Emigration, Immigration & Migration

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Information on the historical, political, demographic, and cultural issues that affect today's diverse Asian American population. This page focus specifically on Chinese Americans, but other pages may also be useful. The author of the website is a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Images and transcriptions of documents pertaining to the history of the Chinese in California.

Digital images from collections at the Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; the Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley; and the California Historical Society, San Francisco.

More than 4,000 images and 3,000 texts about the Chinese in California. Browse topics such as Chinese Exclusion Act or Immigration to find digitized images and documents. Calisphere is a service of the University of California Libraries.

This digital archive from Stanford University provides access to a selection of photographs, manuscripts, payroll records, digitized newspaper articles, and more, all related to the subject of Chinese Railroad Workers in the 1800s.

From the Department of Veterans Affairs- Center for Minority Veterans.

Letters written to Wah Lee, Chinese American, throughout his service in the American Army Air Corps, including during World War II. Part of the Asian American Comparative Collection (AACC), housed at the University of Idaho’s Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology in Moscow, Idaho.

Sample case files for Asian immigration to the U.S. A typical case file contains the individual's name, place and date of birth, physical appearance, occupation, names and relationships of other family members, and family history. The files may contain certificates of identity and residency; correspondence; coaching materials used by "paper sons"; INS findings, recommendations, and decisions; maps of immigrant family residences and villages in China; original marriage certificates; individual and family photographs; verbatim transcripts of INS interrogations and special boards of inquiry; and witnesses' statements and affidavits.

From the National Archives and Records Administration. Provides descriptions of records related to Chinese immigration. In Texas, NARA has a regional office in Fort Worth.

Find out what types of documents archives in Texas have about Chinese Americans.

Includes information about oral histories, Houston newspapers, and business and family collections. Some resources online, others to see in person.

A list of collections of the Austin History Center containing valuable materials about Austin’s Asian American communities, available at the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library. http://library.austintexas.gov/ahc