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Emigration, Immigration & Migration
A guide to library and online sources with a special focus on U.S. immigration
Web Resources
- Asian Americans: A Diverse and Growing PopulationThe Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan organization that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, and media analysis.
- "Chinese Americans." Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America.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.
- San Francisco Chinese - Virtual Museum of the City of San FranciscoImages and transcriptions of documents pertaining to the history of the Chinese in California.
- The Chinese in California, 1850-1925Digital 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.
- CalisphereMore 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.
- Chinese Railroad Workers in North America ProjectThis 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.
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Veterans Fact SheetFrom the Department of Veterans Affairs- Center for Minority Veterans.
- Wah Lee, Army Air Corps, Correspondence, 1943 -1946, 1955Letters 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.
Archives
- Sample Case Files from the National Archives at San FranciscoSample 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.
- Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States - NARAFrom the National Archives and Records Administration. Provides descriptions of records related to Chinese immigration. In Texas, NARA has a regional office in Fort Worth.
- TARO: Texas Archival Resources OnlineFind out what types of documents archives in Texas have about Chinese Americans.
- Asian American Materials in Special Collections - Rice UniversityIncludes information about oral histories, Houston newspapers, and business and family collections. Some resources online, others to see in person.
- Austin History Center - Asian American CollectionsA 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