Immigration and Migrant Groups: Books

For works generally about immigration and migration, try:

• Emigration and immigration (for movement of people across country borders)
• Migration, Internal (for movement of people within a country)

There are a number of subheadings for more specific topics, such as:

• Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects
• Emigration and immigration law--United States
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century

For immigration to or from a specific country, search the country name with emigration as a subheading; for example:

• United States--Emigration and immigration
• China--Emigration and immigration

For information about the people specifically, some subjects that might be useful:

• Immigrants
• Migrant agricultural laborers
• Children of immigrants
• Children of migrant laborers

Or for information about specific ethnic immigrant groups in the United States:

• Chinese Americans
• Polish Americans
• etc.

Search for books locally:

It may be useful to limit the search in WestCat to a specific collection, depending on what resources are needed, as there are many government publications and Curriculum Library materials (i.e. children's books) on the topics of ethnic groups and immigration.

Also try I-Share for more titles, especially for information on smaller ethnic groups or for materials in non-English languages: