A Brief History of Immigration to the United States

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Mr. Beat gives a (somewhat) brief history of immigration to the United States of America. Have you heard of that country? Boy, he sure has. Anyway...

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Sources/further reading:
https://publications.iom.int/books/world-migration-report-2024
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/12/16/key-facts-about-recent-trends-in-global-migration/
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states-2024
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall by Reece Jones
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Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/total-immigrant-and-emigrant-populations-country
https://sojo.net/articles/how-united-arab-emirates-country-90-percent-immigrants-handles-immigration
https://cers.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/97/2016/10/United-Arab-Emirates-and-racismY-Moradeyo_Mapaderun.pdf
Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border by Rachel St. John
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/40170391

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