ISBN:
9786613097774
,
128309777X
,
9780199715817
,
9781283097772
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 146 S.)
,
Ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Very short introductions
Parallel Title:
Print version American Immigration
DDC:
304.8/73
Keywords:
Cultural pluralism
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
History
Abstract:
Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. A thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and the motivations and experiences of the migrants themselves, this book offers a compact but wide-ranging look at one of America's persistent hot-button issues. Historian David Gerber begins by examining the many legal efforts to curb immigration and to define who is and is not an American, ranging from the Naturali
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:Introduction -- Section One The Law of Immigration and the Legal Construction of Citizenship -- Chapter One Unregulated Immigration and Its Opponents: from Colonial America to the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter Two Regulation and Exclusion -- Chapter Three Reform in the Mid- Twentieth Century: Removing Barriers, Debating Consequences -- Section Two Emigration and Immigration: From the International Migrants' Perspective -- Introduction -- Chapter Four Mass Population Movements and Resettlement, 1820-1924 -- Chapter Five Mass Population Movements and Resettlement, 1970 to the Present: Continuity and Change -- Section Three The Dialogue of Ethnicity and Assimilation -- Chapter Six The Widening Mainstream -- Chapter Seven The Future of Assimilation -- Conclusion -- Further Reading.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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