Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Vietnamese immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions,primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.

It's 1850, and you are fleeing war and starvation in your homeland of China. You sell everything you have to go to a place in America called Gold Mountain, better known as California. Do you try to strike it rich in the gold mines of California? or..., Will you seek your fortune in San Francisco's Chinatown? or..., Will you work as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad?

Explores Japanese immigration to the United States from the 1880s to the present, and looks at the contributions of Japanese Americans to the culture of the United States.

Relates the story of immigration to America through the voices and stories of those who passed through Ellis Island, from its opening in 1892 to the release of the last detainee in 1954.