In just two decades between 1891 and 1910, about 12.5 million people immigrated to the United States. The majority of these immigrants came from the countries and states that composed Eastern Europe, among them Austria-Hungary, Poland, and Russia. But...

c. 13,000 B.C.E.     The first immigrants arrive on the North American continent and gradually migrate in groups throughout North and South America. Neither the timing of the first migrations nor their origins are...

There have been a number of Immigration Acts in the United...

In Will Kymlicka's spirited defense of Canadian multiculturalism, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), the author writes: Canada does better than virtually any other country in the world in the integration of immigrants. The only comparable country is...

A Framework for Immigration: Asians in the United States. By Uma A. Segal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. 468. The author sets out to construct an analytical framework for understanding immigration in general, and then provides case studies pertaining to Asian...