U. S. Immigration
General Immigration
List of Digital Collections, including oral history collections, on migration and migration
Caribbean Sea Migration Collection: Materials related to Cuban, Dominican and Haitian maritime migration from 1965-1996, including camps at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 1991-1996.
Immigrant Voices (Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation) offers narratives of immigrants to the Pacific Coast.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (1800-1950.) includes 342 authors and approximately 37,500 pages of information, illustrating what it meant to immigrate to the United States and Canada.
Annual report of the Superintendent of Immigration to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1891-1924.
HOLLIS Record (1895-1905)
Online Version
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Naturalization to the Secretary of Labor, 1912-1932
HOLLIS Record (1914-1932)
Online Version
Annual Report of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1941-1986
Online Version
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Electronic Reading Room offers documents released via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests.
Immigration Law & Policy in the U.S. includes historical documents and legislation together with current hearings, debates and developments in immigration law. Also includes scholarly articles and an extensive bibliography.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 offers material from Harvard libraries, archives, and museums.
U.S. immigration and naturalization laws and issues: a documentary history, ed. by Michael LeMay and Elliott Robert Barkan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999, 336 p.
HOLLIS record. Available online via Internet Archive.
House-Senate U.S. Immigration Commission (or Dillingham Commission) reports (1907-1911) 41 vols. Allied to anti-immigration members of Congress.
Immigration : records of the INS, 1880-1930
HOLLIS Record
Asian American Immigration
Chinese Americans
Chinese American Experience: 1857-1892 offers articles and advertisements from Harper's Weekly Magazine
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive: Chinese Americans offers documents concerning Chinese Americans along the Columbia River Basin (encompassing areas of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and and British Columbia).
"Chink!" A documentary history of anti-Chinese prejudice in America, ed. by Cheng-Tsu Wu. New York, World Pub. 1972, 289 p.
HOLLIS Record. Available online via Internet Archive.
Chinese American voices: from the gold rush to the present, ed. by Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006., 462 p. HOLLIS Record. Available online via Internet Archive.
Japanese Americans
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive: Japanese Americans offers documents concerning Japanese Americans along the Columbia River Basin (encompassing areas of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah and and British Columbia).
Densho includes first-hand accounts of Japanese-American internments during WWII.
Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Digital Archive offers documents from The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS), a initiated in 1942 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Online Archive of the Japanese American Relocation during World War II Articles, newspapers, pamphlets, and other material.
For more resources, see the Japanese Americans page on the Library Research Guide for Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.
South/Southeast Asian Americans
SEAAdoc: Documenting the Southeast Asian American Experience (1975- ) offers images and text concerning refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
South Asian American Digital Archive
Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive (University of California, Davis) offers video interviews, speeches, diaries, photographs, articles, and letters relating to Punjabi Americans in California.
South Asian Oral History Project (University of Washington) offers South Asian immigrant oral histories from the Pacific Northwest.
Korean Americans
Korean American Digital Archive (1903-1965) offers documents, photographs, and sound files on the Korean American community.
Mexican Americans and Latin American Immigrants
Between the lines: letters between undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants and their families and Friends, ed. by Larry Siems. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1995, 311 p. HOLLIS Record. HOLLIS Record (1992 ed.) Available online via Internet Archive.
Rostros y rastros: entrevistas a trabajadores migrantes en Estados Unidos, by Jorge Durand et al. San Luis Potosí, S.L.P.: El Colegio de San Luis, 2002, 204 p. HOLLIS Record
Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, by Miroslava Chávez-García. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
La vida de los trabajadores latinos contada por ellos mismos, by Anne Bar Din. México: Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2008, 118 p. HOLLIS Record
Mexican Labor and World War II: The Bracero Program.
Collection of era photographs, documents, and oral history interviews.
Bracero History Archive
The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
Latino Oral History Collection (New Jersey) (NYPL)
Periodical Articles
Chicano Database overs Mexican-American topics 1967 to the present. Scope expanded 1992 to include the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database.
HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) (1970- ) indexes scholarly journals published in Latin America or treating Latin American and U.S. Hispanic topics.
Handbook of Latin American studies (1936- ) is a comprehensive annotated bibliography. No full-text available - need to look up items in HOLLIS.