Immigration Policy & Politics
You may contact Maxine Grosshans, the course liaison, for research-related questions at mgrosshans@law.umaryland.edu.
Primary Law | Agencies, Associations, and NGOs | Subscription Databases | Electronic Journals | Additional Electronic Resources | Brief Bibliography of Resources | Lexis | Westlaw
Primary Law
Legislative Materials
- Thomas
- United States Code(searchable full text)
- 8 U.S.C. Chapter 12 - Immigration and Nationality
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-208, 110 Stat 3009, Div. C, Sept. 30, 1996) - this legislation is part of an Appropriations bill - the link provides access only to the immigration bill.
- Immigration Reform and Control Act (Pub. L. 99-603, 100 Stat 3359, Nov. 5, 1986)
- USA Patriot Act
- The REAL ID Act (Pub. L. 109-13, 119 Stat 231, 302-323, May 11.2005)
- Congressional Record (searchable full text)
- Congressional Research Reports
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - Laws, Regulations and Guides
- U.S. Immigration Laws, Regulations, etc.
Administrative Materials
- Code of Federal Regulations (searchable full text)
- List of Sections Affected
- Federal Register (searchable full text)
Judicial Materials
- U.S. Supreme Court (Official site)
- Federal Law Materials - Judicial Opinions - LII
- Federal Court Locator
- Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) -Administrative decisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service after 7/31/2000.
- Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) - Administrative decisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service before 7/31/2000.
- Board of Immigration Appeals vol.16 to date
- OALJ Law Library - Immigration Collection (Office of Administrative Law Judges)
- OCAHO EFOIA (Decisions issued by the US DOJ Chief Administrative Hearing Office on immigration related matters)
- Michigan-Melbourne Refugee Caselaw Site (University of Michigan)
- NOTE: for both more comprehensive and more precise case searches please see the Lexis and Westlaw links below.
Agencies, Associations, and Non-Governmental Organizations
- American Bar Association. Commission on Immigration
- American Civil Liberties Union - Immigrants' Rights
- American Immigration Center
- American Immigration Law Foundation
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Center for Comparative Immigration Studies
- Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
- Center for Immigration Studies
- Center for Individual Freedom
- Department of Homeland Security
- Executive Office for Immigration Review (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
- Federation for American Immigration Reform
- Freedom Forum
- International Organization for Migration
- Migration Policy Institute
- National Immigration Forum
- Office of Immigration Litigation (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- United States Immigration Support
- Urban Institute - do a Research by Topic search
- Visalaw.com - The Immigration Law Portal
- Workplace Fairness
Subscription Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- Bender's Immigration Bulletin -
- BNA's U.S. Law Week
- Business Source Premier
- CQ Weekly
- HeinOnline
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text
- Interpreter Releases (INTERREL) - Westlaw password required
- JStor
Electronic Journals
- American Journal of Political Science
- American Journal of Sociology
- Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
- Asian American Law Journal
- Asian Human Rights Defender
- Berkeley La Raza Law Journal
- Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal
- Chicano-Latino Law Review
- Columbia Human Rights Law Review
- Columbia Journal of Asian Law
- Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
- The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
- Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
- Harvard Human Rights Journal
- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Harvard Journal on Legislation
- Harvard Latino Law Review
- Hybrid: University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change
- Human Rights Review
- Immigration and Nationality Law Review
- Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science
- International Migration Review
- Journal of Economic and Social Research
- Journal of Population Economics
- Michigan Journal of Race & Law
- Michigan Law & Policy Review
- New York University Journal of Legislation & Public Policy
- Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
- Politics and Society
- Social Science Quarterly
- Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal
- Yale Journal of International Law - title varies
- Yale
Law & Policy Review
Additional Electronic Resources
- EOIR Virtual Law Library
- Immigration & Human Rights on the Internet (E.B. Williams Library, Georgetown University School of Law)
- Immigration Law (E.B. Williams Library, Georgetown University School of Law)
- Immigration Law: An Overview (LII)
- Immigration Law Search Engines & Databases
- Immigration Portal
- Immigration Statistics
- U.S. Immigration Law - Web Links
- University
Web Sites Related to Immigration Law
Brief Bibliography
The following is a partial list of the Immigration Policy & Politics related materials available in the Thurgood Marshall Law Library and online. For additional sources on this topic, please check the library's Catalog.
Alienated: immigrant rights, the constitution, and equality in America.
Victor C. Romero. New York: New York University Press, c2005
UMLL: General Stacks - KF4819.R66 2005
American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons. Mark Dow.
Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483 - .D69 2004
America's newcomers and the dynamics of diversity. Frank D. Bean and
Gillian Stevens. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, c2003.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6455 - .B42 2003
Anatomy of a public policy: the reform of contemporary American immigration
law. Michael C. LeMay. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1994.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6493.L45 1994
Arab-American faces and voices: the origins of an immigrant community.
Elizabeth Boosahda. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.
UMLL: General Stacks - F74.W9 - B67 2003
The debate in the United States over immigration. Edited by
Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Standord
University, c1998.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483.D42 1998
Deportation nation: outsiders in American history. Daniel
Kanstroom. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2007
UMLL: General Stacks - KF4842.K25 2007
The devil's highway: a true story. Luis Alberto
Urrea. Boston : Little, Brown, c2004.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6475 - .U77 2004
Dividing lines: the politics of immigration control in America.
Daniel J. Tichenor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483.T494 2002
Elusive citizenship: immigration, Asian Americans, and the paradox of civil
rights. John S.W. Park. New York: New York University Press, c2004
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6450 - .P35 2004
Guarding the golden door: American immigration policy and immigrants
since 1882. Roger Daniels. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483.D36 2004
The "huddled masses" myth: immigration and
civil rights. Kevin R. Johnson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2004.
UMLL: General Stacks - KF4819 - .J64 2004
Immigrant life in the U.S.: multi-disciplinary perspectives.
Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach. London; New York: Routledge,
2004.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6475 - .I47 2004
Immigrants, welfare reform, and the poverty of policy.
Edited by Philip Kretsedemas and Ana Aparicio; with a foreword by Ronald
Walters, and concluding remarks by Kalyani Rai. Westport, Conn.: Praeger,
2004.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483 - .I45 2004
Immigrants, Progressives, and exclusion politics: the Dillingham Commission, 1900-1927. Robert F. Zeidel. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, c2004. UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483 - .Z45 2004
The immigration debate: remaking America. John Isbister. West
Hartford, Conn: Kumarian Press, 1996.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6455.5.I73 1996
Immigration in America's future: social science findings and the policy
debate. David M. Heer. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483.H395 1996
Immigration Law and Procedure in a Nutshell. David Weissbrodt
[and] Laura Danielson. [Eagan, MN]: Thomson/West, 2005.
UMLL: Reading Room KF4819.3.W4 2005
Immigration Law Handbook. Charlottesville, VA: LexisNexis
Gould Publications, c2005.
UMLL: CLinic KF4820.I4 2005
Immigration Practice. Robert C. Divine. Updated by R. Blake
Chisam. Huntington, NY: Juris Pub. Co., c2005.
UMLL: Stacks KF4819.D58 2005
Immigration: Terrorist Grounds for Exclusion of Aliens. Michael
John Garcia [and] Ruth Ellen Wasem. {Washington, DC]: Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress, 2005.
UMLL: Stacks KF4819.I46 2005
Impossible subjects: illegal aliens and the making
of modern America. Mae M. Ngai. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, c2004.
UMLL: Stacks - KF4800 - .N485 2004
Making and remaking America: immigration into the
United States. Philip Martin and Peter Duignan. Stanford, CA: Hoover
Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 2003.
UMLL: Stacks - JV6455 - .M37 2003
A nation by design: immigration policy in the fashioning of America.
Aristide R. Zolbert. New York: Russell Sage Foundation; Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2006.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483.Z65 2006
The new Americans. Rubén MartÃnez; photographs
by Joseph RodrÃguez. New York: New Press: Distributed by Norton,
c2004.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6456 - .M37 2004
Opening and closing the doors: evaluating immigration reform and control.
Frank D. Bean, Georges Vernez [and] Charles B. Keely. Santa Monica, CA: Rand;
Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press; Lanham, MD: Distributed by University
Press of America, c1989.
UMLL: General Stacks - KF4819.B43 1989
Opening the floodgates: why America needs to rethink its borders and
immigration laws. Kevin R. Johnson. New York: New York University Press,
c2007.
UMLL: General Stacks - KF4819.J645 2007
Operation Gatekeeper: The rise of the "illegal alien" and
the making of the U.S.-Mexico boundary. Joseph Nevins. New York: Routledge,
2002.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6483.N47 2002
Post-1965 immigration to the United States: Structural determinants.
Philip Q. Yang. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1995.
UMLL: General Stacks - JV6455.Y36 1995
Race, class, and gender in the United States: an integrated
study.[edited by] Paula S. Rothenberg. New York: Worth, 2003, c2004.
UMLL: Reading Room - HT1521 - .R335 2003
Remaking the American mainstream: assimilation and contemporary immigration. Richard Alba, Victor Nee. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. UMLL: Stacks - JV6475 - .A433 2003
Straddling the border: immigration policy and the INS. Lisa Magaña.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.
UMLL: Stacks - JV6483 - .M27 2003
U.S. Immigration Laws Under the Threat of Terrorism. Julie
Farnam. New York: Algora Pub., c2005.
UMLL: Stacks KF4819.F37 2005
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