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Illegal immigration

Here are entered works on the act of permanently or temporarily relocating across national borders without complying with the legal requirements of the destination country. When this heading is assigned to works on persons who immigrate illegally, the heading Noncitizens is also assigned.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Emigration and immigration

• Noncitizen detention centers

• Illegal immigration -- Government policy
• Illegal immigration -- United States

• Children of illegal aliens
• Illegal alien children
• Illegal aliens
• Irregular migration
• Unauthorized immigration
• Undocumented immigration
• Women illegal aliens

• Undocumented Migrants and Healthcare: Eight Stories from Switzerland (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Marianne Jossen (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Protect, Serve, and Deport: The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement (Oakland: University of California Press, c2017), by Amada Armenta (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)

• Problems and Options in Estimating the Size of the Illegal Alien Population: Report to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate (GAO/IPE-82-9, 1982), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Undocumented Workers: Are They the Problem? (New American Movement pamphlet, 1977), by Glenn Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Legal Immigration: Setting Priorities (report to Congress; 1995), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility (Jordan commission interim report to Congress; 1994), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, contrib. by Barbara Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration: Report of a Workshop (1996), ed. by Barry Edmonston and Ronald Demos Lee (page images with commentary at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Jailed Without Justice: Immigration Detention in the USA (ca. 2008), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnestyusa.org)

• World of Walls: The Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Said Saddiki (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Human Migration (originally published as Scientific Geography #7; c1986), by W. A. V. Clark (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Migration in a Globalised World: New Research Issues and Prospects, ed. by Cédric Audebert and Mohamed Kamel Doraï (PDF with commentary at imiscoe.org)

• Nations, Identities, Cultures (originally published as special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly; c1995), ed. by V. Y. Mudimbe, contrib. by Martin Bernal, Dominique Colas, Wyatt MacGaffey, Jocelyn Létourneau, Daphna Golan-Agnon, Miriam Cooke, Thomas Lahusen, Anders Linde-Laursen, John McCumber, John McCumber, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, and Kenneth Surin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Migrating into Financial Markets: How Remittances Became a Development Tool (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2015), by Matt Bakker
  • multiple formats at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Tonnewonte, Or, The Adopted Son of America (Watertown, NY: J.Q. Adams, 1825), by Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), ed. by Samuel Martínez (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• What's New About New Immigrants in Twenty-First Century Britain? (York, UK: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, c2006), by Robert Berkeley, Omar Khan, and Mohan Ambikaipaker (PDF in the UK)

• A Paradise Called Texas, by Janice Jordan Shefelman (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Johnny Texas (Chicago: Wilcox and Follett, c1950), by Carol Hoff, illust. by Bob Meyers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2008), by David N. Myers (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Migration and Society (partial serial archives)
• The Immigrants in America Review (full serial archives)

• Latin American Immigration Ethics (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2021), ed. by Amy Reed-Sandoval and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)

• Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by William V. Spanos (PDF at Ohio State)

• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship: Experiencing Nationality Law (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol, c2018), by Devyani Prabhat (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), ed. by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Women and Migration: Responses in Art and History (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Deborah Willis, Ellyn Toscano, and Kalia Brooks Nelson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), ed. by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Irish in Australia (1887), by James Francis Hogan (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2010), by Andrew Gardner (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, c2014), by Wen-Chin Chang (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience--Questions and Answers, by Kevin F. McCarthy and Georges Vernez (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• The Canadian Settler's Guide (London: E. Stanford, 1860), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hints to Emigrants, in a Series of Letters From Upper Canada (Edinburgh: Printed for Waugh and Innes, 1824), by William Bell (HTML at globalgenealogy.com)
• Reception and Protection of Female Immigrants in Canada (ca.1879), by Elsie von Koerber (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Female Emigrant's Guide, and Hints on Canadian Housekeeping (Toronto: Maclear, 1854), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• God's Answers: A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada, by Clara M. S. Lowe, contrib. by John Macpherson (Gutenberg text)
• Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners and Emigration, in the United States and Canada: Made During a Residence There in 1832 (London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1833), by Isaac Fidler (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (London: University of London Press, 2020), ed. by Jack Webb, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and William Tantam (PDF with commentary at humanities-digital-library.org)

• Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, c2014), by Wen-Chin Chang (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Chinese Immigration, by California Special Committee on Chinese Immigration (page images at MOA)
• Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1881), by George F. Seward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Why and How: Why the Chinese Emigrate, and the Means they Adopt for the Purpose of Reaching America, by Russell H. Conwell (page images at MOA)

• Skandinaver i Congo: Svenske, Norske og Danske Mænds og Kvinders Virksomhed i den Uafhængige Congostat (in Danish; Copenhagen: Gyldendalske boghandel, Nordisk forlag, 1902-1905), by Harald Jenssen-Tusch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Work In Progress: Migration, Integration and the European Labour Market (c2003), ed. by Helen Disney, contrib. by Mikel Azurmendi, David Coleman, Tamar Jacoby, Bob Rowthorn, and Juan José Toribio (PDF at Civitas)

• The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Krista O'Donnell, Renate Bridenthal, and Nancy Ruth Reagin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 (3 volumes; Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, ed. by William John Hinke
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust

• Britishness, Belonging and Citizenship: Experiencing Nationality Law (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol, c2018), by Devyani Prabhat (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Alien Immigrant (London: W. Heinemann; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by W. Evans-Gordon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• England Under the Jews (London: J. Banister, 1901), by Joseph Banister (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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