UCF Research Guides: International Government: Immigration

Immigration Resources

Foreign-Born Population (U.S. Census)
provides access to various reports and data tables, e.g.,
- Coming to America: A Profile of the Nation's Foreign Born
- Coming from the Americas: A Profile of the Nation's Latin American Foreign Born
- Foreign-Born Population in the U.S. (annual, 1994-2003)
- From the Mideast to the Pacific: A Profile of the Nation's Asian Foreign-Born Population
- Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the U.S.: 1850-2000
- Infographic: How Do We Know? America’s Foreign Born in the Last 50 Years
Immigration & Asylum from 1900 to Present
"offers numerous entries organized around four themes:
- immigration and asylum;
- the major migrating groups around the world;
- expulsions and other forced population movements; and
- the politics of migration."
Includes a section of primary sources, including legislation, treaties, and United Nations documents.
Immigration & Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
UCF Main Library Reference - 2nd Floor -- JV6465.I4737 2006
"contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context."
Immigration & Citizenship (USA.gov)
provides links to resources including:
- Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants (in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese)
- Naturalization information
- Naturalization Test study materials

Immigration Statistics

Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services)

Online version (2004+)
Online Archives (2002-2003)
U.S. Documents HS 8.15: (2002-2003)
ASI Microfiche 8744-3 (2002+)

"a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized. The Yearbook also presents data on immigration law enforcement actions, including alien apprehensions, removals, and prosecutions."
"In addition to the Yearbook, the Office of Immigration Statistics Annual Flow Reports and Annual Reports provide text, tables, and charts on legal permanent residents, refugees and asylees, nonimmigrant admissions, naturalizations, and enforcement actions. The Annual Flow Reports and Annual Reports have replaced the text chapters in the earlier editions of the Yearbook."

Statistical Yearbook of the Immigration & Naturalization Service

previous title: Immigration & Naturalization Service Annual Report

Online Archives (1996-2001)
U.S. Documents J 21.2: St 2/ (1978, 1980, 1981)
U.S. Documents J 21.2/10: (1982, 1984, 1997, 2001)
U.S. Documents Microfiche J 21.2/10: (1983, 1986-1996)
ASI Microfiche 6264-2 (1971-2001)

U.S. Citizenship Test

test preparation materials

Web directories to immigration resources:

NOTE: The UCF Library may not have direct access to all of the resources listed:

Immigration Resources (University of California, Berkeley)
Government Documents on Immigration (Purdue University)