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Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger L. Nichols, David M. Reimers. Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

	Takaki, Ronald. Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
	Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.
	Jensen, Joan M. Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

	Velez-Ibanez, Carlos G. Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.
	Kahn, Robert S. Other People's Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

A study of immigration and refugees camps and detention centers.

Zucker, Norman L and Naomi Flink Zucker. Desperate Crossings: Seeking Refuge in America. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996.

A study of US policy towards political refugees and their experiences.

Long, Robert Emmet, ed. Immigration to the U.S. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1992.

A collection of essays.

Edwards, Jerome E. Pat McCarran, Political Boss of Nevada. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1982.

A biography of one of the sponsors of the Walter-McCarran Act of 1952.

Blue Collar and Buddha: A Documentary. Directed by Taggart Siegel. 57 m. 1987. Videorecording.

Documents local attitudes toward Laotian refugees living in Rockford, Illinois, and raises issues related to acculturation. Interviews the "locals," Vietnam veterans, and Laotians, in a bar, the Buddhist temple, and the workplace. Documents racial prejudice, ignorance, compassion, and understanding. Available in Knight Library.

Miles from the Border. Produced, directed, and written by Ellen Frankenstein. 15m. 1987. Videorecording.

Describes the changes that have taken place in the last twenty years in an agricultural community north of Los Angeles. A brother and sister describe how they migrated from a rural Mexican village to the town and tell what it is like to live in a world divided between Anglos and Chicanos. Available in Knight Library.

The Rites of Passage: A Khmer Journey West. Written and produced by Daniel Patterson. 28m. 1990.

Documents the experience of a community of 7,00 Khmer refugees in King County, Washington. In IMC. Available in Knight Library.

El Norte. Directed by Gregory Nava. 139m. 1983. Videorecording.

The story of two Guatemalan refugees who leave for their village for the United States. Available in video stores.

Mississippi Masala. Directed by Mira Nair. 118m. 1992. Videorecording.

A story of an African American and Asian Indian couple in Mississippi. Available in video stores.

Immigration and Naturalization Service

Their official web site. http://uscis.gov

U.S. Border Patrol National Museum

http://www.borderpatrolmuseum.com/htdocs/content.html

National Immigration Forum

An advocate organization for immigrants and refugees. http://www.immigrationforum.org/

Kelly, Gail Paradise. From Vietnam to America: A Chronicle of the Vietnamese Immigration to the United States. Boulder: Westview Press, 1977.

	Lee, Joann Faung Jean. Asian American Experiences in the United States: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991.
	Morrison, Joan and Charlotte Fox. American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It. New York: Dutton, 1980.
	Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Regulations

A comprehensive database of documents pertaining to immigration and naturalization law. http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/lawsregs/index.htm

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. Guest Worker Programs: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, December 7, 1995. Washington D.C.: GPO, 1996.

In Government Documents.

United States Dept. of Justice Administrative. Decisions Under Immigration & Nationality Laws. Washington D. C.: GPO, 1947-.

Federal immigration rulings from 1947 to the present. In the Law library.

U.S. Dept. of Labor, Immigration and Naturalization Service. Annual Report of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Washington D.C.: GPO,

1946-1982. Various volumes in Knight library and the law library.