496 resources
I. List serves:
http://www.h-net.org/~border/resources.html
http://www.h-net.org/~migrate/
II. Sources:
personal and organizational papers
U.S. congress
Executive Branch agencies
Census data
Maryland State and local archives
INS and other agencies
Media
Online document collections?
III. Topics:
Internal migration (African Americans from South to North in 19 th and 20 th C, southerners to southwest and California in 1930s)
identity formation
immigration policy – laws, acts, agencies (Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Immigration Act of 1924, Immigration Control and reform act of 1986).
immigrant experiences and culture
Immigration/migration of particular groups
Anti-immigration movements and organizations
-how did they form, what did they advocate, what were the sources of their ideological/political/economic opposition to certain kinds of immigration/migration
-immigration and labor – how did labor movements and unions respond, react to, encourage or resist certain types of migration, immigration
construction of borders (US- Canada, US-Mexico), border enforcement policy
racial identity formation
migration or emigration of certain groups to/from Baltimore/Maryland
refugees to the US: jewish, polish, Cuban, Vietnamese, Central American in 1980s, central African, former Yugoslavia in 1990s
US refugee and resettlement policy
IV. Getting Started:
Maryland Historical Society: http://www.mdhs.org/
http://userpages.umbc.edu/~lindenme/hist201/researchtrail.htm
Sources/Review essays/book reviews:
1. Journal of American History:
The Nation and Beyond, Journal of American History, December 1999 Volume 86, No. 3 (Available through UMBC research Post, History Cooperative)
- Gabaccia, Donna. "Is Everywhere Nowhere? Nomads, Nations, and the Immigrant Paradigm of United States History." Journal of American History. vol. 86. no. 3. p. 1115-1134. 1999
2. Journal of American Ethnic History: http://www.historycooperative.org/jaehindex.html
James Barrett and David Roediger, “In Between Peoples: Race, Nationality and the ‘New Immigrant’ Working Class,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 16 (1997): 3-44.
V. Websites, databases
Peopling North America : Provides a historical overview of migratory movements to and within the United States , Mexico , and the Caribbean from Europe , Asia , and Africa .http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/Fhome.html
Balch Institute, http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=554 Materials stemming from the Balch and Balch collections, or relevant to the ethnic and immigrant experience, can be found throughout this site. Please visit the Quick Links on the Ethnic and Immigrant Experience for assistance in locating this material.
VI. UMBC Library Resources
In the REF collection (and in the stacks) immigration/ethnic relations, etc are all over but if students want to browse, call numbers are concentrated primarily in the E184, and J-ranges, with exceptions. Lot's are older works collected for genealogical research are sprinkled througout. Here's a sample, with call nos.: STATISTICS Historical statistics of the United States : earliest times to the present [HA202.H57 2006] **Besides the stats, nice overview intros for both internal and international migration. (Vol. 1) --census microfilm for the MD region are also in REF ETHNIC ORIGIN STUFF Encyclopedia of the Chinese overseas [DS732 .E53 1999] Encyclopedia of Japanese descendants in the Americas : an illustrated history of the Nikkei [E29 .J3 E53 2002] The complete book of emigrants (4 VOLS) [E184.B7 C59 1988] Latino chronology : chronologies of the American mosaic [E184.S75 F543 2007] Latinas in the United States : a historical encyclopedia [E184.S75 L35 2006] Oxford encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States [E184.S75 O97 2005] West Indian Americans : a research guide [E184.W54 W47 2001] Asian American almanac : a reference work on Asians in the United States [E184.O6 A824 1995] Asian American encyclopedia [E184.O6 A827 1995] Judaica Americana : an annotated bibliography of publications from 1960-1990 [E184.J5 K115 1995] Encyclopedia of multiculturalism [E184.A1 E58 1994] The peopling of America : a timeline of events that helped shape our nation : a historical perspective [E184.A1 K84 1994b] Dictionary of Mexican American history [E184.M5 M453] Comprehensive bibliography for the study of American minorities [E184.A1] Ukrainians in North America : a biographical directory of noteworthy men and women...[E184.U5 U486] POLICY and SOCIAL ISSUES, LAW Encyclopedia of immigration and migration in the American West [HB1965 .E53 2006] Immigration in America today : an encyclopedia [JV6465 .I4754 2006] Illegal immigration : a reference handbook [JV6483 .L45 2007] The new Americans : a guide to immigration since 1965 [JV6455 .N49 2007] Immigration procedures handbook [KF4819 .I47] PRIMARY SOURCE kind of stuff: New World immigrants : a consolidation of ship passenger lists and associated data from periodical literature [CS68 .N48] Emigrants from England to the American colonies, 1773-1776 [CS68 .C519 1988] Immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland : a guide to archival and manuscript sources in North America [E184.B7 W42 1986] German immigrants : lists of passengers bound from Bremen to New York, 1855-1862, with places of origin [E184.G3 Z563 1986] English adventurers and emigrants, 1661-1733 : abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America [E184.B7 C63 1985] The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations 1600-1700. [E187.5 .H794 1976] Pennsylvania German pioneers; a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 [F160.G3 S8 1966]