Immigration in the United States / edited by William Dvorak.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
H.W. Wilson Co.,
2009.
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| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 81, no. 4. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 191 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The golden door : immigration at the dawn of the 20th century. The great migration / John Elson ; The growth of a nation / Michael Barone ; A nation of immigrants / The Economist ; Immigration / Oscar Handlin ; Ghosts of freedom / Joe Baker
- An era of uncertainty : immigration from 1965 to today. The problem that refuses to leave / James W. Thomson ; The realities of immigration / Linda Chavez ; Latinos rise nationwide / A.R. Williams ; My life in the promised land / as told to Tamar Brott
- Stirring the melting pot : social and cultural change. The Peter principles / Peter Roff ; A tasty melting pot / Michelle Andrews ; Throwing all cultures into the marketing pot / Hillary Chura ; Movers & shakers / Joel Kotkin
- The challenge of assimilation. Becoming us / Alan Ehrenhalt ; Recasting the melting pot / Roberto Suro ; Hispanic immigrants seen as slow to assimilate into American society / Patrick McGee
- Building a fence : security and fear on the border. Life on the line / Philip Caputo ; Brownsville's bad lie / Arian Campo-Flores and Andrew Murr ; Keep out / Karen Olsson ; Return to sender / Daren Briscoe
- Opinions on immigration, legal and illegal. Immigration : the sleeping time bomb / Robert J. Bresler ; Give us still your masses-- / Jack Levin and Gordana Rabrenovic ; No human being is illegal / César Cuauhtémoc Garcéxia Hernández ; Society must stop giving benefits to illegal immigrants / Dimitrij Krynsky
- Federal policy and the future of immigration. U.S. helped create migrant flow / Erica Dahl-Bredine ; It starts in Mexico / Tim Padgett ; Who we are now / Jon Meacham.