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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Grainne Mc Evoy, "Child Refugees: Our Present Informing Our Past"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on issues both historical and current concerning the immigration of large numbers of unaccompanied minors and the problems it creates.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Megan Asaka, "Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and Seattle"

For Students 9th - 10th
Megan Asaka's current book, "Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle's Urban Landscape," explores the role of mobile populations in shaping urban regions through a case study of late nineteenth and early...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Katherine S. Carper, "Difficulty of Studying "Immigrants" in Early 19th C"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the study of immigrants in the early 19th century before the Civil War. Migration policy was primarily under state rather than federal control, and as long as slavery existed, there was no national definition of...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: In 2017 Iehs Scholars Made History

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on IEHS Scholars and their contribution to making it easier for historians to study immigration. Since June 2017, a new venue for historians is the Washington Post's "Made by History" section. The article provides...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Stacy Fahrenthold, "Resources for Migration and Refugee Histories of Me"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the author's list of readings concerning Migrants and Refugees in the Modern Middle East.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Alison Clark Efford, in the Trump Era, Supporting Our Immigrants

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on how to support immigrants and international students in the current anti-immigration climate. Two authors discuss their work: "Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border" by Ana Rosas...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Cfp: Inheritance and Innovation: An International Symposium on Migration

For Students 9th - 10th
The Institute of American Studies at Northeast Normal University cordially invites U.S. and other international scholars to attend "Inheritance and Innovation: An International Symposium on Migration, Ethnicity and the History of...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Gerson Rosales, Salvadorenos in Michigan

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on Salvadoran refugees and an offshoot of the Central American Peace and Solidarity Movement (CAPSM) that was devoted to aiding Central American refugees during the 1980s, the Deliverance Movement bailed refugees out...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Rohma A. Khan, "South Asian Immigrant Cab Drivers in New York City"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on South Asian immigrants from Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh in the late 20th century attempted to infuse home with their interactions in America, to negotiate their own positions in society. In their pursuit of...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Immigration Historians in the News 2018

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on immigration historians in the news in 2018. It provides a list of links to 2018 immigration publications.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Bryan Winston, Contesting Immigration Incarceration

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on an example of Enrique Betancourt, a Mexican immigrant who was incarcerated for larceny and was released in an unusual manner. This case shows how both Mexican migrants and Mexican officials initiated deportations...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Lucy Salyer Uncovers the History of Expatriation & the Fenian Brotherhood

For Students 9th - 10th
Scholar Lucy Salyer writes about Irish Americans who joined the Fenian Brotherhood around the time of the U.S. Civil War and the shifting ideas of allegiance, citizenship, and expatriation implicated in their story. Read the following...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Expert Witness Database at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the need for expert witnesses which is growing as immigration judges are requiring more and more evidence to back claims made by asylum seekers. The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) at the University...
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Handout
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Carl Lindskoog, "Immigration Detention: A Selective Bibliography"

For Students 9th - 10th
This bibliography supplements an essay in the Summer 2019 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter. This list shows, scholars in an array of disciplines have shaped the historiography of immigration detention. It includes...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Melanie Simone Lorenz, "Promoting Immigration in 19th Century America"

For Students 9th - 10th
This blog focuses on the U.S.'s need for immigration in the 19th and early 20th century to satisfy particular labor needs and increase investments.
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Primary
Museum of the City of San Francisco

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: Chinese Facts for Atlantic Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Museum of San Francisco, this is an article that appeared in print in 1874. Shows image of political cartoon. Links to lots more articles concerning the Chinese immigrant.
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Other

The Progressive Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
Homepage of the national magazine for peace and social justice, THE PROGRESSIVE. Read recent news regarding social justice here.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Population Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how rates of birth, death, immigration, and emigration affect population growth.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

For Students 6th - 8th
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 6-8) to pair with the nonfiction book "When I Was a Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago. Esmeralda Santiago, also known as Negi, describes her childhood growing up in Puerto Rico and her eventual...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of 35 Grade-Leveled text sets (4-11). They are great for social studies teachers or for building background knowledge in reading class, CommonLit's text sets cover a range of historical, cultural, and political...
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 24 Grade-Leveled texts (5-11) on the topic of Immigration. Most Americans can trace their ancestry back to immigrants coming to the New World. Learn about America's history of immigration, particularly during the...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Native American Unit

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This lesson activity introduces to the students the diversity that exists among Native Americans. It provides a map of the tribes in the United States, the tribes in various sections of the US and information about the cultures of these...
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Website
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Iehs Online: The Website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. It features blogs about the history of United States immigration, newsletters, Journal of American Ethnic History, and educational resources concerning the history of...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Detainees

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video from Wide Angle, learn about the conditions that have caused some Zimbabweans to leave their homeland for Botswana.