Quick links to resources on ethnic and immigrant topics, including those developed by The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies prior to its 2002 merger into the Society:

New Immigrants Initiative

• African
• Arab
• Latino

Publications and Essays

• African Immigrants Community Profile
• Latino Immigrants Community Profile
  
• Emigration U.S.A.
• Destination U.S.A.
• Philadelphia's Ellis Island

Online Exhibits

• Latino Philadelphia
• Strangers in the Land of Strangers
• Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience
• Philadelphia's Chinatown:  Building the Gold Mountain
• Ethnic Weddings
• Italian-American Traditions
• The Japanese American Experience
• Preserving Polonia in America
• Rites of Passage
• Freedom for Some:  Japanese American Internment Experience

Collections

• Balch Manuscript Guide

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