student projects - links to remaining projects

Below are some projects that we weren't able to embed into the website:

• Humanizing Immigration
• puts a face on immigration by exploring the lives and stories of both documented and undcoumented immigrants from all walks of life
• Pinterest board
• uses a Pinterest to display images of various cultural groups and the varying themes of immigration including ethnic-cultural practice and assimilation
• Timeline of Flushing
• traces the history and settlement of Flushing, one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods of New York City
• Film submissions are available on the GC-Immigration's film database
• films ranged from Hollywood blockbusters such as Spanglish to independent and documentary films including Sin Nombre and Lost in Detention.

Projects not available online included

• interviews of and research into the use of undocumented immigrant labor in the 9/11 clean-up and the challenges faced by these workers given their status
• a magazine (complete with Editor's Note!) devoted to analyzing the experiences and stories of the undocumented
• research into the history and tensions wrought by gentrification in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York City
• in-depth interviews with three different immigrants from different backgrounds and arriving to the US at different historical periods
• a travel guide of the Lower East Side