Immigration/Migration
This guide provides information and links to tools and resources that will help you with your research on immigration-migration related topics.
- Ancestry Library This link opens in a new windowFull-text primary sources (including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records) from the United States and United Kingdom. Coverage: 1300 - present.
- FamilySearch FamilySearch is the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world. Their team of experts strives to create and link the best and most valuable research resources to help people discover who they are by exploring where they come from. For over 100 years, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide.
- CubaGenWeb Provides an extensive list of other websites that may be of use for Hispanic genealogy research. Even though it appears on a site about Cuban genealogy, the list is not exclusive to Cuban heritage.
- ArchiveGridAn index to historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. This database contains nearly 1 million records (largely summary descriptions) of archival and manuscript collections plus more than 50,000 finding aids (detailed lists describing the content of collections) from over from 190 contributors. Also includes RLG's AMC (Archival and Mixed Collections) file. ArchiveGrid also helps researchers contact archives to request information, arrange a visit, and order copies. It also includes collection descriptions from WorldCat bibliographic records and from finding aids harvested from ArchiveGrid contributors' websites. To try the new beta version of ArchiveGrid.
- Family Search - African American Online Genealogy Records These are genealogy links to African American online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.
- Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society AAHGS was founded in 1977 in Washington, DC by a small group of historians and genealogists, who felt a need to share resources and methodology for pursuing historical and genealogical research. For more than 43 years, our members have worked together to trace the historical ties that bind us one to another, mold the present, and shape the future.
- Explore Census Data This link opens in a new windowData covering the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas. Includes, population, economic, housing, and geographic information. Coverage: 2000 - present.
- Social Explorer This link opens in a new windowDigitized maps and census data related to demographic information in the U.S. Coverage: 1790 - 2000. Limited to three simultaneous users.
- Census BureauGovernment agency that produces the United States' demographic data.
- SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new windowA mapping, analytics, and data visualization application with 200,000+ data variables, including demographic census data, 23 million+ businesses, and survey marketing & health data. To access, first create a personal workspace or log-in as a guest.
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowFull-text newspapers, magazines, web-only content from U.S. and international news sources. Coverage: 1978 - present.
- Latin American Newspapers - World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowFull-text content from Latin American newspapers. Coverage: 1805 - 1922.
- New York Times with Index (1851-2016) This link opens in a new windowFull-text archive of The New York Times. Coverage: 1851 - 2018.
- Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowFull-text news articles covering business, economics, and finances. Coverage: 1984 - present. Users must register to access resource. Every 180 days users must refresh (or click through the Libraries’ link again). Please register here: WSJ.com/LUC before attempting to access this resource.
Library Resources
Encyclopedia of American Immigration by Call Number: Lewis Library Reference JV6465 .E53 2010ISBN: 9781587655999Publication Date: 2010-03-12
Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West by
Immigration from foreign countries was a small part of the peopling of the American West but an important aspect in building western infrastructure, cities, and neighborhoods. The Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West provides much more than ethnic groups crossing the plains, landing at ports, or crossing borders; this two-volume work makes the history of the American West an important part of the American experience. Through sweeping entries, focused biographies, community histories, economic enterprise analysis, and demographic studies, this Encyclopedia presents the tapestry of the West and its population during various periods of migration. The two volumes examine the settling of the West and include coverage of movements of American Indians, African Americans, and the often-forgotten role of women in the West's development.
Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 9781412905503Publication Date: 2006-02-24
Encyclopedia of American Immigration by Call Number: Lewis Library Main Stack JV6465 .E53 2001ISBN: 0765680289Publication Date: 2001-02-28
The Making of Modern Immigration by
Combining the insight of two-dozen expert contributors to examine key figures, events, and policies over 200 years of U.S. immigration history, this work illuminates the foundations of the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of our nation.
Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 9780313392030Publication Date: 2012-02-01
The Gringo Champion by Call Number: Cudahy Library Main Stacks PQ7298.434.I46 C3613 2017ISBN: 9781609453657Publication Date: 2017-01-17
The Book of Unknown Americans by Call Number: Lewis Library Main Stacks PS3608.E565 B66 2015ISBN: 9780345806406Publication Date: 2015-03-03
Behold the Dreamers by Call Number: Cudahy Library Main Stacks PS3613.B84 L66 2016ISBN: 9780812998481Publication Date: 2016-08-23
Sour Heart by Call Number: Cudahy Library Main Stacks PS3626.H36 A6 2017ISBN: 9780399589386Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Beyond the Narrow Gate by Call Number: Library Storage Facility Stacks E184.C5 C445 1999ISBN: 0525942572Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Across a Hundred Mountains by Call Number: Lewis Library Main Stacks PS3607.R3627 A63 2007ISBN: 9780743269582Publication Date: 2007-05-15
The Refugees by Call Number: Lewis Library Popular Reading Collection PS3614.G97 A6 2017ISBN: 9780802126399Publication Date: 2017-02-07
Of Women and Salt by Call Number: PS3607.A721833 O38 2021ISBN: 9781250776686Publication Date: 2021-03-30A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE.
In the Shadows: Undocumented Immigration in America by
Esta película, un moderno "Grapes of Wrath", sigue a Jairo y su extensa familia de inmigrantes indocumentados desde su hogar en México hasta una granja lechera en los EE.UU. En busca de una vida mejor y un medio para enviar dinero a sus familias en dificultades. En el camino, se encuentran con peligrosas condiciones de cruce de fronteras y un encuentro con las autoridades de inmigración. Esta película explora por qué la inmigración sigue siendo un problema permanente para nuestro país.
Publication Date: 2013
Protect, Serve, and Deport by
Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.
Call Number: Online AccessISBN: 9780520296305Publication Date: 2017-06-26
A Cost-Benefit Framework for Analyzing the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of State-Level Immigration Policies by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2016
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