Encyclopedia of North American Immigration

Editor/Author Powell, John
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Facts On File

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-4381-4056-8
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count: 37
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

Encyclopedia of North American Immigration, Revised Edition is a comprehensive encyclopedia consisting of hundreds of A-to-Z entries on events, themes, people, places, and legislation related to immigration.

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  • A
  • Acadia
  • Acts of Trade and Navigation
  • Addams, Jane
  • Afghan immigration
  • African forced migration
  • Aheong, Samuel P.
  • Albanian immigration
  • Alien and Sedition Acts
  • Alien Contract Labor Act
  • Alien Labor Act
  • Alien Land Act
  • American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
  • American immigration survey and policy overview
  • American immigration to Canada
  • American Protective Association (APA)
  • Amish immigration
  • Angel Island
  • Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
  • Antin, Mary
  • Arab immigration
  • Argentinean immigration
  • Armenian immigration
  • Australian immigration
  • Austrian immigration
  • Austro-Hungarian immigration
  • B
  • Bangladeshi immigration
  • Barbadian immigration
  • Barnardo, Thomas John
  • Barr colony
  • Basque immigration
  • Belgian immigration
  • Bill C-55
  • Bill C-86
  • B’nai B’rith
  • Bosnian immigration
  • Bracero Program
  • Bradford, William
  • Brazilian immigration
  • British immigration
  • Bulgarian immigration
  • Bulosan, Carlos
  • Burlingame Treaty
  • C
  • Cabot, John
  • California gold rush
  • Cambodian immigration
  • Canadian immigration survey and policy overview
  • Canadian immigration to the United States
  • Cape Verdean immigration
  • Carolina colonies
  • Carriage of Passengers Act
  • Cartier, Jacques
  • Castle Garden
  • Champlain, Samuel de
  • Chavez, Cesar
  • “Chicano”
  • Chilean immigration
  • Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
  • Chinese immigration
  • Chinese Immigration Act
  • Civil Rights Act, 1964
  • Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
  • Colombian immigration
  • Columbus, Christopher
  • Compagnie de la Nouvelle France
  • Connecticut during the colonial period
  • Croatian immigration
  • Cuban immigration
  • Czech immigration
  • D
  • Danish immigration
  • Deferred Action Initiatives
  • Delaware during the colonial period
  • Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  • Department of Manpower and Immigration
  • Dillingham Commission
  • Displaced Persons Act
  • Dominican immigration
  • Dominion Lands Act
  • Douglas, Thomas
  • Durham Report
  • Dutch immigration
  • E
  • Ecuadorean immigration
  • Egyptian immigration
  • Elián González case
  • Ellis Island
  • Emergency Quota Act
  • Empire Settlement Act
  • enclosure movement
  • Estonian immigration
  • Ethiopian immigration
  • Evian Conference
  • F
  • Fairclough, Ellen Louks
  • Filipino immigration
  • Finnish immigration
  • Fourteenth Amendment and immigrant rights
  • French and Indian War
  • French immigration
  • G
  • Gentlemen's Agreement
  • Georgia during the colonial period
  • German immigration
  • Ghanaian immigration
  • Gompers, Samuel
  • Gonzales, Corky
  • Gonzalez, Henry B.
  • Graham v. Richardson
  • Greek immigration
  • Guatemalan immigration
  • guest children
  • Gutiérrez, José Angel
  • Gypsy immigration
  • H
  • Haitian immigration
  • Hakluyt, Richard, the Younger
  • Haldimand, Sir Frederick
  • Henderson v. Mayor of New York
  • “Hispanic” and related terms
  • home children
  • Homestead Act
  • Honduran immigration
  • Hudson, Henry
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • Hughes, John Joseph
  • Huguenot immigration
  • Hungarian immigration
  • Hutterite immigration
  • I
  • Icelandic immigration
  • illegal immigration
  • Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)
  • immigrant influence on entertainment
  • immigrant influence on sports
  • Immigration Act, 1864
  • Immigration Act, 1869 (Canada)
  • Immigration Act, 1882
  • Immigration Act, 1903
  • Immigration Act, 1906 (Canada)
  • Immigration Act, 1907
  • Immigration Act, 1910 (Canada)
  • Immigration Act, 1917
  • Immigration Act, 1919 (Canada)
  • Immigration Act, 1924
  • Immigration Act, 1952 (Canada)
  • Immigration Act, 1965
  • Immigration Act, 1976 (Canada)
  • Immigration Act, 1990
  • immigration and Alabama
  • immigration and Alaska
  • immigration and Arizona
  • immigration and Arkansas
  • immigration and California
  • immigration and Colorado
  • immigration and Connecticut
  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
  • immigration and Delaware
  • immigration and Florida
  • immigration and Georgia
  • immigration and Hawaii
  • immigration and Idaho
  • immigration and Illinois
  • immigration and Indiana
  • immigration and Iowa
  • immigration and Kansas
  • immigration and Kentucky
  • immigration and Louisiana
  • immigration and Maine
  • immigration and Maryland
  • immigration and Massachusetts
  • immigration and Michigan
  • immigration and Minnesota
  • immigration and Mississippi
  • immigration and Missouri
  • immigration and Montana
  • Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
  • Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha
  • immigration and Nebraska
  • immigration and Nevada
  • immigration and New Hampshire
  • immigration and New Jersey
  • immigration and New Mexico
  • immigration and New York
  • immigration and North Carolina
  • immigration and North Dakota
  • immigration and Ohio
  • immigration and Oklahoma
  • immigration and Oregon
  • immigration and Pennsylvania
  • Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA)
  • immigration and Rhode Island
  • immigration and South Carolina
  • immigration and South Dakota
  • immigration and Tennessee
  • immigration and Texas
  • immigration and the District of Columbia
  • immigration and Utah
  • immigration and Vermont
  • immigration and Virginia
  • immigration and Washington
  • immigration and West Virginia
  • immigration and Wisconsin
  • immigration and Wyoming
  • Immigration Appeal Board Act
  • immigration data in censuses
  • Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments
  • immigration policy during the cold war
  • Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)
  • Immigration Restriction League (IRL)
  • immigration to Baltimore
  • immigration to Boston
  • immigration to Chicago
  • immigration to Detroit
  • immigration to Houston
  • immigration to Los Angeles
  • immigration to Louisiana
  • immigration to Miami
  • immigration to Montreal
  • immigration to New Orleans
  • immigration to New York City
  • immigration to Philadelphia
  • immigration to San Francisco
  • immigration to Toronto
  • immigration to Washington, D.C.
  • impact of railways on immigration
  • impact of religion on immigration
  • impact of September 11, 2001, on immigration
  • impact of World War I on immigration
  • indentured servitude
  • Indian immigration
  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  • Inouye, Daniel K.
  • International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU)
  • Iranian immigration
  • Iraqi immigration
  • Irish immigration
  • Italian immigration
  • J
  • Jamaican immigration
  • Japanese immigration
  • Japanese internment in North America during World War II
  • Jewish immigration
  • John F. Kennedy, immigration policy of
  • K
  • Korean immigration
  • Korematsu v. United States
  • L
  • La Raza Unida Party (LRUP)
  • labor organization and immigration
  • Laotian immigration
  • Latvian immigration
  • Lebanese immigration
  • Liberian immigration
  • Lithuanian immigration
  • Loyalist emigration after the American Revolution
  • M
  • Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
  • Macedonian immigration
  • Mafia
  • Manifest of Immigrants Act
  • Mann Act
  • Mariel Boatlift
  • Maryland during the colonial period
  • Massachusetts during the colonial period
  • McCarran-Walter Act
  • Mennonite immigration
  • Mexican immigration
  • Mine War
  • Molly Maguires
  • Moroccan immigration
  • N
  • national security and immigration
  • nativism
  • Naturalization Act, 1802
  • Naturalization Acts
  • New Brunswick
  • New France
  • New Hampshire during the colonial period
  • “new immigration”
  • New Jersey during the colonial period
  • New York during the colonial period
  • Newfoundland
  • Nicaraguan immigration
  • Nigerian immigration
  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
  • North West Company
  • Norwegian immigration
  • Nova Scotia
  • O
  • Oregon Boundary Treaty
  • Oriental Exclusion Act
  • Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis
  • Ozawa v. United States
  • P
  • P.C. 695
  • Pacific Islander immigration
  • padrone system
  • Page Act
  • Pakistani immigration
  • Palestinian immigration
  • Pastore, John Orlando
  • Penn, William
  • Pennsylvania during the colonial period
  • Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
  • Peruvian immigration
  • picture brides
  • Pilgrims and Puritans
  • Plyler v. Doe
  • Polish immigration
  • Portuguese immigration
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Proposition 187
  • Puerto Rican immigration
  • Q
  • Quaker immigration
  • Quebec
  • Quebec Act
  • R
  • racial and ethnic categories
  • racism
  • Raleigh, Sir Walter
  • Red River colony
  • Refugee Act
  • Refugee Relief Act
  • refugee status
  • Republic of Texas
  • revolutions of 1848
  • Rhode Island during the colonial period
  • Riis, Jacob
  • Roanoke colony
  • Rølvaag, O. E.
  • Romanian immigration
  • Royal African Company
  • Russian immigration
  • S
  • Salvadoran immigration
  • Samuel Morse, nativist views of
  • Schwenkfelder immigration
  • Scott Act
  • Scottish immigration
  • Serbian immigration
  • Sifton, Clifford
  • Simcoe, John Graves
  • Singh v. Minister of Employment & Immigration
  • slavery
  • Slovakian immigration
  • Slovenian immigration
  • Smith, Al
  • Smith, John
  • South Asian immigration
  • Soviet immigration
  • Spanish immigration
  • Sri Lankan immigration
  • Statue of Liberty
  • Swedish immigration
  • Swiss immigration
  • Syrian immigration
  • T
  • Taiwanese immigration
  • Talon, Jean
  • “Tejanos”
  • terrorism and immigration
  • Thai immigration
  • Tibetan immigration
  • Tijerina, Reies
  • Trinidadian and Tobagonian immigration
  • Turkish immigration
  • Tydings-McDuffie Act
  • U
  • U.S. Border Patrol
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  • U.S. Coast Guard
  • U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  • U.S.-Mexican War
  • Ukrainian immigration
  • Ulster
  • USA PATRIOT Act
  • V
  • Vancouver Riot
  • Vietnamese immigration
  • Virginia during the colonial period
  • Voting Rights Act
  • W
  • Waipahu Plantation strike
  • Wakefield, Edward Gibbon
  • Wald, Lillian
  • War Brides Act
  • West Indian immigration
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King, immigration policy of
  • Winnipeg general strike
  • Winthrop, John
  • World War II and immigration
  • Y
  • Yugoslav immigration
  • Bibliography