20th century refugee from Vietnam
or Indochina, Latino from Mexico or
Central America - - you can pick the
homeland, the culture, and the time
period. Write a diary that describes your
journey and tells what you find in your
new country.
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- Compare and Contrast U.S. and
Canada's Immigration History. Examine
the immigration patterns in the two
neighboring countries. How were they alike
and in what ways did they differ?
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- Make An Immigration Procedures
List. What steps are needed to legally
enter and become a citizen of the United
States. Think in terms of meeting
government requirements, time frames
needed, and all possible health
considerations. Identify any bottlenecks
or problem areas. You will find lots of
help at sites like Immigration
and Naturalization Services and
Immigrant
Rights from the American Civil
Liberties Union.
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- Websites By Kids For Kids
- American
Immigration (Grades 9-12) by J. Lee and R.
Siemborski
- http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/index.html
- This comprehensive site includes identifying
the reasons for immigration, who they are,
peaks/waves, transportation methods, ports of
entry, processing, destinations,
treatment/reception, effects/impact, assimilation,
legal/illegal immigrants, and lots more.
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- Coming
to America Past and Present (2001
ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111932/
- This site provides a look at the difference
between immigrants coming to the United States in
the past and today.
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- Ellis
Island: Gateway to America (1999
ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5101/
- This website provides historical information
about the Ellis Island Immigration Station.
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- Filipino
and Chinese Immigration to Hawaii - Our
Roots
- (1998 ThinkQuest Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4137/
- This website tells of the 120,000 Filipinos who
immigrated to Hawaii between 1906- 1931.
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- From
One Life to Another - The History of European
Immigration
- (1999 ThinkQuest Project)
- http://library.advanced.org/26786/
- This website about immigration to the U.S.
during the 19th and 20th centuries focuses on
Irish, Jewish, Italian, and Swedish
immigration.
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- Immigration
Museum Online (1997 ThinkQuest Internet
Challenge)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/10493/
- Historical photos and personal stories
highlight this genealogy site. Students interviewed
people in their local communities to gain insight
into their family histories.
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- Immigration:
The Living Mosaic of People Culture, and
Hope
- (1998 ThinkQuest Internet
Challenge)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/
- The United States is a nation of immigrants,
and the entry of millions of those immigrants over
time is the story told at this web site.
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- Immigration
to the United States (1999 ThinkQuest
Junior Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5241/
- This project looks at why people immigrated to
the United States, where they came from, and what
they did once they got here.
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- Mosaic
of Immigrants to America: Foundation of a
Multicultural Society
- (1998 ThinkQuest Internet
Challenge)
- http://library.thinkquest.org/19258/
- This site is about the brave men and women who
left their home countries and took on a terrifying
journey to find freedom, liberty, and a new life in
the USA.
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- Pursuit
of Happiness: How to Become A Citizen
- http://king.portlandschools.org/Citizenship/sld001.htm
- This online slide show is intended to help
immigrants pass the INS citizenship exam.
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- Sugar
Plantation Days (1999 ThinkQuest Junior
Project)
- http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5635/
- The website is about how people of different
cultures from around the world came to work and
live with each other on a sugar plantation.
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- Lots More Immigration Websites
- American
Family Immigration History Center: Ellis
Island
- http://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp
- More than 22 million passengers and members of
ships' crews entered the U. S. through Ellis Island
and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924.
Information about each person was written down in
ships' passenger lists, known as 'manifests.' Now
you can search these millions of records for
information on individual Ellis Island
passengers.
- Other Ellis Island Websites:
- 2) Doctors at the Gate : The U.S. Public Health
Service at Ellis Island
- http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ebooks/records/7150.html
- 3) Electronic Ellis Island: A Virtual Heritage
Museum
- http://wwwald.bham.wednet.edu/museum/museum.htm
- 4) Ellis Island from the National Park Services
http://www.nps.gov/stli/serv02.htm
- 5) Ellis Island from the History Channel
- http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/main.html
- 6) Immigrant Journal http://www.libertystatepark.com/immigran.htm
- 7) Immigration, Ellis Island (Photograph
Collection, University of California)
- http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html
- 8) Immigration Web Quest by G. Hall (Grade
5)
- http://sunfive.fresno.edu/field/fieldwork/projects/elementary/104/
- 9) Interactive Tour of Ellis Island from
Scholastic
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/ellis/index.htm
- 10) Virtual Ellis Island Tour http://www.capital.net/~alta/index.html
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- Angel
Island
- http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~asam121/angel.html
- For 30 years, Angel Island served as a western
point of entry to the United States for many
immigrants. Like Ellis Island in New York, it
processed the entry of people from different parts
of the world. Unlike Ellis I island, it also served
as a prison for hundreds of Chinese
immigrants.
- Other Angel Island Websites:
- 2) Angel Island http://www.angelisland.org/
- 3) Angel Island: A Hell for Some Who Sought the
Gold Mountain
- http://www.sandiego-online.com/forums/chinese/htmls/angel.htm
- 4) Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
http://www.aiisf.org/
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- Canada
Before 1891 from The Peopling of Canada:
1891-1921, Univ. of Calgary
- http://www.alf.sd83.bc.ca/ALFWeb3.0/departments/humanities/SS10I/Reg_Geog_H
- istory/praries/Canada_before_1891.htm
- Other Sections of the Online Text:
- 2) Canada in 1891 http://www.alf.sd83.bc.ca/ALFWeb3.0/departments/humanities/SS10I/Reg_Geog_H
- istory/praries/canada_In_1891.htm
- 3) Settlement Era
- http://www.alf.sd83.bc.ca/ALFWeb3.0/departments/humanities/SS10I/Reg_Geog_H
- istory/praries/settlement_era.htm
- 4) Boom Years: 1901-191 http://www.alf.sd83.bc.ca/ALFWeb3.0/departments/humanities/SS10I/Reg_Geog_H
- istory/praries/BoomYears_1901_1913.htm
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- Canadian
Settlement Patterns (Chapt. 5, Vol. I,
Canada Heirloom Series)
- http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume1/chapter5/chapter5.htm
- This online text provides an overview of
immigration to Canada during the 1800's starting
first with information on each region of Canada
(starting on the east coast and working westwards)
and then giving summaries on various ethnic
communities.
- Related Websites:
- 2) About Canada: Multiculturalism in
Canada
- http://www.pch.gc.ca/csp-pec/english/about/multi/index.htm
- 3) Carolyn's Canadian Immigration
Information
- http://www.witchweb.net/immigration/story.html
- 4) Children of Immigrants &emdash; How Do They
Fare? by T. Brown from Economica
- http://www.economica.ca/ew22p4.htm
- 5) Frequently Asked Questions about Independent
Immigration To Canada
- http://www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/3102/faq_ind.htm
- 6) Immigrants to Canada: Emigration Information
of the Nineteenth Century
- http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html
- 7) Immigrating to Canada from Citizenship
and Immigration Canada
- http://cicnet.ci.gc.ca/english/immigr/index2.html
- 8) Pier 21 - Halifax, Canada http://pier21.ns.ca/
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- Chinese
by H. K. Norton at the Museum of the City of San
Francisco
- http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/chinhate.html
- This webpage provides a historical perspective
of anti-Chinese hatred and the California Gold
Rush.
- Related Websites:
- 2) 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~asam121/1882.html
- 3) Chinese Americans from the Angel Island
Immigration Station Foundation
- http://www.a-better.com/LK-AHSTY.HTM
- 4) Chinese Canadian Story: The Yip Sang Family
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/yipsang/
- 5) Chinese Immigration (British Columbia)
http://www.alf.sd83.bc.ca/ALFWeb3.0/departments/humanities/SS10I/Reg_Geog_H
- istory/BC/chinese_immigration_main.htm
- 6) Gold Rush: Collision of Cultures from
PBS
- http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/collision.html
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- Federation
for American Immigration Reform
- http://www.fairus.org/
- This website from the largest anti-immigration
organization presents views opposed to
immigrants.
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- Germans
in America from the Library of
Congress
- http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germany.html
- This website provides information about
immigration from the German-speaking world to the
United States, and about the activities of German
immigrants in the United States from the 17th to
the 20th centuries.
- Related Websites:
- 2) 19th Century German Immigration In
Historical Context
- http://www-lib.iupui.edu/kade/nameword/context.html
- 3) Emigration Port Hamburg
- http://www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Pressestelle/emigration/englisch/welcome.htm
- 4) German-Americans from Deutsche Welle
Radio
- http://www.dwelle.de/english/germanamericans/welcome.html
- 5) German Immigration to Texas by T. Gold
- http://www.hostville.com/hoelscher/gertex.htm
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- Here
and There, Holding On to the Homeland from
the New York Times
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/immigration/index-immigration.html
- Most immigrants base themselves more fully
here, but maintain ties so vital that their
homeland is a part of their American-born
children's identity.
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- How
the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements
of New York by J. A. Riis
- http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
- Here is the complete online version of the 1890
classic study of tenement life.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Living Conditions for Immigrants http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Sadlier/Life.html
- 3) Immigrant Neighborhoods (Photographs at
Library of Congress) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-
- bin/query/r?ammem/detr:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(+Ethnic+neighborhoods.+))
- 4) Lower East Side Tenement Museum http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/
- 5) On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life
in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century by W.
Crozier, C. Chambers, P. Costello, C. Gaffield,
& B. Stadium
- http://acad.smumn.edu/History/contents.html
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- Immigrant
and Ethnic America from Harpers
Weekly
- http://immigrants.harpweek.com/Default.htm
- This website provides a detailed look at the
often shameful treatment of various immigrant and
ethnic groups in the 19th century - - as they were
featured in the Harpers Weekly.
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- Immigration
from The Atlantic Monthly Online
- http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/immigrat/immigrat.htm
- This is the site of an articles archive on
immigration issues.
- Other Related Articles:
- 2) Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of
Immigrants? by D. M. Kennedy
- from The Atlantic Monthly Online
- http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96nov/immigrat/kennedy.htm
- 3) Few Visas Go to `Best, Brightest:' INS
Figures Debunk Businesses' Claims from the San
Francisco Chronicle
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-
- bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/03/11/MN66745.DTL
- 4) Immigration from U.S. News Online
- http://www.usnews.com/usnews/wash/immhigh.htm
- 5) Immigration: The Perpetual Controversy from
the Atlantic Monthly Online
- http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/immigr/immigint.htm
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- Immigration
and Naturalization Services
- http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/index.htm
- This government office provides information on
immigration services and benefits, legislation
updates, and news on border management.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Immigration Index (Links-site) http://www.immigrationindex.org/
- 3) Immigrant and Refugee Services of America
http://www.irsa-uscr.org/
- 4) Immigrant Rights from the American Civil
Liberties Union
- http://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrant/hmir.html
- 5) National Immigration Forum http://www.immigrationforum.org/
- 6) U.S. Citizenship Test http://www.rallye-pointe.com/Opinion/citizenship.htm
- 7) Visa Services from U.S. State
Department
- http://www.travel.state.gov/visa_services.html
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- Immigration
Stories
- http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/grace.htm
- This a collection of immigrant's stories of
persons from Mexico, Vietnam, and Laos.
- Similar Immigrant Story Sites:
- 2) Immigration: Stories of Yesterday &
Today from Scholastic
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/index.htm
- 3) Letters from An Immigrant
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/4074/starkege.htm
- 4) Refugee Transitions: Our Stories http://www.reftrans.org/stories.html
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- Immigration
to 1965 from the History
Channel
- http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=35243
- This article summarizes immigration to America
from Plymouth Rock in the seventeenth century to
Ellis Island in the twentieth.
- Related Webpages from the History
Channel:
- 2) American Response to the Holocaust
- http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=35220
- 3) Chinese Exclusion http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=18038
- 2) Chinese Exclusion Act
- http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=34894
- 3) Ethnicity http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=35087
- 3) Gentleman's Agreement
- http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=35154
- 4) Immigration http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=21642
- 3) Immigration Restriction League http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=35248
- 4) Nativism http://www.historychannel.com/perl/print_book.pl?ID=35461
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- In
English, Please! from the Swedish
Emigrant Institute
- http://www.svenskaemigrantinstitutet.g.se/sv10-7-1.html
- Transoceanic immigration brought more than 1.2
million Swedes to North America. This exodus stands
out as one of the greatest in Europe - Sweden's
intensity of emigration was only exceeded by that
of Ireland and Norway, and one out of six
Swedish-born people lived in the US in 1900.
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- International
Migration from the World Resources
Institute
- http://www.wri.org/wri/trends/migratio.html
- Here is a brief article on recent worldwide
migration trends.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Center for Immigration Studies http://www.cis.org/
- 3) History of International Migration from
Leiden University
- http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/contents.html
- 4) International Organization for Migration
http://www.iom.int/
- 5) Migration Dialogue http://migration.ucdavis.edu/
- 6) United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees http://www.unhcr.ch/
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- Irish
In America: Long Journey Home from
PBS
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/irish/index.html
- This is the companion website for the
television series chronicling the triumphant role
the Irish have played in shaping America.
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- Militarization
of the Border (Part 1) from Immigration
and Human Rights on the U.S.
- /Mexico Border (Published in In
Motion Magazine September 14, 1997)
- http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/border.html#anchor238403
- Here is a summary of an interview with Roberto
Martinez, San Diego, California. Martinez is
director of the U.S. / Mexico Border Program, an
immigration law enforcement monitoring project of
the American Friends Service Committee.
- Related Websites:
- 2) In Search of Work (Part 2) http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/border2.html
- 3) Needs of Agribusiness (Part 3) http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/border3.html
- 4) From Taking Lands to Building Triple Fences
(Part 4)
- http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/border4.html
- Another Interview Series with Maria
Jiménez, Houston, Texas, on the
- Militarization of the U.S.- Mexico
Border:
- 5) Border Communities Respond to Militarization
(Part 1) http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/mj1.html
- 6) From Slave Patrol to Border Patrol (Part 2)
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/mj2.html
- Other Related Websites:
- 7) 29 Illegal Immigrants Found Hiding in Van by
K. Klein, The Desert Sun
- http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories/local/987030909.shtml
- 8) Border Crossing Data from Bureau of
Transportation Statistics
- http://www.bts.gov/itt/cross/cross.html
- 9) Brown Power, Pyramid Style http://www.serve.com/Impacto/newtimes.html
- 10) Mario Obledo Calls for Burning of
Anti-Immigrant Sign
- http://www.serve.com/Impacto/burnsign.html
- 11) Proposition 187 by A. Alonso http://www.soyboricua.com/alonso/Academic/187.html
- 12) U.S. Border Patrol Under the Gun to Stop
Illegal Immigrants
- from CNN Interactive http://www.cnn.com/US/9603/immigration/20/index.html
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- Migration
in History
- http://www.lkwdpl.org/schools/emerson/migrate.htm
- This links-site connects to resources on the
historical movements of people.
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- National
Immigration Forum
- http://www.immigrationforum.org/index.htm
- This is the website of an organization whose
purpose is to embrace and uphold America's
tradition as a nation of immigrants.
- Not To-Be-Missed Sections:
- 2) Current Immigration Issues
- http://www.immigrationforum.org/CurrentIssues/default.htm
- 3) Immigration Facts http://www.immigrationforum.org/Facts/default.htm
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- New
Immigration (Student essay at
4essay.com)
- http://www.4essays.com/essays/IMMIGRAT.HTM
- Between 1880 and World War I, about 22
million men, women, and children entered the
United States.
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- Resources
for Teachers and Students from the
Immigration and Naturalization Service
- http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/teacher/Resources.htm#coming%
- 0D%0DINS%20History,%20Genealogy,%20and%20Education%20-
- %20%20Americ%C9%0D
- This is a comprehensive links-site that
connects to great resources on immigration.
- Other Not To-Be-Missed Websections at
INS:
- 2) Changing Immigrant Names
- http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/history/articles/NAMES.htm
-
- Short
History of U.S. Immigration Policy
from Sacks & Kolken Immigration
Lawyers
- http://www.sackskolken.com/AILA/history.html
- U.S. immigration policy has been one of great
openness, punctuated by periods of restriction.
Legal immigration has evolved today into a
highly-regulated system that allows American
families to sponsor close relatives and employers
to hire immigrants with important skills, while
permitting U.S. foreign policy to remain flexible
in accepting refugees and those seeking
asylum.
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- Websites for Teachers
- Family
History (Grades 5-12) by P. Harames
- http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst032.html
- The purpose of this assignment is to develop in
students the understanding that America is
politically, ethnically, culturally, and
economically a 'Nation of Immigrants.'
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- Home
Away From Home: Investigating Your City's
Immigration History
- (Grades 6-12) from the New York Times
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/991227monday.html
- Students will work in small groups to create
'immigration profiles' of the nationalities of
immigrants reflected in their community's or city's
population.
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- Immigrant
Experience in America (Grades 5-8)
- http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/origlessons/immigration/immigrationov.html
- Students will learn about immigration, Ellis
Island, and tenement life from 1890 to 1924. Each
student will create an identity of an immigrant and
write an essay in the first person. Essays will
describe the fictitious immigrants in terms of who
they are, where they came from, and what they found
when they arrived in New York City.
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- Immigration:
Stories of Yesterday and Today at
Scholastic (Grades 4-8)
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/immigrat/tguide.htm
- Students will learn the various reasons people
come to America through oral histories of recent
and historic immigrants. Students also discover one
of the most important aspects of American
immigration history &emdash; Ellis Island as the
preeminent immigration port of the early
1900s.
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- In
the Melting Pot: Understanding the Immigration
Process (Grades 6-12) from the New York
Times
- http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/990915wednesday.html
- In this lesson, students work in small groups,
each group examining a different aspect of the
immigration process (such as visas, work permits,
and citizenship exams) or of illegal immigration
(such as deportation), to better understand the
immigration process in the United States.
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- Introduction
to Immigration (Grades 6-12)
- http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/la/b1u1l1.html
- Students read and discuss selected library
resources about children and immigration. They
develop an understanding of the concept of
immigration and reasons why people immigrate.
- Other Lessons in the Ellis Island
Unit:
- 2) Immigration Explorations
- http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/la/b1u1l2.html
- 3) Internet Research
- http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/la/b1u1l3.html
- 4) Creative Writing/Historical Journals
- http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/la/b1u1l4.html
- 5) Final Reports
- http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/noframes/subjects/la/b1u1l5.html
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- 'They
Are Not Like Us!': Teaching about Biases Against
Immigration (Grades 9-12)
- http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v2i2/they.html
- This exercise helps students understand that
xenophobic attitudes have existed throughout United
States history and that our culture has survived
and been enriched by each new wave of
immigrants.
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- Think
Like An Immigrant
- http://www2.cybernex.net/~lakeside/Special/immigrant/immigrant.html
- Pretend you have to go live in another country.
What country would you go to and why? If you could
only take five of your possessions along. What
would you bring and why would you bring them? What
items would you leave behind and why?
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immigration
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immigrant
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refugee
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border crossing
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poverty
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civil war
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Industrial
Revolution
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port of entry
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illegal immigrant
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'melting pot'
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persecution
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hunger
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visa
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work permit
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citizenship
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ship's manifest
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deportation
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Nativism
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persecution
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emigrate
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foreigner
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migration
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birthplace
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displaced person
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INS
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native country
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famine
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'brain drain'
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economic opportunity
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homeland
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slavery
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assimilation
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custom
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culture
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language
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emigrant
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- Created by
Annette
Lamb and
Larry
Johnson,
9/01.
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