A library of sources and information regarding regional efforts for welcoming immigrant and refugee populations, as well as general knowledge and demographics.
Boston Area Resources
Global Boston: A Portal to the Region's Immigrant Past and PresentGlobal Boston is a digital project based at Boston College that chronicles the history of immigration to greater Boston since the early nineteenth century. Examining different time periods, ethnic groups, and places of settlement, the site features capsule histories, photographs, maps, documents, videos, and oral histories documenting the history of a city and metro area where immigrants have long been a vital force in shaping urban life.
Building AAPI Power: A Profile of AAPI Communities in Greater Boston (Boston Indicators, Nov 2021)To help inform efforts to support our region’s diverse AAPI communities, the report aims to provide a more nuanced profile of AAPI communities than is often presented in the public discourse. Too often researchers report aggregate numbers for racial groups, rather than disaggregating by country of origin. For AAPI populations especially, using only aggregate data markedly skews analysis. While more than 80 percent of working-age Indian Americans in Greater Boston are college-educated, for
instance, only 18 percent of working-age Cambodian Americans are college-educated.
Changing Faces of Greater BostonChanging Faces of Greater Boston is a collaboration between Boston Indicators, the UMass Donahue Institute, the four free-standing research institutes at UMass Boston dedicated to the major communities of color (the Trotter Institute, the Gastón Institute, the Institute for Asian American Studies and the Institute for New England Native American Studies) and faculty from UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School.
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Boston University
Boston University Center on Forced DisplacementThe Center on Forced Displacement fosters interdisciplinary research and engagement with the global challenge of forced displacement. We bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers, practitioners, and artists from across schools and colleges at Boston University, around the country, and around the world.
Boston University School of Law Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking ProgramThe Boston University School of Law Immigrants’ Rights and Human Trafficking Program, launched in July 2017, combines BU Law’s nationally recognized Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and the Human Trafficking Clinic and creates an integrated new clinical program. In the Program, students learn practical legal skills while providing pro bono representation to vulnerable non-citizens facing deportation and survivors of human trafficking.
Migration TalesWebsite launched by BU students who showcase interviews with immigrants about where they come from and where they hope to go in their American journey.
Maps
Policy MapThis link opens in a new windowEasy-to-use online mapping and visualization tool. Downloadable U.S. demographic, economic and social data by city, state, zip code, county or census tract. Types of data include crime, housing, health, education and occupations, derived from both public and proprietary sources.
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public LibraryThe Boston Public Library is home to the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center which houses a unique collections of maps including; American Revolutionary War area maps, European Age of Discoveries maps, Colonial New England and Colonial Boston maps, Nautical charts from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, maps and atlases from the 16th to 18th century, 19th century county and town land ownership maps, various editions of some of the earliest printed maps, and MORE!