CLIP ESL Library Orientation: CLIP Teter: Immigration

Suggested keywords for your topics:

1. Health inspections at Ellis Island

   • "Ellis Island" "health inspection"

   • "Ellis Island" "immigrant experience"

   • "Ellis Island" "health hazards"

   • "immigrant health"

2. The Journey across the Atlantic (Pacific)

   • "journey to America"

   • "the immigrant journey"

   • "steamboats"

   • "immigrant vessels"

   • "American passage"

3. Living in the Lower East Side (finding work/apartment)

   • "immigrant life"

   • "city life" or "urban life"

   • "ghettos"

   • "tenements"

4. Anti-immigration: The Chinese Exclusion Act (19th-Century America)

   • "anti-immigrant sentiments" 

   • "nativism"

   • "antisemitism"

   • "anti-chinese"

   • "opposition to immigration"

5. Forced assimilation: English instruction for immigrants

   • "immigrants" and "language"

   • "cultural assimilation"

   • "naturalization" and "nationality"

   • "forced assimilation" and "immigrants"

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