Philadelphia Migration Project

Bibliography

Documenting a Changing City: An Annotated Bibliography of Immigration in Philadelphia since 1965

Over the last few decades, immigration has transformed metropolitan areas across the United States. Global economic shifts have pushed the world's labor markets into unprecedented flux, and international migration now defines more and more people's lives. The Federal Immigration Act of 1965 opened U.S. borders to non-Western European immigration for the first time since the 1920s, and documented and undocumented workers from all parts of the globe have traveled to the United States to fill jobs in a changing economy. Joining these workers and their families, new refugee populations have come to the United States seeking political asylum. Others were resettled here in the wake of the Vietnam War. Cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago have become some of the most ethnically diverse places in the world while cities like Miami, Phoenix and Houston have grown increasingly Latino. READ COMPLETE PAPER