Immigration Myths and Realities

PART I

Go to Immigration Myths and Realities and click on Take the Quiz.
As you take the quiz, use the answers to complete your worksheet.

PART II

Go to one or more of the sites listed below to learn more about immigrants and their experiences.
On your worksheet, write down five things you learned. Please use complete, clearly written sentences.

WEB SITES

• Big Apple History • Coming to America • Looking Back - Interactive presentation about Ellis Island.
• Angel Island: Li Keng Wong's Story - The story of a seven-year-old who arrives from China in 1933.
• Three Recent Immigrants - Read the stories of three recent immigrans from Kenya, India, and Vietnam.
• Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
• Who Lives in America? - Read charts, tables, and graphs that show where immigrants come from.
• Angel Island - Learn about the immigration station at Angel Island.
• On Angel Island, The Walls Still Talk - Read about the poetry Chinese detainees wrote on the wall of the Immigration Station.
• About Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons from Doctors without Borders
• Ellis Island: The Immigrant Experience
• Interactive Map Showing Immigration Data Since 1880
• Interactive Map Showing Global Migration Data
• "Immigrant Nation"- A Times for Kids article.
• Remade in America - A series about the newest immigrants and their impact on American institutions.
• A Texas Town - Slide show about the effects of trying to crackdown on illegal immigration along the border.
• Immigration: The Changing Face of America - Select an immigrant group from the left hand side to learn more about.
• Immigration Data - from Infoplease.
• Meet the Americans - Read the stories of immigrants from Nigeria, Palestine, a baseball player from the Dominican Republic, a Mexican laborer, and an Indian technical worker.

FRESH NEWS

• 30 protesters arrested at federal immigration office in Bloomington - STAR Tribune
• Thai family will get reprieve in citizenship quest - Mercury News
• Hope and urgency at marches for immigration reform - L.A. Times
• 12-Year-Old US Citizen to President Obama: “I Want My Mom Back” - Democracy Now
• Thousands march to protest Sheriff's immigration policy - ABC15
• Poor Latinos are victims of abuse nationwide, activists say - CNN
• Immigration activists want Obama to keep promise - ABCNews Chicago

MULTIMEDIA

Here is a list of multimedia presentations, that deal with the subject of immigration. Watch them at home when you can listen to the audio.

• Slide show on the history of Mexican farm labor in the U.S. and the related article, 100 Years in the Backdoor, Out the Front
• Slide show on movies and they way they depict migration
• Across the Border - Interactive feature on an immigrant family from Mexico.