America: History and Life is usually the best place to begin searching for scholarly articles in English on immigration to America. It covers articles, book reviews, and dissertations on all periods of North American history published since 1964.
Use the Subject Browser in these databases to select your subject term(s). You can narrow your search by adding a keyword or using more than one subject term. Your search results display as short records, which you can expand by clicking on “Expand Record” at the bottom of the record on the right. The full entry shows you an abstract or summary of the article. Click on the “Discover” icon to find out if a record links to the full text of the article.
There are several major collections of full-text electronic journals. In these databases you can browse individual issues of journals, or you can do a search across the entire database.
Some of the titles you will find in JSTOR:
Here you will find, for example,