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Undocumented Students: Resources & Research: Web Resources

Websites for Researching Undocumented Americans

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Describes recent legal challenges to anti-immigration legislation as well as facts and perspectives on detention, enforcement and other current issues.

College Board: Repository of Resources for Undocumented Students, a detailed directory and guide for high school and college students seeking information about their current rights and benefits relating to education, citizenship and more. Compiled by Alejandra Ricon.

California Community College Dreamers Project:The Project "aims to help the Chancellor’s Office and the 114 California Community Colleges effectively serve undocumented students, especially in light of recent changes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and tense political climate for immigrants... and seeks to lay the groundwork for a longer-term program to implement strategies that will meet undocumented students’ needs.

Center for Migration Studies: original research based on rigorous investigation, fieldwork, and data analysis.These reports seek to provide new perspectives on emerging issues in the field of international migration. They include literature reviews, direct observation, interviews, and experts and community engagement. Based on quantitative and qualitative research findings, CMS reports offer policy recommendations for national and local governments, community-based organizations, civil society institutions, and supranational and international actors.

Harvard University Library: A timeline including historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.

Immigrants Rising: Transforming Lives through Education. "We empower undocumented young people to achieve educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation. We envision an America where all young people can pursue and complete an education with confidence and without constraint. Our work is driven by and for undocumented young people.

Mexican Border Crossing Records (National Archives): Keeping statistics on alien arrivals at U.S. land borders was not required by early immigration acts. Thus, statistical treatment of Canadian and Mexican border immigrants at times has differed from that of other immigrants. When records of arrivals began to be kept at the Canadian border in 1895 and at the Mexican border, ca. 1906, the immigration authorities found it impractical to collect arrival information on lists as they did for ship passengers. Therefore, separate cards or "card manifests" for each person were used instead. These cards contained the same information as that collected on traditional ship passenger arrival lists, such as full name, age, sex, marital status, occupation, point of arrival in the United States, and final destination.

Pew Research Center: Unauthorized Immigration: Another well-organized site with immigration related articles, statistics and surveys. 

Unidos: Well-organized web site from this policy focused organization provides extensive annotated lists of NCLR publications for sale, news briefs on immigration, and an annotated list of other Web sites of interest. In English; includes search engine.