This week we learned about issues relating Japanese interment and watched a video on HR 442 pertaining to Japanese redress. A few […]

Blue collar and Buddha deals with the immigration of South-East Asian refugees into an Illinois town and the struggles that they faced. […]

Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, follows Lily Yuriko’s life in the Japanese internment camps.  During her time in the camp she writes […]

This week’s readings covered immigration laws that favored immigration from Nordic countries over immigration from eastern Europe. We have seen on multiple […]

Island is a series of poems written by Chinese immigrants who were detained while and held in a prison while at angel […]

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska follows the life of a young Jewish immigrant named Sara Smolinsky and her struggles with a new […]

In the letters from Martin Weitz, we view the life of a German immigrant in the United States and the difficulties associated […]

These two readings both covered the topic of forced immigration in the topic of slavery as well as indentured servitude. The first […]