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.

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