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BE21 - Professor Martha Dressler: Keywords

This purpose of this guide is to provide a list of sources related to finding immigration information for primary and secondary sources in comparing the novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith .

Keywords

The American Dream - Old World vs. Life in America

Assimilation

Border family separations

Donald Trump's administration policy - immigration

United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects

Irish immigration - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Ethnicity identity immigration - Examples African Americans - segregation - Asian, Japanese internment camps, Jewish identity,

Ethnic communities - New York

Immigration response after 9/11

Illegal immigration

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - (DACA)

Sports - Soccer 

Undocumented immigrants