Legal History of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Class Resources
Here are links to the class presentation materials:
Regulatory and Statutory History of
Immigrations Law (.pptx or .pdf)
Immigration Resources at
Hastings Law Library (.pdf)
Immigration-Related Videos at Hastings Law Library (.pdf)
Local Historical
Archives (.pdf)
Library Catalog Resources
The Hastings Library Home Page is a good place to start your research. You can access the following resources from the library's web site.
Hastings Online Catalog - Classic View
Hastings Online Catalog - Encore
Melvyl®: the library catalog for the nine campus University of California System
San Francisco Public Library Catalog
Other University of California and
Bay Area Library Catalogs
Online Hastings Resources
Note: the following resources are only available to Hastings faculty, students and staff.
WilsonWeb: Index to Legal Periodicals - Legal periodicals from 1981 to present.
ABI/INFORM Complete with Proquest Research Libraries - Contains business information.
LegalTrac - A bibliographic database to find periodical and newspaper articles from 1980 to present.
19th Century Masterfile - Periodical indices covering the late eighteenth through early twentieth century.
Law Journal Library on HeinOnline - A Comprehensive collection of legal journals and law reviews.
Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations on HeinOnline - Administrative regulations and notices of regulations.
U.S.
Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals on HeinOnline (includes Administrative Decisions under Immigration and Nationality Laws and Administrative Decisions Under Employer Sanctions, Unfair Immigration-Related Employment Practices & Civil Penalty Document Fraud Laws of the U.S.)
Proquest Congressional - U.S. legislative information from 1789 to present.
Proquest Legislative Insight - Compiled legislative histories of bills. By the end of 2012, this database will include 18,000 legislative histories from 1929 to present.
Westlaw Immigration Related Databases - Click on "Topical Materials by Area of Practice," then click on "Immigration." Contains immigration cases, statutes, administrative materials, legislative history, treatises, and other materials. Includes Federal Immigration Bills from 1995 (Database identifier: FIM-BILLTEXT), Federal Immigration Legislative History from 1986 (Database identifier: FIM-LH), and Federal Immigration Congressional Record from 1985 (Database identifier: FIM-CR).
Lexis Immigration Related Databases (Area of Law by Topic: Immigration) - Contains immigration cases, statutes, regulations, administrative materials, and more. For secondary sources, click on "view more" next to the heading "Search Analysis, Law reviews & Journals."
Library Legal Research Guides:
Immigration Resources
Compiling a Federal Legislative
History
Compiling a California
Legislative History
U.S. Library of Congress
Library of Congress Home Page
Law Library of Congress Reading Room
Chronicling America:
Historic American Newspapers (newspapers from 1880-1922; information on newspapers from
1690-present)
LOC: Bibliographies, Research Guides and Finding Aids
A Century of Lawmaking for
a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates
Web Guides by the Library
of Congress Digital Reference Section
LOC's Local History and
Genealogy Reading Room
Immigrant Arrivals:
A Guide to Published Sources
Universities and Educational Institutions
University of California, Los Angeles:
Asian American Studies
Center
Amerasia Journal
Index Search
Amerasia Journal is also available at the San Francisco
Public Library
University of California Berkeley:
Chinese in California: 1859-1925
Ethnic Studies Libraries
Asian American Studies
Collections
Chicano Studies
Collections
Native American Studies
Collections
University of Minnesota:
Immigration History Research Center (see COLLAGE for searchable images)
Yale University:
Yale Law School Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Harvard University:
Open Collection: Immigration to the United States 1789-1930
Syracuse University:
University of Oregon:
E-Asia Digital Library: ebooks and a database of full text web resources on East Asia.
University of Washington:
U.S. Immigration Legislation Online
Government Records and Agencies
Government Agencies and Agency Sub Sites:
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Census Bureau: Population Projections
U.S. Commission on Immigration
Reform (1990-1997)
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Department of Justice
Dept. of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review
Dept. of Justice Virtual Law Library
Dept. of Justice Statistics and Publications
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Dept. of Labor Wirtz Labor Library
Office of Administrative Law Judges Law Library
Historical Statistics and Information:
Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
HA202 B87 1975 (5th Floor Stacks)
Note: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 in the
University of Virginia Library
Historical Census Browser
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration:
National Archives Home Page
National Archival Research
Catalog
Prologue Magazine of
the Natinoal Archives
An Alleged Wife: One Immigrant in the Chinese Exclusion Era by Robert Barde (Prologue,
Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2004)
Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802-1940 by Marian L. Smith (Prologue,
Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 1998)
Foundations, Institutes and Societies
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
California Historical Society
National Park Service: Ellis Island
Migration
Policy Institute Data Hub
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Online Archive of the
Japanese American Relocation During World War II
Last updated Septermber 25, 2011 by Jodi Collova (Temporary Reference Librarian) and Linda Weir (Public Services Librarian)
Prepared by Grace Takatani (Reference Librarian)