Research

Books available at Hartford Public Library:

• Aquí me quedo: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut by Ruth Glasser.
• L'Emigrazione Floridiana ad Hartford Latina, Guiseppe; Et Al. (Auser Floridia; 2005; Ex-Library)   
• How the Other Half Lived: a People's Guide to American Historic Sites by Philip Burnham
• Making a Life, Building a Community : a History of the Jews of Hartford by David G. Dalin and Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Soldiers of the Soil by Fay Clarke Johnson

Immigrant Experience

• The New Americans
• Living Voices
• Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
  A web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documenting voluntary immigration to the US.

Refugees

Refugee Cultural Profiles


Learn about the history and culture of our newest arrivals - Burmese, Somali Bantus,  Liberians, Sudanese, Meskhetian Turks ...Click Here 

Reports & Statistics

• Casa de Maryland
• Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIRUS
• Grant Makers Concerned with Immigration and Refugees GCIR
• Immigration in Connecticut: A Report
• Immigration Explorer Interactive Map: 1880-2000
• Urban Institute
• Migrant Information Source
• National Immigration Law Center
• Rand Immigration Statistics
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  
  

Last update: February 4, 2011