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

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 increased eleven-fold, to over 33,000 due to the introduction of a U.S. immigration policy called the U.S. Diversity Visa lottery, which began in 1994.