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23) Immigration
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Chronicles mass immigration to the United States from the time of the early colonies to today.
25) Ellis Island
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Describes how the immigration station on Ellis Island served as a gateway into the United States for millions of immigrants.
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"The events surrounding immigration through the Angel Island station did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of a male Chinese immigrant, a Chinese woman coming to join her immigrant husband, and a missionary woman trying to help Chinese immigrants as readers act out the scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in...
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Provides an overview of immigration in the U.S. in the years between 1870 and 1920, discussing the reasons why people left Europe and other parts of the world to come to America and their experiences settling in a new country, and features biographies of leading people of the era, and a selection of primary source documents.
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Explores issues surrounding illegal immigration in the United States, discussing the origins of ICE, changes in how illegal immigration is enforced, resistance to the changes, and the future of immigration policies. Includes photographs, sidebars, a list of essential facts, a glossary, and further resources.
31) The Vietnamese
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This book presents both historical perspectives and firsthand insights into the Vietnamese immigrant experience in the last decades of the twentieth century.
40) Ellis Island
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Explores the history of Ellis Island, which housed the United States' most important immigration processing center from 1892 through 1943, serving seventeen million immigrants.