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Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence

Immigration to Rhode Island

by Patrick T. Conley, William J. Jennings Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
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Immigration

Tough Questions, Direct Answers

by Dale Hanson Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2014

Granted the Digital Book World QED Seal for quality in ebook design How can we be sure terrorists aren't entering our country? What does it mean to be a citizen? Do immigrants help or hurt the economy? What's wrong with calling someone an illegal immigrant? In this Skeptic's Guide™ Dale Hanson Bourke...
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Illegals

The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border

by Jon E. Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010

"The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive." ?Ronald Reagan America is under siege, facing a hostile invasion on its own soil that most of its citizens know nothing about: the invaders are illegal immigrants, their battleground...
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Dying to Live

A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid

by Joseph Nevins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013

Book will be published on May 1st, 2008, the third anniversary of “A Day Without A Mexican,” the major national immigrant protests. The complex topic of immigration becomes a visceral experience for the reader through the telling of one man’s story, and his ultimate death. Congress will likely...
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Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond

The War On "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary

by Joseph Nevins
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

This is a major revision and update of Nevins’ earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up...
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Immigrant City

Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921

by Donald B. Cole
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the...
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by Anita Biase
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008

Citizenship in the United States is the legal status given to a legal member of the country. It involves rights, duties, and privileges and is one of the most coveted gifts that the U.S. government can bestow on a person and the most important immigration benefit that the United States Citizenship...
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by George J. Borjas
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014

Nearly 3% of the world's population no longer live in the country where they were born. George Borjas synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows, and lays out with clarity a full spectrum of topics with crucial implications for framing debates over immigration.
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Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States

The View from Prince George's County, Maryland

by Judith Noemí Freidenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1968 to 2009. The life course trajectories of seventy individuals and their networks,...
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Hispanic Immigrant Literature

El Sueño del Retorno

by Nicolás Kanellos
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in...
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Opening the Floodgates

Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws

by Kevin R. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007

Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people into this country. Open migration policies deserve fuller analysis, as evidenced by President Barack...
Cover of ROMANCING THE GREEN CARD: How to get your foreign spouse who is a legal U.S. resident a green card.
by S. Siporin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014

Who Will Benefit from Reading this Book?This book is a short but clear roadmap that describes how the foreign spouse of an American citizen who resides legally in this country can obtain a green card. It applies only to a foreign spouse who has legal status. It is an extremely valuable resource...
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Following Father Chiniquy

Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois

by Caroline B Brettell
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

Winner, ISHS Certificate of Excellence, 2016 In the late 1850s and early 1860s, the attention of the Catholic and Protestant religious communities around the world focused on a few small settlements of French Canadian immigrants in northeastern Illinois. Soon after arriving in their new home,...
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Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees

Legal Issues, Clinical Skills and Advocacy

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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008

"This book is an optimal tool for instructors and students of graduate classes in social work and related disciplines." --Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health "I applaud social work students, professors, and social workers who seek to serve and empower the immigrant...
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