Browse Items (84 total)

India--Emigration and immigration

This is what the new immigration processing center looks like at Ellis Island. It shows the acceptance of the growing immigrant population. This building was not used for its intended purpose.

Both documents are excerpts from a larger work, Mary M. Kritz's U.S. IMMIGRATION AND REGUGEE POLICY, 1983. The first, "Current Status of U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy" by Charles B. Keely, documents why immigration policy is so slow to change.…

Twelve member team of Chinese ""hose"" runners posed in uniform.

India - caste system

First page of the US Chinese Exclusion Act

This cartoon was published in the New Orleans Newspaper depicting what seems to be Americans doing things to Italian Immigrants such as putting them in cages, arresting them, and calling them nuance.

Immigrants landing at Ellis Island

People getting discharged from Ellis Island

"Immigrants from India first arrived in the United States in small numbers during the early 19th century, primarily as low-skilled farm laborers. In recent decades the population has grown substantially, with 2.4 million Indian immigrants resident in…