Research Guides: Immigration & Literature: Websites

Resources about Immigration for various groups

These website resources may focus on both Asian and Latinx populations or on immigration in general during the time period in which the stories you are set.

Immigration Timeline from Ellis Island
The Hamilton Project Launched in 2006 as an economic policy initiative at the Brookings Institution, The Hamilton Project is guided by an Advisory Council of academics, business leaders, and former public policy makers. The Project provides a platform for a broad range of leading economic thinkers to inject innovative and pragmatic policy options into the national debate. The Project offers proposals rooted in evidence and experience, not doctrine and ideology, and brings those ideas to bear on policy debates in relevant and effective ways.
How Magazines Helped Shape Asian American and Hispanic Identity in the U.S. The Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. Located in New York City, it is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community. The foundation also publishes, under its own imprint, the books and a journal that derive from the work of its grantees and visiting scholars.

Chinese Immigration

These resources will give you an overview of 20th century Chinese immigration experiences.

Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States
From the National Archives
History of San Francisco’s Chinatown
from History Channel
Chinese Immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Acts
From the Office of the Historian
Video: Chinese Immigration in the U.S. in the 19th Century
C-Span item by Dr. Mae Ngai.
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America
Project at Stanford University to document the experiences of Chinese Railroad Workers. Includes timeline and links to primary sources.

Hispanic/Latinx Immigration

These resources focus on Hispanic/Latinx contemporary immigration experiences.

Hispanic Heritage Month 2018
Data and information from the U.S. Census
Immigration
Pew Research Center data on Hispanic Trends with regards to immigration.
American Latino Theme Study: Struggles for Inclusion
from the National Park Service
The Hispanic Experience
from the Pew Research Center on Journalism and Media