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Immigration: Books

Reference Sources

Overviews

American Immigration: a very short introduction./ Gerber. 2011
An Immigrant nation : United States regulation of immigration, 1798-1991. U.S. Dept. of Justice, Immigration & Naturalization Service, 1991.

Historical Studies

And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society: 1920 to the 1990s./ Barkan. 1996. ./
Assimilation in American Life: the role of race, religion, and national origins./ Gordon. 1969
Library also has a physical copy.
From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration./ Foner. 2000.
How the Other Half Lives./Riis. 1957
Shattering work of photojournalism that brought to light the squalor some faced when arriving in this country
Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the United States./ Hourwich. 1912
Immigration Reconsidered: history, sociology, and politics./ Yans-McLaughlin. 1990.
Mass Migration under Sail: European Immigration to the Antebellum United States./ Cohn, 2009
A Nation of Immigrants./ Kennedy. 1964
Strangers in the Land: patterns of American nativism, 1860-1925./ Higham. 1988
The Transplanted" a history of immigrants in urban America./ Bodnar. 1985
We Who Built America./Wittke. 1967

Studies of Specific Groups