Immigration by the Numbers — Off the Charts {I posted this video just to show that numbers is more significant in analysis and that numbers gives more visual impact. I -in no means- attend to uphold the aim of this speaker}.
The idea of website about immigration required indeed a thorough research and focus on the type of topic related to immigration. However, my idea on immigration web site would be statistical because numbers speaks on itself. Putting the historical facts on immigration growth on a single graph would help to understand the rout of each wave of immigration. For instance the first wave of immigration on 1840-1880 would be spread over a chart or a graph that sorted by the country of origin, the ages, their skills and so on. We can also input the social, economic and political changes in graph of each group in function of a graph which will automatically help us to compare and track the impact of each group on economy, social and political aspects as well. Such graph may trace types of skills and jobs each group occupied or was able to perform over certain period of time and how each group changes before and after. For instance 70% of the African American kids attended school in Philadelphia according to Chudacoff, if we collect all the statistical data on African American we can easily concluded the shifting of this group of people from one sector to another. And through the graph we can explore the trend of education impact on each group.
The immigration issue is vast topic that required at this point an accurate data and thorough research, but my focus would be on the education and religious side because these two models are the push and the pull factors for immigration to the present time. I would pursue a website that track immigrant who came with low skills and see how their life changes along their religious orientation before and after they exposed to the education environment including the generations after them.