Encyclopedia of North American Immigration
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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Table of Contents
- 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