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WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS IN THE NEW LAND AND HOW DO THESE SHAPE THE EXPERIENCE OF MIGRATION?
- How might the environment in the new land help or hinder newcomers’ inclusion?
- How do newcomers come to understand the new land and their place in it over time?
- How might newcomers and the receiving community balance their identities, cultural values, and world views as they interact with one another?
PBS’s Chinese Exclusion Act (chapter 1)
Classroom Resource: The 1924 Immigration Act
Teaching Idea: Integration and The Bintel Brief
Arab American Immigration: A Timeline
Unseen: The Art of Charles Kay
Hidden Histories: Arab Americans
We Are Here: Undocumented Americans Past and Present
Understanding Migration: A Gallery Walk
Measuring Belongingness
Rejecting Assimilation
1917 Silent March Against Lynching
Ma Rainey and The Great Migration
Red Summer: Migration and the 1919 Race Riots
Connections to Counter Anti-Immigrant Bullying
PBS Asian Americans Film and Lessons
Stereotypes and the Pressure to Assimilate
Can Moving Make You Free?: Thornton and Lucie Blackburn
Teaching Lewis Hine’s Ellis Island Images
What is life like for someone with Temporary Protected Status?
The Immigration Restriction League: Immigrants Desired and Not Desired
The “Good” and “Bad” Immigrant
The Immigration Restriction League: Immigrants Desired and Not Desired
What is life like for someone with Temporary Protected Status?
The Unwritten Letter from my Immigrant Parent
Change Makers-Luma Mufleh
Caste: Structuring Our Response to Difference
Armenian Genocide Refugees Come to Ellis Island
Latinx Communities and the Coronavirus
Undocumented and COVID Positive
Union Fliers Calling for Anti-Chinese & Anti-Japanese Boycotts, 1898
Lee Chew : A Chinese Immigrant’s Life, 1902
Mary Tape Protests School Segregation in 1885
Webinar: Perspectives on Anti-Immigrant Prejudice for Educators
Primary Source: German Americans Sing of Home
Primary Source: The Babel Proclamation
Scholar Spotlight: Erika Lee on Immigration and Xenophobia in US History
Primary Sources: The Know Nothings
Primary Source : Chinese Exclusion is Anti-American
Primary Source: Language and the Promised Land
Teaching Idea: An Anti-Chinese Statue for the Harbor
Benjamin Franklin and German immigrants in Colonial America
Resources on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911
Classroom Resource Collection: The El Paso Shooting and Anti-immigrant Hate
Video: Italian Americans – Assimiliation
Educator Spotlight: Asian American Literature at the Smithsonian
Article: The doner kebab, an unlikely symbol of European identity
Resource Collection: World Refugee Day & Beyond
PBS Latino Americans: Peril and Promise
PBS Latino Americans: Prejudice and Pride
PBS Latino Americans: The New Latinos
Teaching Braceros in the Corn Belt
Braceros in the Corn Belt: Primary Sources
Braceros in the Corn Belt Part Two: “Ambassadors of Goodwill”
Braceros in the Corn Belt: Part One, A Labor Shortage?
“Home Government Bars Indiana to Mexican Workers,” Indianapolis Recorder, February 23, 1946
“Plain Talk: What About U.S. Workers?” Evansville Argus, April 2, 1943
“Islanders Ease Labor Shortage,” (Greencastle) Daily Banner, July 24, 1943
“Jobs in California,” Greencastle Daily Banner, October 12, 1942
“Defense Program Is Serious Handicap for Food Producers,” Muncie Post-Democrat, June 6, 1941,
Associated Negro Press, No Labor Shortage, March 28, 1942
Resources on the Braceros and the Bracero Program
Rule of Naturalization 1790 Congressional Debate
Language and Identity in France
Exploring Code-Switching in the Classroom
Classroom Resource – Beyond Bao: Exploring the Disney Short
Robert Smith writing from Philadelphia to his parents in Moycraig, County Antrim. August 14, 1844.
Come to the Golden Land: Jewish Immigration Images
Immigration and Birthright Citizenship
Birds of Passage: The Italian Americans
Between Two Worlds: The Italian American Immigrant Youth
Up From the Ashes: The Italian Americans
Backstory Radio: Americans and Assimilation
Excerpt from the play “The Melting Pot”
FDR on the Statue of Liberty’s 50th Anniversary
The role of immigrants in reviving a city
Educator Spotlight: Telling Stories with Sheetal Sheth
The Bintel Brief: Letters from Jewish Life on New York’s Lower East Side
Chinese Food on a Jewish Christmas
Classroom Resource – Immigrants & the World Cup: Trevor Noah and the French Ambassador
What is in an Accent?
Classroom Resource: Immigration in a Small Town
Immigrants and Ice Hockey Classroom Resource
The California Folk Music Project
Immigration and Identity: Jewish Immigrants Letters from the Bintel Brief
Film Study Guide: I Learn America
Responding to Diversity
Italian Americans: Assilimilation
Census 2020 Changes and Citizenship Status
Driven Out: The Chinese in the West
The Erasure of German Culture: An NPR Podcast
Making Hispanics
Is the United States a ‘Nation Of Immigrants’?
The Mother-Tongue: Bilingual Education Then and Now
Classroom Resource: Welcoming Refugees in Europe
Ensuring Equity for ELL Students
What are the Predominant Stereotypes about Immigrants Today?
Exploring Anti-Immigrant Prejudice and Stereotypes
Scholar Spotlight: What Everyone Should Know about the Integration of Immigrants in the U.S.
Jewish Immigration and the Bintel Brief
Selections from the Bintel Brief
WHAT ARE THE PUBLIC STORIES OF MIGRATION AND HOW DO THEY INFLUENCE PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVES AND BEHAVIORS?
- What messages about migration are people hearing through media and thought leaders?
- How can we assess whether available public stories about migration are reliable and representative?
- How do stories of migration influence how people think and (re)act?
Analyzing Anti-Immigrant Attitudes in Political Cartoons
Theodore Roosevelt and Hyphenated Americans
Arab Indianapolis
Frederick Douglass and Chinese Immigration
Unseen: The Art of Charles Kay
Black History Month: Remembering Black Immigrants
Anti-Semitic Cartoon from 1909
Red Summer: Migration and the 1919 Race Riots
Demographic Change, Politics, and Prejudice
Teaching Lewis Hine’s Ellis Island Images
Native Imagery to Claim “Native” Status
The Immigration Restriction League: Immigrants Desired and Not Desired
Native Imagery to Claim “Native” Status
Teaching Anything for Selena
A Nation of Immigrants and Xenophobia
Asian Americans and the Model Minority Stereotype
Primary Source: Ku Klux Klan Voter Information Sheet
Primary Source: We are Loyal Klansman
Secondary Source: Notre Dame Versus the Ku Klux Klan
Teaching 100% American: The KKK and Immigration
Other: A Brief History of American Xenophobia
Art, Freedom, and Justice: Bryan Stevenson on the Great Migration
Union Fliers Calling for Anti-Chinese & Anti-Japanese Boycotts, 1898
Unguarded Gates: Poetry Against Immigration
Primary Sources: Watch Your Speech During World War I
Primary Source: The Babel Proclamation
Cheryl Hamilton: Telling Immigrant Stories
Expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans During the Great Depression
Scholar Spotlight: Erika Lee on Immigration and Xenophobia in US History
Immigration Since 1965
Trying to Justify Chinese Exclusion
Teaching Idea: An Anti-Chinese Statue for the Harbor
Understanding Migration: A Basic Glossary
The Emma Lazarus Project
A Monument to Migration: Resources and Teaching Ideas
Re-imagining the experience of migration through graphic novels
Blog: Immigration and the Concentration Camp Debate
100 Percent American: The Indiana Klan and Immigration in the 1920s
Historical Context: The Ku Klux Klan Influence on Immigration Policy in the 1920s
Primary Source: KKK Spreads Fear about Immigration
Primary Source: Political Cartoon, “Whose U.S. Is This Anyway?”
Primary Source: Ford Advertisement, Fiery Cross, 1923
Primary Source: 100 Percent American Advertisements, Fiery Cross
Primary Source: Political Cartoon, “Europe Take Notice,” Fiery Cross
Primary Source: Photo from the Fiery Cross
Primary Source: Women’s Klan Loyalty Pledge
Primary Source: Klan Pamphlet, “Americans, Take Heed!”
Primary Source: The Kloran
Resource Collection: World Refugee Day & Beyond
Classroom Resource: Empathy Through Photography
Educator Spotlight: The Role of News Literacy in Issues of Migration
President Johnson and the 1965 Immigration Action
Rudolph Valentino: The Italian Americans
What Kind of Asian are You?
Classroom Resource: Refugees, Media, and Migration
Countering Prejudice: A Photo Essay about Migrants in Italy
Telling Stories: the Children of African Immigrants
American Anti-Catholicism in the 1920s
Japanese-American Soldiers in World War II
Myths and Misinformation: What Do People Think About Immigrants?
Classroom Resource: Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant
Classroom Resource: Television News and Opinions on Immigration
Indian-Americans in Media
What did I just hear?: 5 Resources for Exploring Anti-Immigrant Prejudice
Walling Off or Welcoming In: From Justice in Schools
The Anti-German Sentiment of World War I
Anti-German Sentiment in the United States
Understanding Dr. Seuss’ Depictions of the ‘Other’ in his Political Cartoons
The Language of Immigration and Politics
Educator Spotlight: Talking Literature with Samira Ahmed
Classroom Resource: Annie Moore and the Life of the First Ellis Island Immigrant
A Conversation with Asian-Americans on Race
U.S. Immigration Statistics Over Time
A Conversation With Latinos on Race
HOW DO LOCAL NARRATIVES OF MIGRATION RELATE TO GLOBAL PATTERNS?
- In what ways do particular cases reflect the bigger picture of human migration over time and around the globe?
- What can we learn from other narratives about migration to help us to inform our perspective?
- What are the universal and unique qualities of successful integration?