Immigration : A Documentary and Reference Guide

by Cieslik, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780313349102
• ISBN10: 031334910X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

The uncomfortable contemporary realities of immigration, enmeshed as they are in economic, human rights, and national security issues, have once again propelled foreign immigration to the United States toward the top of the list of U.S. domestic policy concerns. Three respected authorities on immigration and international affairs here present a carefully calibrated history of U.S. immigration in primary source documents, tracing the roots of the current debate in the history of our profoundly divided and surprisingly cyclical response to foreign immigration. This book documents this national ambivalence, identifying the major waves of immigration and clarifying the ways in which the existing social and political fabric conditioned both the response to the newcomers and their prospects of eventual integration into American society.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Immigration from Colonial Times to the Revolution

Immigration and Americas Expansion in the 1800s

The Great Wave of Immigration from 1880 to 1920

Immigration to the United States during the 1920s and 1930s

Immigration in the Early Post-War Period

From the Quota System to the Preference System

The Growing Immigration Debate in the 1980s and 1990s

The Response to Immigration after September 11, 2001th

Mexico, Mexicans, and the U.S. Immigration Debate

The Security Debate and Immigration

The Judiciary and U.S. Immigration Policy

The Immigration Debate and the U.S. Economy

Immigration and the 2008 Presidential Campaign of 2008

Conclusion

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