Many mid-19th century French immigrants were political refugees who ... By 1900, Chicago had the fourth largest Irish population in America, behind New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia.

The United States has long been a country of immigrants, shaped by generations seeking freedom, opportunity, and a better ...

Nearly 3 million Russians entered during the first wave of open immigration that began in the late 19th century and continued into the early 20th century. However, only about 20,000 found their way ...

cultural and legal—between 19th-century Chinese immigrants and other white and nonwhite pioneers who came to America's western territories from all parts of the globe. "Let us consider the vile ...

Donald Trump is expected to invoke a rarely-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in an effort to ramp up deportations.

When studying Latin American history, it’s well known — part of the master narrative — that state-sponsored immigration projects in the 19th century aimed to “whiten” the population. However, we don’t ...

Leaving birthright citizenship to the Roberts court is walking into a minefield – legislation is the smarter route to end ...

Without immigration, America’s population at the close of the century is projected to decline to about 2. ... also changed markedly over the past several centuries. Throughout the 19th and most of the ...

The last half of the 19th century brought more than 5 million German immigrants to the American Midwest, and more throughout the country. They weren't the first to arrive though — immigration to ...

From Irish Catholics in the mid-19th century to Eastern Europeans in the early 20th century to today’s immigrants from Latin America, immigrants are subjected to suspicion and stereotyping.

Diana Archibald specializes in the Victorian novel, Charles Dickens, and Anglo-American transatlantic studies, particularly 19th-century immigration. Her latest (co-edited) book, Dickens and ...