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• Tales of the Fish Patrol (London: W. Heinemann, 1914), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of the Fish Patrol (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Jack London, illust. by George Varian (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Chikago: Nykyajan Romaani ("The Jungle" in Finnish; Porvoo: WSOY, 1906), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by O. A. Joutsen (Gutenberg text)
• Hungry Hearts (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), by Anzia Yezierska (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Manhattan Transfer (first edition; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1925), by John Dos Passos (multiple formats at Google)
• Raistas (The Jungle) (Lithuanian translation; Chicago: Spauda "Lietuvos", c1908), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Jonas Naujokas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan (Gutenberg text)

• Purple Springs (Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1921), by Nellie L. McClung (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Second Chance (Toronto: William Briggs, 1910), by Nellie L. McClung (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Sowing Seeds in Danny (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Nellie L. McClung
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• My Ántonia (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1994), by Willa Cather, ed. by Charles Mignon, contrib. by James Leslie Woodress, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (illustrated HTML at unl.edu)
• My Ántonia (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), by Willa Cather, illust. by Wladyslaw T. Benda (HTML and PDF at Elegant Ebooks)
• My Antonia, by Willa Cather (Gutenberg text)
• O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
  • illustrated HTML at unl.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
• The Scarlet Letter (Ticknor and Fields edition, 1850), by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (illustrated edition; New York: G. H. Doran Co., n.d.), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illust. by Hugh Thomson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Old Father Antic (written under "Lars Lawrence" pseudonym; New York: International Publishers, c1961), by Philip Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Out of the Dust (written under "Lars Lawrence" pseudonym; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1956), by Philip Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morning, Noon, and Night (written under "Lars Lawrence" pseudonym; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1954), by Philip Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of Khalid (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by Ameen Fares Rihani, illust. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1926), by Gertrude Stein (photocopy scan: page images at HathiTrust)
• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: D. and J. Sadlier, 1861), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Bessy Conway: or, The Irish Girl in America (New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, n.d.), by Mrs. J. Sadlier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The City of Masks (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1918), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by May Wilson Preston
  • illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Making of Americans (first book version 1925; unclear if this edition depends on the 1934 version still under US copyright), by Gertrude Stein (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience--Questions and Answers, by Kevin F. McCarthy and Georges Vernez (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• The China Challenge: Sino-Canadian Relations in the 21st Century (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, c2011), ed. by Huhua Cao and Vivienne Poy (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2005), ed. by Wisdom Tettey and Korbla P. Puplampu, contrib. by Ali A. Abdi, Henry M. Codjoe, George J. Sefa Dei, John E. Jayfron, Martha K. Kumsa, Samuel A. Laryea, Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika, Denise L. Spitzer, and Adenike O. Yesufu (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2009), ed. by Samuel Martínez (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Mr. Tulsi's Store: A Fijian journey (first published 2001; this edition c2013), by Brij V. Lal (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• A Nation of Immigrants? A Brief Demographic History of Britain (c2007), by David Conway (PDF at Civitas)
• What's New About New Immigrants in Twenty-First Century Britain? (York, UK: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, c2006), by Robert Berkeley, Omar Khan, and Mohan Ambikaipaker (PDF in the UK)
• Do We Need Mass Immigration? The Economic, Demographic, Environmental, Social and Developmental Arguments Against Large-Scale Net Immigration to Britain (c2002), by Anthony Browne (PDF at Civitas)

• Sojourners and Settlers: Chinese Migrants in Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1980), by Clarence Elmer Glick (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Chaim I. Waxman (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• The Settlers at Home, by Harriet Martineau
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• "Pennsylvania Dutch" and Other Essays (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1872), by Phebe Earle Gibbons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Insecurity (c2014), ed. by Thanh-Dam Truong, D. Gasper, Jeff Handmaker, and Sylvia I. Bergh (PDF files with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Immigration: The Demographic and Economic Facts (Washington: Cato Institute, National Immigration Forum, et al., c1995), by Julian Lincoln Simon (PDF at ed.gov)
• Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants (2015), by United States Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)
• A Culture of Cruelty: Abuse and Impunity in Short-Term U.S. Border Patrol Custody (2011), by No More Deaths (Organization) (PDF with commentary at nomoredeaths.org)
• Becoming an American: Immigration and Immigrant Policy (final commission report to Congress; 1997), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Becoming an American: Immigration and Immigrant Policy (1997), by U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (PDF files at Texas)
• To Be An American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Bill Ong Hing (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The American Foreign-Born Workers (New York: Workers Party of America, ca. 1923), by Clarissa S. Ware
  • page images at Pitt
  • reformatted transcription of main text and charts: PDF at marxists.org
• The Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States (pre-publication version), by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)
• Friendly Words to the Foreign Born: Instructions Given to Applicants for Naturalization in Court at Philadelphia (Loyalty Leaflet #1; Philadelphia: Committee on Public Information, 1917), by Joseph Buffington (page images here at Penn)
• Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making (New Haven: Yale University Press, et al., 1920), by Samuel Peter Orth (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• National Unity Through Intercultural Education (Education and National Defense series pamphlet #10; Washington: GPO, 1942), by Rachel Davis DuBois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americans of Foreign Birth in the War Program for Victory, by Earl Grant Harrison (PDF page images at MSU)
• The Confession of a Hyphenated American, by Edward Alfred Steiner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1914), by Mary Antin, illust. by Joseph Stella
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
• The Immigrant Press and its Control (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Robert Ezra Park
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Native-Americanism Detected and Exposed (Boston: Printed for the author, 1845), by Richard Hildreth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• American Institutions and Their Preservation (New York, c1927), by William W. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States: Locked Away: Immigration Detainees in Jails in the United States, by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML at hrw.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.