Immigration/Migration
Collection by The Sociological Cinema • Last updated 5 days ago
Immigration: Population Statistics
Top Countries with the Highest Immigrant Populations
Foreign-born Population in Major Cities, 2014
Source: International Organization for Migration
Immigration contributions to population growth, 2010-2018
Source: William H. Grey analysis of U.S. Census estimates released April 19, 2019 / Metropolitan Policy Program
U.S. refugee resettlement drops, falling below Canada in 2018
Source: Pew Research Center
Immigration: Unauthorized Immigration
Dear U.S. history teachers: Your job is crucial. More than ever. when people say, "Ellis Island took in LEGAL immigrants," please remind students that immigrants did not need visas and green cards during the Ellis Island era. They just showed up. ~ @joseiswriting
The Sociological Cinema
Undocumented migrants pass a young boy between two train cars after they ran and climbed aboard "The Beast." A wave of gang violence in Honduras and El Salvador is causing surging numbers of child migrants to arrive in the United States. Migrants in shelters across southern Mexico report gangs demanding parents pay them a monthly "War Tax”, under threat of killing their children if they do not pay – causing many families to flee north...— at Tenosique, México. Photo credit: Meridith Kohut
A Honduran boy rides a freight through Mexico. Each year thousands of undocumented Central Americans stow away for 1,500 miles on the tops and sides of trains. Some are parents desperate to escape poverty. Many are children in search of a parent who left them behind long ago. Only the brave and the lucky reach their goal. Ferrocarriles Del Istmo De Tehuantepec is the company that operates the trains, 2015. Photo credit: Don Bartletti / The Los Angeles Times
In the hold of the boat Believe in God some hundred miles off the coast of the Bahamas after leaving Ile de la Tortue, Haiti, the Haitians aboard are terrified as we realize that the boat is sinking. Most do not know how to swim. They are willing to risk life to make it to America. Forty-four Haitians are on board attempting to reach America, 2000 — at Ile de la Tortue. Photo credit: Christopher Anderson
Haitians attempt to sail from Haiti to the U.S. in a homemade boat named the "Believe in God"
Crew members take a break on the deck as forty-four Haitians attempt to sail from Haiti to the United States in a 23-foot homemade wooden boat named the "Believe in God," 2000. Photo credit: Christopher Anderson
Many nationalities make up the unauthorized immigrant population in Europe
Source: Pew Research Center
Unauthorized immigrants in Europe account for nearly one-in-five non-EU-EFTA citizens
Source: Pew Research Center
Immigration: Security
Public opinion varies across federal agencies; views of ICE still mixed
Source: Pew Research Center
Detainees sleep & watch TV in a holding cell where hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed & held at the U.S. Customs & Border Protection Nogales Placement Center on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. CPB provided media tours Wednesday of two locations in Brownsville, Texas, & Nogales, that have been central to processing the more than 47k unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally since Oct. 1. - Photo credit: Ross D. Franklin / AP
Migrants and asylum seekers awaiting processing are held in temporary fencing underneath the Paso Del Norte Bridge. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has temporarily closed all highway checkpoints along the 268-mile stretch of border in the El Paso sector, March 28th, 2019. Photo credit: Christ Chavez / Getty Images — in El Paso, Texas.
An aerial view of a tent camp set up to house unaccompanied child migrants, 2018 Photo credit: Joe Raedle / Getty Images — at Texas.
This photo shows a Honduran migrant mother fleeing tear gas at the US-Mexico border with her young daughters, November 2018. Photo credit: Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon
"Our prison for stolen children isn't a concentration camp because we're only killing them accidentally" is not the winning argument yoou think it is. ~ @jdmaccoby
Immigration: Crime
Two Border Patrol officers appear to struggle with a fugitive, 1939
Two Border Patrol officers appear to struggle with a fugitive in the U.S as he tries to get back to Mexico, 1939. The photo is likely staged. Photo credit: Luis Marden
Seeking Safety Is Not a Crime
"Seeking Safety Is Not a Crime" Artist: Médecins Sans Frontières
Immigration: The Economy
Immigration: Employment
Many American unions begin with "international" for a reason.
Many American unions begin with "international" for a reason. It's because solidarity extends beyond our borders. Labor's first organizers understood that workers will only rise together. We must never lose sight of that. #ImmigrantRights are #WorkersRights. ~ @Kanielalng
First Braceros
First Braceros, 1942. In 1942, the Bracero agricultural worker program begins; it will eventually bring almost five million Mexicans to live and work in the U.S. — in Stockton, California. Photo credit: Dorothea Lange / National Building Museum
Immigration: Education
Immigration: Assimilation
"Political Assassinations --Taking the Consequences"
"The N****r Must Go And The Chinese Must Go. The Poor Barbarians Can't Understand Our Civilized Republican Form Of Government." Source: Harper's Weekly, September 13, 1879, p. 721.
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Top Countries with the Highest Immigrant Populations
Two Border Patrol officers appear to struggle with a fugitive, 1939
Two Border Patrol officers appear to struggle with a fugitive in the U.S as he tries to get back to Mexico, 1939. The photo is likely staged. Photo credit: Luis Marden
Refuting Harmful Refugee Myths
source: MediaMatters
"Political Assassinations --Taking the Consequences"
"The N****r Must Go And The Chinese Must Go. The Poor Barbarians Can't Understand Our Civilized Republican Form Of Government." Source: Harper's Weekly, September 13, 1879, p. 721.
Shifting attitudes, persistent divisions in views on immigration, 2020
Source: Pew Research Center
Dear U.S. history teachers: Your job is crucial. More than ever. when people say, "Ellis Island took in LEGAL immigrants," please remind students that immigrants did not need visas and green cards during the Ellis Island era. They just showed up. ~ @joseiswriting
You Can Be a Patriot Without Loving America
We rave about being "land of the free" and a place where anything is possible, yet turn our backs on immigrants seeking refuge or a new start. "Syrian refugees are like Trojan horses..." ~ Donald J. Trump Artist: Alex Graudins (click to see the full cartoon)