Students research American immigrant experiences at the National Archives

In fall semester 2019, Dr. Krystyn Moon and a group of fourteen students spent a semester of in-depth research about the experiences of various immigrant groups to the United States. Their work included three trips to Washington, D.C. to conduct research in the records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the National Archives. The students worked in teams to produce three research papers–“The South Asian Immigrant Experience in the Early Twentieth Century,” “Medical Exams at El Paso’s Immigration Station,” and “Paper Sons and Prostitution: Habeas Corpus at Angel Island” –which they published on their course website  History 449: American Immigrant Experience