The following list includes some important scholarly works in the area of LatAm and the immigration of Hispanic peoples to the United States. Check back for updates or suggest additions here.
Books:
US Immigration from Other Nations, with particular emphasis on Latin America
Archdeacon, Thomas J. Becoming American: An Ethnic History. New York: Free Press. 1983.
Axtell, James. After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. New York. 1990.
Barkan, Elliot Robert. A Nation of Peoples: A Sourcebook on America's Multicultural Heritage. 1990.
Berrol, Selma. Growing Up American: Immigrant Children in America. New York. 1995.
Bogardus, Emory. The Mexican Immigrant: An Annotated Bibliography. Los Angeles, Council on International Relations. 1974.
----------, The Mexican int eh United States. New York: Arno Press. 1934.
----------, "Attitudes and the Mexican Immigrant." In Social Atittudes, edited by Kimball Young, New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1931, 291-327.
Daniels, Roger. Racism and Immigration Restriction. St. Charles, MO. 1974.
----------, Not like us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924. Chicago. 1997
----------, Coming to America.
----------, Guarding the Golden Door.
Dinnerstein, Leonard and Frederic Cole Jaher, eds. Uncertain Americans: Readings in Ethnic History. New York: Oxford University Press. 1977.
Divine, Robert. American Immigration Policy, 1924-1952. New Haven. 1957.
Erikson, Charlotte. Invisible Immigrants. London. 1972.
Ewen, Elizabeth. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars.
Gamio, Manuel. Mexican Immigration to the United States: A Study of Human Migration and Adjustment. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1971
----------, Mexican American: Leadership, Ideology and Identity, 1930-1960. New Haven, 1990.
Gordon, Milton. Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins. New York: 1964.
Griswold de Castillo, Richard and Arnoldo De Leon. North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States. New York: Twayne Publishers. 1997.
Higham, John. Send these to me: Immigration in Urban America. Baltimore. 1984.
----------, Strangers in the land. New Brunswick, NJ. 1955.
Hoerder, Dirk. Distant Magnets: Expectations and Realities in the Immigrant Experience, 1840-1930. New York. 1993.
Holloway, Thomas. Immigrants on the Land. Chapel Hill. 1980.
Articles:
Bernard, William. "American Immigration Policy: A Reappraisal." Statistical Abstracts. 44: 1973.
Cardenas, Gilberto. "United States Immigration Policy towards Mexico: A Historical Perspective." Chicano Law Review. 2 (1976).
"Changes in Immigration Law and Nativism since 1924." American Jewish History. Dec. 1986. 159-180.
Gamio, Manuel. "Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant." Journal of Ethnic Studies.
Hirschman, Charles. "The Educational Enrollment of Immgrant Youth: A Test of the Segmented-Assimilation Hypothesis." Demography. Vol. 38, No. 3 (Aug. 2001) 317-336.
Zhou, Min. "Growing Up American: The Challenge Confronting Immigrant Children and Children of Immigrants." Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 23 (1997), 63-95.