Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Americans in Waiting
The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over...
by Arthur L. Rizer III
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Immigration law is unique in its national security applications because, while it may be used as a mechanism for keeping the enemy out, it is also the apparatus for entry into the United States. This book examines this topic first by conducting a historical overview of using immigration law for national security purposes, and then exploring the laws and cases themselves.
Enforcing Immigration Law at the State and Local Levels
A Public Policy Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Almost 12 million out-of-status aliens currently reside in the United States. The federal government does not require state and local agencies to carry out specific immigration enforcement actions; however, comprehensive immigration reform may do so in the near future. This paper describes variations in enforcement approaches and making their pros and cons more explicit.
Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant
The Politics of Immigration Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2008
While the United States cherishes its identity as a nation of immigrants, the country’s immigration policies are historically characterized by cycles of openness and xenophobia. Outbursts of anti-immigrant sentiment among political leaders and in the broader public are fueled by a debate over who...
Those Damned Immigrants
America’s Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the
dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after
Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant,
was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his...
White Backlash
Immigration, Race, and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences,...
National Insecurities
Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical context....
Coming to America (Second Edition)
A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
One of our generation’s best historical accounts of immigration in the United States from the earliest colonial days
“Encyclopedic in scope, yet lively and provocative…. One of those rare book that will serve experts and the general public equally well.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Former...
100 Questions and Answers About Immigrants to the U.S.: Immigration policies, politics and trends and how they affect families, jobs and demographics
The facts about U.S. immigration patterns, motives, effects and language, history, culture, customs, and issues of health, wealth, education, deportation, citizenship and criminal justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about U.S. immigrants and immigration in everyday conversation. It has answers about identity, language, religion, culture, customs, social norms, economics, politics, education, work, families and food. It also covers contemporary...
Working the Boundaries
Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation;...
The British Dream
Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of postwar immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over the country and a wealth of statistical evidence, he paints a striking picture of how Britain has been transformed by immigration...
by Lowell Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Lowell Green presents a powerful persuasive well-documented and incredibly well researched argument for a substantial reduction in Canada's yearly intake of immigrants and refugees and an immediate halt to multiculturalism. Lowell minces no words in demonstrating how immigration has changed from...
by Shannon Latkin Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Over the course of the 20th century, there have been three primary narratives of American national identity: the melting pot, Anglo-Protestantism, and cultural pluralism/multi-culturalism. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what shaped each of these imaginings, when each came...
Debating American Identity
Southwestern Statehood and Mexican Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
In the early 1900s, Teddy Roosevelt, New Mexico governors Miguel Antonio Otero and Octaviano Larrazolo, and Arizona legislator Carl Hayden—along with the voices of less well-known American women and men—promoted very different views on what being an American meant. Their writings and speeches...