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American Immigration After 1996
The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker programs and focusing on the economic benefits of immigration, and the other proposing greater physical...
Frontiers of Fear
Immigration and Insecurity in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On both sides of the Atlantic, restrictive immigration policies have been framed as security imperatives since the 1990s. This trend accelerated in the aftermath of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks in Europe. In Frontiers of Fear, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia raises two central questions with...
Illegal Immigration: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A valuable resource for high school, college, and general readers, this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive examination of illegal immigration in America, addressing its complex history, comparing its occurrence today with the past, and explaining why a solution is so difficult to enact.
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Strange Neighbors
The Role of States in Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since its founding, the U.S. has struggled with
issues of federalism and states’ rights. In almost every area of law, from
abortion to zoning, conflicts arise between the states and the federal
government over which entity is best suited to create and enforce laws. In the
last decade, immigration...
Punishing Immigrants
Policy, Politics, and Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Arizona’s controversial new immigration bill is just the latest of many steps in the new criminalization of immigrants. While many cite the presumed criminality of illegal aliens as an excuse for ever-harsher immigration policies, it has in fact been well-established that immigrants commit less...
The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
Gender, Race, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy
In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by...
Immigration, Social Integration and Crime
A Cross-National Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The problem of social control has constituted the acid test for the entire issue of immigration and integration. But whilst recent studies show that the crime rate for non-nationals is three, four or more, times higher than that of the country’s 'own' citizens, academic interest in these statistics...
Foreign Relations
American Immigration in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign...
by Edwin Gania
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
A step-by-step guide to visiting and immigrating to the United States
Visiting and immigrating to the United States can be a complicated and confusing process. There are many rules and new procedures, and finding information you can trust that gets you the visa you need can seem overwhelming.
Written...
Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens
The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Model Immigrants...
Ethnic Americans
A History of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
For more than three decades, Ethnic Americans has been hailed as a classic history of immigration to America. Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English...
At America's Gates
Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese...
Arizona Firestorm
Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
In 2010, the governor of Arizona signed a controversial immigration bill (SB 1070) that led to a news media frenzy, copycat bills in twenty-two states, and a U.S. Supreme Court battle that put Arizona at the cross-hairs of the immigration debate. Arizona Firestorm brings together well-respected experts...
Open Borders
The Case Against Immigration Controls
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
'A very impressive achievement.' Ann Dummett, founder, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants'Teresa Hayter has written a formidably comprehensive book on the history, mechanisms, and debates surrounding immigration controls in Britain ... The crux of Hayter's argument is that immigration controls...