The College of New Rochelle Mother Irene Gill Library
March/April
Exhibit:
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CURRENT ISSUES IN IMMIGRATION
Exhibit by Sr. Martha Counihan O.S.U. Associate
Professor, College Archivist, Gill Library
Online exhibit
adaptation by Susan Acampora,
Associate Professor, Systems Librarian, Gill
Library.
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The United States is a nation
of immigrants; in 1890 42.2 % of New York City’s
residents were immigrants. A century later the
percentage was 28.4%, and the numbers continue to
climb.
Historically, in the
United States, when numbers of foreign born
residents have risen, a result has been alarm,
nativism (a shared popular belief favoring the
native born over the foreign born), and local,
state, or national legislation aimed at controlling
or excluding immigration of all or selected foreign
born populations. Religion, race, language, and
ethnicity have all been targeted by those who wish
to exclude new immigrants.
This display includes a
number of items from the Gill Library’s collections
in history, education, law, social sciences, and
literature which treat the present debates over
immigration.
A foreign born person in
the US can be a naturalized citizen, a student or
worker on a temporary visa, a refugee, an
asylum-seeker, or an undocumented resident. How and
why persons choose to leave their homeland or must
leave and come to the United States have layers of
economic, social, religious, employment, political,
and personal issues uniquely interlaced.
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Literature is one way in which the
immigrants’ stories are shared;
children’s, young adult, and adult
fiction recount the often painful
transition of entry into the foreign
culture of the USA.
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Viewing our borders as open entry-ways for illegal
immigration is not a 21st Century
phenomenon. This 1889 illustration displays the
illegal entry of Chinese who had been excluded from
entry into the US as early as the 1870’s.
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Calisphere and was contributed
Courtesy of The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
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1870 US
Census of Ursuline convent in Morrisania;
24 of the nuns were immigrants, 7 were
American born.
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1870 US Census showing the family of Mother Irene
Gill (Lucy) living in Manhattan; the family arrived
from Ireland in 1868. The older children were
working, the younger ones attended school.
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1922 Naturalization papers of Mother
Philomena Barrett; the passing of
women’s suffrage led to many women
becoming naturalized.
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Check out the Gill Library Website section on
RESOURCES to locate library holdings and online
information sources on immigration
See also, the
Immigration Research Guide
prepared by Ana Fontoura, Assistant Professor,
Electronic Resources Librarian, Gill Library.
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Bibliography of Exhibit
Books:
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General Studies
American mosaic : the
immigrant experience in the words of those who lived
it. Morrison, Joan and
Charlotte Fox Zabusky. Compilers. New
York : Dutton, 1980.
JV6455 .M67
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The case against
immigration : the moral, economic, social, and
environmental reasons for reducing U.S. immigration
back to traditional levels.
Beck, Roy . New York: W. W. Norton,
1996.
JV6471 .B43 1996
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Coming to America : a history
of immigration and ethnicity in American life.
Daniels, Roger. Editor. New
York, NY : HarperCollins, c1990.
E184.A1 D26 1990
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book from Google Books
Con respeto : bridging the
distances between culturally diverse families and
schools : an ethnographic portrait.
Valdés, Guadalupe. New
York : Teachers College Press, 1996. LC2687.T4
V35 1996
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book from Google Books
Finding my voice.
Lee, Mary G. Boston : Houghton Mifflin,
1992.
JUV L
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The hundred secret senses.
Tan, Amy. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons,
c1995.
PS3570.A48 H86 1995
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Illegal immigration :
an unfolding crisis.
James, Daniel .
Lanham, Md. : University Press of
America ; Washington, D.C. : Mexico-United States
Institute, c1991
HD8081.M6 J36 1991
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Illegal immigration :
opposing viewpoints.
Dudley, William . Editor.
San Diego, Calif. :
Greenhaven Press, c2002.
JV6483 .I54 2002
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Immigrant women.
Schwartz
Seller, Maxine. Editor. Albany :
State University of New York Press, 1994.
HQ1410 .I43 1994
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Immigration.
Gerdes, Louise I. , Editor. San Diego:
Greenhaven Press, 2005.
JV6465 .I4713 2005
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The Immigration and
Naturalization Service.
Dixon, Edward H. and Mark A. Galan.
New York : Chelsea House,
1990.
JV6465 .D26 1997
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Immigration
law and procedure in a nutshell.
Weissbrodt, David and Laura Danielson.
St. Paul.:
Thomson/West, c2005.
KF4819.3 .W4 2005
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Immigrants out! : the
new nativism and the anti-immigrant impulse in the
United States. Perea,
Juan F. Editor.
New York : New York University
Press, c1997.
E184.A1 I4355 1996
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Not like us :
immigrants and minorities in America, 1890-1924.
Daniels, Roger . Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1997.
JV6465 .D26 1997
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The other side = El otro lado.
Alvarez,
Julia. New York : Dutton, c1995.
PS3551.L845 O84 1995
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Paper Fish.
De Rosa, Tina. New York : Feminist Press at the City
University of New York, 1996
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Refugee.
Rose, Anne K. New
York : Dial Press, c1977.
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Teaching Other
People's Children:
Literacy and Learning in a Bi-Lingual Classroom.
Ballenger, Cynthia. New York :
Teachers College Press, c1999.
LC3746 .B336 1999
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book from Google Books
The transplanted : a history
of immigrants in urban America.
Bodnar, John.
Bloomington : Indiana University
Press, 1987.
E184.A1 B59 1987
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