Legal History of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Legal History of Immigrant Groups in the United States

The list below was prepared in connection with the August 2007 Library Presentations by Grace Takatani and Susan Nevelow Mart, for students in Professor Parrish's seminar on the Legal History of Immigrant Groups in the United States.

Library Resources

The Hastings Library Home Page is a good place to start your research. Useful features of this site include:
- Search Library Catalogs
- Library online resources (Note: the following resources are only available to Hastings faculty, students & staff)
  - LexisNexis Congressional for U.S. legislative information.
  - Index to Legal Periodicals (Wilson Web)
  - ABI / INFORM Complete(includes access to Proquest Libraries)
  - LegalTrac
  - 19th Century Masterfile
  - Hein-on-Line (includes the complete Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations)
- Hastings Library Legal Research Guides
U.S. Library of Congress
- Law Library Reading Room
  - Bibliographies and Guides
    - A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
- Local History & Genealogy Reading Room
  - Bibliographies and Guides
    - "Immigrant Arrivals: A Guide to Published Sources"

Universities/Educational Institutions

University of California Los Angeles:
- Asian American Studies Center
  - Amerasia Journal Index Search (Amerasia Journal is available at the San Francisco Public Library)
University of Minnesota:
- Immigration History Research Center (see COLLAGE for searchable images)
Yale Law School Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy
Harvard University:
Open Collection: Immigration to the United States 1789-1930
University of California, Berkeley:
- Ethnic Studies Libraries

Government Agencies

U.S. Census Bureau
- Population Projections
- Statistics:
  Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
  HA202 B87 1975 (5th Floor Stacks)
  This is an important resource for historical statistics of the United States. Much of the information from this collection is available on the web at
  http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census.
U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (1990-1997)
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
  - Historical Immigration and Naturalization Legislation
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Dept. of Justice
- Executive Office for Immigration Review
  - Virtual Law Library
  - Statistics and Publications
U.S. Dept. of Labor
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
- Archival Research Catalog

Foundations/Institutes/Societies

Last updated August 2007
Prepared by Grace Takatani (Catalog Librarian) and Susan Nevelow Mart (Reference Librarian)

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