Supplemental Materials
U.S. Immigration Policy in an Unsettled World
U.S. Immigration Policy in an Unsettled World helps students examine the historical and current dimensions of an issue that has become a key focus of U.S. policy in the wake of 9.11. This unit engages students in the current debate about U.S. national identity.
Online Resources from the Choices Program
U.S. Immigration Policy: What should we do? is available in Teaching with the News. This lesson plan engages students in consideration of divergent policy alternatives concerning the goals of immigration policy. This teaching resource was posted in spring 2006, as controversy over U.S. immigration policy became front page news.
Online Ballot: U.S. Immigration Policy - What Should We Do? This online ballot is designed for use with the online lesson or with U.S. Immigration Policy in an Unsettled World.
Web Links
New York Times Immigration Explorer
This interactive map provides data about where foreign-born groups have
settled in the United States, with the capability to display the change over
time from 1880 to the present day.New York Times Diversity in the Classroom
This interactive graphic provides statistics about diversity in schools in
more than 17,000 districts across the United States, with data tracing the
change over time from the late 1980s to today.Interactive State-by-State Map US Census Data on the Foreign Born
An interactive state-by-state map published by the Migration Policy Institute.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
A U.S. government website that offers statistics and information about government policy.National Immigration Forum
An immigrant rights organization that advocates for public policies that welcome immigrants and refugees.Federation for American Immigration Reform
A national organization that advocates for a reduction in U.S. immigration levels.Human Rights Coalition
A grassroots organization that provides a human rights perspective on immigration in the southern border region of the United States.U.S. Committee for Refugees
Reports and statistics from a refugee advocacy organization.National Immigration Law Center
Information and reports from an organization devoted to helping low-income immigrants.History Now
The March 2005 issue of History Now, an online quarterly journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, focuses on the history of immigration.
Books
Beck, Roy. The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social, and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. Immigration Back to Traditional Levels (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996). 287 pages.
Borjas, George. Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy (New York: Basic Books, 1990). 274 pages.
Huntington, Samuel P. Who Are We: The Challenges to America’s National Identity. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004). 448 pages.
Millman, Joel. The Other Americans: How Immigrants Renew Our Country, Our Economy and Our Values (New York: Penguin, 1998). 369 pages.
Mills, Nicolaus, ed. Arguing Immigration: The Debate over the Changing Face of America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994). 223 pages.
Portes, Alejandro and Rumbaut, Ruben G.. Immigrant America: A Portrait (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1996). 369 pages.
Suro, Roberto. Strangers Among Us: How Latino Immigration is Transforming America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998). 349 pages.
Ungar, Sanford J. Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995). 399 pages.
NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, U.S. Immigration Policy in an Unsettled World. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.