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An overview of immigration from the Philippines to the United States and Canada since the 1960s, when immigration laws were changed to permit greater numbers of people to enter these countries.

Describes, in question and answer format, the great migration of immigrants to New York's Ellis Island, from the 1880s to 1914. Features quotes from children and adults who passed through the station.

''Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—from Mexico, Japan, and Canada as well as the more common embarkation points of southern and eastern Europe. Many of them were children. Together with the American-born...

Describes Angel Island Immigration Station and why it is a symbol of hope and struggle.

Relates the story of immigration to America through the voices and stories of those who passed through Ellis Island, from its opening in 1892 to the release of the last detainee in 1954.

In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.

Explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups have evolved throughout U.S. history, from 1800 to today.

Students will read about 19th-century life in Ireland and how mass starvation caused by the Irish Potato Famine forced 2 million people to leave their homes and seek a new life elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands of these people came to America, hoping to make a new start. Primary sources and compelling text bring to life the unique history of many of the Irish people who now make up the fabric of the United States.