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 our national identity.

Online Resources from the Choices Program

U.S. Immigration Policy: What should we do? is available in Teaching with the News. This is an interactive lesson plan that engages students in consideration of divergent policy alternatives concerning the goals of immigration policy. This teaching resource was posted for use as controversy over U.S. immigration policy became front page news in spring 2006.

Student Ballot: U.S. Immigration Policy: What should we do? This online ballot is designed for us with the online lesson or with our published unit on the subject.

Web Links

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 which 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
Numerous statistics and position papers by a group that hopes to reduce 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 U.S.

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, an online quarterly journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The March 2005 issue of History Now 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.