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Encyclopedia of American Immigration

Table of Contents

Abolitionist movement




Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome




Affirmative action




African Americans and immigrants




African immigrants




Afroyim v. Rusk




Alabama




Alaska




Albright, Madeleine




Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798




Alien Contract Labor Law of 1885




Alien land laws




Alvarez, Julia




Amerasian children




Amerasian Homecoming Act of 1987




American Colonization Society




American Jewish Committee




American Protective Association




Americanization programs




Angel Island Immigration Station




Angell Treaty of 1880




Anglo-conformity




Anti-Catholicism




Anti-Chinese movement




Anti-Defamation League




Anti-Filipino violence




Anti-Japanese movement




Antin, Mary




Anti-Semitism




Arab immigrants




Argentine immigrants




Arizona




Arkansas




Art




Asakura v. City of Seattle




Asian American Legal Defense Fund




Asian American literature




Asian immigrants




Asian Indian immigrants




Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance




Asiatic Barred Zone




Asiatic Exclusion League




Assimilation theories




Association of Indians in America




Astor, John Jacob




Atlas, Charles




Au pairs




Australian and New Zealander immigrants




Austrian immigrants




Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001




Bayard-Zhang Treaty of 1888




Belgian immigrants




Bell, Alexander Graham




Bellingham incident




Berlin, Irving




Bernal v. Fainter




Bilingual education




Bilingual Education Act of 1968




Birth control movement




Border fence




Border Patrol, U.S.




Born in East L.A.




Boston




Boutilier v. Immigration and Naturalization Service




Bracero program




“Brain drain”




Brazilian immigrants




Brin, Sergey




British immigrants




Bureau of Immigration, U.S.




Burlingame Treaty of 1868




Burmese immigrants




Cable Act of 1922




California




California gold rush




Cambodian immigrants




Canada vs. United States as immigrant destinations




Canadian immigrants




Canals




Capitation taxes




Captive Thai workers




Catholic Charities USA




Censuses, U.S.




Center for Immigration Studies




Chae Chan Ping v. United States




Chain migration




Chang Chan v. Nagle




Cheung Sum Shee v. Nagle




Chew Heong v. United States




Chicago




Chicano movement




Child immigrants




Chin Bak Kan v. United States




Chinatowns




Chinese American Citizens Alliance




Chinese American press




Chinese boycott of 1905




Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882




Chinese Exclusion Cases




Chinese family associations




Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance




Chinese immigrants




Chinese laundries




Chinese secret societies




Chinese Six Companies




Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992




Chy Lung v. Freeman




Citizens Committee to Repeal Chinese Exclusion




Citizenship




Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S.




Civil Rights movement




Civil War, U.S.




Claiborne, Liz




Clotilde slave ship




Coal industry




Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles




Coast Guard, U.S.




Colombian immigrants




Colorado




Commission on Civil Rights, U.S.




Commission on Immigration Reform, U.S.




Congress, U.S.




Connecticut




Constitution, U.S.




Contract labor system




Coolies




Credit-ticket system




Crime




Criminal immigrants




Cuban immigrants




Cultural pluralism




Czech and Slovakian immigrants




Dada v. Mukasey




Dallas




Danticat, Edwidge




Davis, James John




Delaware




Deportation




Dillingham Commission




Disaster recovery work




Displaced Persons Act of 1948




Dominican immigrants




Drug trafficking




Dual citizenship




Dutch immigrants




Economic consequences of immigration




Economic opportunities




Ecuadorian immigrants




Education




Einstein, Albert




El Paso incident




El Rescate




Ellis Island




Emigration




Employment




Empresario land grants in Texas




English as a second language




English-only and official English movements




Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918




Ethiopian immigrants




Ethnic enclaves




Eugenics movement




European immigrants




European revolutions of 1848




Exeter incident




Families




Family businesses




Farm and migrant workers




Federation for American Immigration Reform




Fedorenko v. United States




Fenian movement




Fiancées Act of 1946




Filipino American press




Filipino immigrants




Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935




Films




Flanagan, Edward J.




Florida




Florida illegal immigration suit




Foley v. Connelie




Fong Yue Ting v. United States




Foodways




Foreign exchange students




Foreign miner taxes




Former Soviet Union immigrants




Frankfurter, Felix




Freedom Airlift




French immigrants




Galvan v. Press




Garment industry




Garvey, Marcus




Gay and lesbian immigrants




Geary Act of 1892




Gentlemen’s Agreement




Georgia




German American press




German immigrants




Globalization




Godfather trilogy




Golden Venture grounding




Goldman, Emma




Gompers, Samuel




González case




Gospel Society




Graham v. Richardson




Great Depression




Great Irish Famine




Greek immigrants




Green Card




Green cards




Gresham-Yang Treaty of 1894




Grove, Andrew




Guatemalan immigrants




Guest-worker programs




Guggenheim, Meyer




Haitian boat people




Haitian immigrants




Hamburg-Amerika Line




Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong




Hansen effect




Hawaii




Hayakawa, S. I.




Head Money Cases




Health care




Helsinki Watch




Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York




Higher education




History of immigration, 1620-1783




History of immigration, 1783-1891




History of immigration after 1891




Hmong immigrants




Holocaust




Homeland Security, Department of




Homestead Act of 1862




Honduran immigrants




Hong Kong immigrants




Houston




Huffington, Arianna




Hull-House




Hungarian immigrants




I Remember Mama




Idaho




Identificational assimilation




Illegal immigration




Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996




Illinois




Imingaisha




“Immigrant”




The Immigrant




Immigrant advantage




Immigrant aid organizations




Immigration Act of 1882




Immigration Act of 1891




Immigration Act of 1903




Immigration Act of 1907




Immigration Act of 1917




Immigration Act of 1921




Immigration Act of 1924




Immigration Act of 1943




Immigration Act of 1990




Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952




Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965




Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S.




Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha




Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Lopez-Mendoza




Immigration and Naturalization Service v. St. Cyr




Immigration Convention of 1886




Immigration law




Immigration lawyers




Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986




Immigration waves




In re Tiburcio Parrott




Indentured servitude




Indiana




Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975




Indonesian immigrants




Industrial Revolution




Industrial Workers of the World




Infectious diseases




Intelligence testing




Intermarriage




International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union




Iowa




Iranian immigrants




Irish immigrants




Iron and steel industry




Israeli immigrants




Issei




Italian American press




Italian immigrants




Japanese American Citizens League




Japanese American internment




Japanese American press




Japanese immigrants




Japanese Peruvians




Jennings, Peter




Jewish immigrants




Jordan v. Tashiro




The Jungle




Kansas




Kentucky




Kissinger, Henry




Know-Nothing Party




Korean immigrants




Korean War




Ku Klux Klan




Labor unions




Lahiri, Jhumpa




Land laws




Language issues




Laotian immigrants




Latin American immigrants




Latinos and immigrants




Lau v. Nichols




Lem Moon Sing v. United States




Lennon, John




Liberia




Lim, Shirley Geok-lin




Linguistic contributions




Literacy tests




Literature




Little Havana




Little Italies




Little Tokyos




Los Angeles




Louisiana




Loyalty oaths




Luce-Celler Bill of 1946




McCarran Internal Security Act of 1950




McCreary Amendment of 1893




Machine politics




Mail-order brides




Maine




Malaysian immigrants




Mariel boatlift




Marriage




“Marriages of convenience”




Maryland




Massachusetts




Melting pot theory




Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund




Mexican deportations of 1931




Mexican immigrants




Mexican Revolution




Miami




Michigan




“Middleman” minorities




Migrant superordination




Military conscription




Minnesota




Missionaries




Mississippi




Mississippi River




Missouri




“Model minorities”




Molly Maguires




“Mongrelization”




Montana




“Moral turpitude”




Mormon immigrants




Motel industry




Muir, John




Mukherjee, Bharati




Multiculturalism




Music




Muslim immigrants




My Ántonia




Name changing




A Nation of Immigrants




National Road




Native Americans




Native Sons of the Golden State




Nativism




Natural disasters as push-pull factors




Naturalization




Naturalization Act of 1790




Nebraska




Nevada




New Hampshire




New Harmony




New Jersey




New Mexico




New York City




New York State




New York v. Miln




Nguyen v. Immigration and Naturalization Service




Nicaraguan immigrants




9/11 and U.S. immigration policy




Nishimura Ekiu v. United States




North American Free Trade Agreement




North Carolina




North Dakota




Ohio




Oklahoma




Operation Wetback




Orderly Departure Program




Oregon




Oyama v. California




Ozawa v. United States




Pacific Islander immigrants




Pacific Mail Steamship Company




Page Law of 1875




Pakistani immigrants




Paper sons




Parachute children




Passenger Cases




Passports




Patriot Act of 2001




Pei, I. M.




Pennsylvania




Permanent resident status




Philadelphia




Philadelphia anti-Irish riots




Picture brides




Pilgrim and Puritan immigrants




Pinkerton, Allan




Plyler v. Doe




Polish immigrants




Political parties




Ponzi, Charles




Portuguese immigrants




Powderly, Terence V.




Presidential elections




Prisoners of war in the United States




Progressivism




Proposition 187




Puerto Rican immigrants




Pulitzer, Joseph




Push-pull factors




Quota systems




Railroads




Rapp, George




Red Scare




Refugee fatigue




Refugee Relief Act of 1953




Refugees




Released Re-education Detainee Program




Religion as a push-pull factor




Religions of immigrants




Remittances of earnings




Reno v. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee




Resident aliens




Return migration




Rhode Island




Rickover, Hyman G.




Rockne, Knute




Russian and Soviet immigrants




Sacco and Vanzetti trial




Sale v. Haitian Centers Council




Salvadoran immigrants




San Francisco




Sanctuary movement




Santiago, Esmeralda




Scandinavian immigrants




Schurz, Carl




Schwarzenegger, Arnold




Science




Sei Fujii v. State of California




Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy




Settlement houses




Settlement patterns




Sidhwa, Bapsi




Simon, Julian Lincoln




Slave trade




Smuggling of immigrants




Snake River Massacre




Soccer




Social networks




Sociedad Progresista Mexicana




South African immigrants




South Carolina




South Dakota




Spanish immigrants




Spanish-language press




Sports




Statue of Liberty




Stereotyping




Strauss, Levi




Supreme Court, U.S.




Sweatshops




Swiss immigrants




Taiwanese immigrants




Tammany Hall




Telemundo




Television and radio




Tennessee




Terrace v. Thompson




Tesla, Nikola




Texas




Texas Cart War




Thai immigrants




Tocqueville, Alexis de




Transit aliens




Transportation of immigrants




Triangle Shirtwaist fire




Truax v. Raich




Turkish immigrants




“Undesirable aliens”




United Farm Workers




United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind




United States v. Ju Toy




United States v. Wong Kim Ark




Universal Negro Improvement Association




Univision




Utah




Vermont




Vietnam War




Vietnamese immigrants




Virginia




War brides




War Brides Act of 1945




Washington, D.C.




Washington State




Welfare and social services




West Indian immigrants




West Virginia




Westward expansion




Wisconsin




Women immigrants




Women’s movements




Wong Wing v. United States




World migration patterns




World War I




World War II




Wyoming




Xenophobia




Yang, Jerry




“Yellow peril” campaign




Yezierska, Anzia




Yick Wo v. Hopkins




Yugoslav state immigrants




Zadvydas v. Davis