Immigration

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• Asociacion de Vendedores Ambulantes (Street Vendors Association) Records: includes materials created or collected by the Asociacion de Vendedores Ambulantes [A.V.A.] also known as the Street Vendors Association, an organization, which mobilized the street vendors fight to legalize street vending in Los Angeles. See more info.


• Central American Solidarity Movements Collections: several collections with clippings, reports, and other materials on liberation movements in Central American countries, including El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and more.


• CISPES (Committee in Soiidarity with the People of El Salvador) Collection: selected records on this organization, which conducts programs and campaigns in support of freedom and democracy in El Salvador.


• Frontlines Photo Collection: photos from the bi-monthly Frontlines newspaper, featuring photos of El Salvador and Nicaragua, and more See more info.


• KIWA Collection: papers of the Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, which fights for poor, immigrant workers.


• Iran-Contra Gate Collection: clippings from 1982 to 1991.


• L.A. Subject Files: under several headings, including Demographics, Immigration, and Neighborhoods; includes reports, clippings, flyers, and more.


• International Posters: posters from countries around the world, available for exhibits.


• Periodicals: including Immigration Newsletter (1975), Immigration Law Bulletin (1981), and Immigration Research Report (1987).


• Proposition 187: Your Life, Your Future, a documentary on CaliforniaÕs Prop. 187, which denied public benefits to people who are undocumented (1994).

• Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Southern California: edited by Marta Lopez-Garza and David R. Diaz (2002).


• Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the Crack Cocaine Explosion: by Gary Webb (1999)


• L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement: by Ruth Milkman (2006)


• Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform: by Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis (2006)


• Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression: by Douglas Monroy (1999)


• Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles: by Nora Hamilton and Norma Stoltz Chinchilla (2002)

See also material from our archives on immigration.