Becoming an American: The Immigrant Experience (Part 3)

Immigration to America is a unique phenomenon in world history. No other country has ever absorbed so many people from so many different places. And no other country throughout world history has taken so much of its identity, energy, and spirit from immigrants. The American spirit is the immigrant spirit; the American Dream is the immigrant dream. It is no exaggeration to say that without immigrants, the United States could not exist.

In the Becoming an American: The Immigrant Experience DVD, the history of U.S. immigration is told in the words of the people who lived it. A few of the speakers are modern-day immigrants—real people, recounting their own experiences. The "historical" immigrants are composite characters, not actual figures. But the narratives they tell are true, based upon actual immigrant stories.

Each of these composite characters represents a distinct period in the history of U.S. immigration. The periods are set off from one another by changes in the laws governing immigration, changes in the composition of the immigrant population (e.g., new countries of origin), and changes in the sheer numbers of immigrants.

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