Resources for Teaching the Common Book

This page offers an introduction to resources on contemporary immigration policy and politics in the United States. Click on a link below to jump to that section or page.

• Data and Facts about Immigration
• The Process of Immigration and Naturalization
• Scholarly Research on Immigration to the U.S. (articles)
• Selected UW Seattle Courses on Immigration and Immigration Policy
• Selected Research Bibliography on Immigration

Data and Facts about Immigration

• Yearbook on Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security
• • Current data
  • Archives
• Estimate of Undocumented Immigrant Population, Department of Homeland Security (pdf)
• How Immigrants Affect California Employment and Wages
• How Immigrants Increase Public Safety
• Objective Facts and Figures about Undocumented Immigrants

The Process of Immigration and Naturalization

• How do immigrants become legal permanent residents?
• Who gets denied when applying for citizenship?
• Trying to naturalize: Getting stuck in the citizenship backlog
• About the new citizenship test from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• • Link to the updated citizenship questionnaire >

Scholarly Research on Immigration to the U.S.

Luis Fraga. “Building Through Exclusion: Anti-Immigrant Politics in the United States” (pdf)

Samuel Huntington. “The Hispanic Challenge.” Foreign Policy, April 2004

Luis Fraga and Gary Segura. “Culture Clash? Contesting Notions of American Identity and the Effects of Latin American Immigration.” Perspectives on Politics, June 2006

Frank Bean, Susan Brown, Ruben Rumbaut. “Mexican Immigrant Political and Economic Incorporation.” Perspectives on Politics, June 2006

Kim Geron, Enrique de la Cruz, Leland T. Saito, Jaideep Singh. “Asian Pacific Americans—Social Movements and Interest Groups.” PS: Political Science and Politics, Sept 2001