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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration History: Remittances & Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource uses maps, a video and texts to provide an understanding of the financial flows of migrant remittances, money sent home by migrants. Its goal is to encourage students to think critically about the multiple impacts of...
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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration: Refugees in Contemporary Global Migration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The following sources include a news report in 2007 on Iraqi refugees in Sweden and interviews in 1998 of Hmong refugees living in Minnesota. Its goal is to explore the refugee experience, both from an international or geopolitical...
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Unit Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration: Racial Encounters in Colonial America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Copper plate engravings offer one example of the racialization of colonized peoples. At the turn of the 17th century, most Europeans' visual conceptions of the Americas came from the engravings of the workshop of Flemish print-maker...
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Activity
ArgentinaXplora.com

Argentinaexplora.com: Las Corrientes Inmigratorias en Argentina

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; this page discusses the various waves of foreign immigration that Argentina has experienced.
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Article
USA Today

Usa Today: Towns Take Aim at Illegal Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines the battle over illegal immigration.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Genevieve Carpio, "Teaching #Immigration Syllabus"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on a series of #syllabi designed to provide a historical and theoretical context for critical social issues. This article addresses #ImmigrationSyllabus written in January of 2017. It provides a foundation for...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Jeff Turner, "Mormonism, 'Asiatic' Polygamy, and Immigration Regulation"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on immigration bans in American history including Teddy Roosevelt's ban on "anybody who believed in polygamy, promoted polygamy, or lived in a country that practiced polygamy." It discusses the Mormons and the Chinese.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Carly Goodman, "Debating Diversity: The Diversity Visa Lottery"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the history of the Irish immigrants in the 80s and 90s who fought for ways to enter the US legally, the diversity in America, and the impact of the election of President Trump.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Ellen Engseth, "Resources for You at the Ihrc Archives"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers to share IEHS's extensive immigration resources with educators and explains how to get access them. It also invites scholars to consider applying for their signature Grant-in-Aid Awards, offered annually, for support...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Gamze Kati Gumus, "Disposable: Immigrant Bodies in Contemporary Politics"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the fate of immigrants and refugees during a time of political efforts to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the US. It focuses on the drowning of the Kurdi brothers.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Torrie Hester "Repatriation Agreements of the U. S., Mexico, and Canada"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on repatriation agreements, which streamline immigrant removals after a person has been ordered from a country. Without these agreements, officials deporting an immigrant must secure approval through individual...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Philip D. Erenrich, "Bring in the Gypsies: A Case Study in Race and u.s."

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on an article in July 1909 New York City newspapers reporting the immigration and immediate deportation of a family consisting of 24 Gypsies.
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Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 12 15

For Students 11th - 12th
Syllabus: Week 12: Undocumented Immigrants/Immigrant Rights. Syllabus: Week 13: Border Walls and Border Policing. Syllabus: Week 14: Post 9/11 America, and Syllabus: Week 15: Deportation Nation.
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Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Univerisity of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 9 11

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Syllabus: Week 9: The 1965 Hart-Celler Act and the Remaking of Immigrant America. Syllabus: Week 10: Refugee and Asylum Policy, and Syllabus Week 11: How Globalization Produces Migration: Immigration Law, Economic Policy, and Global...
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Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Univerisity of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 3 6

For Students 11th - 12th
Syllabus for Week 3: Global Migrations, 1830-1930 Syllabus: Week 4: Historical Origins of Contemporary Nativism and Xenophobia. Syllabus: Week 5: Mass Migration and the Rise of Federal Immigration Law, and Week 6: The Closed Gate...
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Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 1 2

For Students 11th - 12th
Week 1: Why study immigration? What does the study of immigration reveal about U.S. history and which stories we tell about ourselves as a people? Week 2: Settlers, Servants, and Slaves in British, French, and Spanish Colonial America:...
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Website
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Journal of American Ethnic History

For Students 9th - 10th
The Journal of American Ethnic History, the official journal of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, is published quarterly and focuses on the immigrant and ethnic/racial history of the North American people. Subscription required.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Iehs Newsletter

For Students 9th - 10th
The Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter is published twice yearly. The Newsletter contains articles of historiographical and pedagogical interest about the field of immigration and ethnic history.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Madeline Y. Hsu, "The Myth of the Line"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the 1965 Immigration Act which opened American doors to people from all parts of the globe, regardless of skin color, but by focusing on re-uniting families, it discriminates some groups.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Lacroix, the Transplantation of French Canada: A Challenge to Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the migration of French Canadians into the New England area and the impact on the area and the Roman Catholic Church. By the Great Depression, nearly a million Canadians of French descent had settled in the United...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Goodman, Writing u.s. Immigration History on the Other Side of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is written by a doctoral student of American foreign relations and immigration policy who doing research in Cameroon, Africa. In 1990, just 3000 Cameroonian immigrants resided in the United States. Today the number has...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Elizabeth Venditto, "Immigrant Stories: Ways of Preserving and Teaching"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article focuses teaching student to create digital immigrant stories. Immigrant Stories teaches participants to create digital stories about their personal or family immigration experiences. Digital stories are brief (3-5 minute)...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Marc Sanko, "The Worlds of the Immigration Historian"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the role of an immigration historian. The future of immigration history is a blending of the immigration story with the wider historical world: an immigration historian, a labor historian, and a diplomatic historian.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Madeline Hsu, "The Good Immigrants"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on immigration history as shown in the book "The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority" (Princeton University Press, 2015 by Madeline Hsu. It intervenes in immigration history by tracking...