Immigration /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Greenhaven Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of immigration in the United States
- THE FIRST GREAT WAVE: EUROPEAN EMIGRATION FORM 1830 TO 1880: Seeking economic opportunity in the United States / Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers
- The business of encouraging immigration / Carol Wittke
- European left home for many reasons / Maldwyn Allen Jones
- Immigrant destinations / Maxine Seller
- The rise of anti-immigrant sentiment / Roger Daniels
- THE SECOND GREAT WAVE: EUROPEAN EMIGRATION FORM 1880 TO 1924: Immigrants and their accomplishments / John F. Kennedy
- Ellis Island: the first stop for most immigrants / Georges Perec with Robert Bober
- Settlement and work for the new immigrants / Sean Dennis Cashman
- Assimilating the new immigrants / Richard Krickus
- The challenges of fitting in / Philip Taylor
- EMIGRATION FROM ASIA: America wanted Asian workers / Ronald Takaki
- Chinese and Japanese emigrants find their way / Robert A. Wilson and Bill Hosokawa
- Chinese immogrants adapted well / Jack Chen
- The Japanese were unique among immigrant groups / Thomas Sowell
- Americans from Asia: the Filipinos / H. Brett Melendy
- EMIGRATION FROM MEXICO: Moving from Mexican to American control / James Diego Vigil
- Many Mexicans were only temporary residents / Lawrence H. Fuchs
- Mexican emigrants could only partially assimilate / Richard Griswold Castillo and Arnoldo De Leon
- THE OPEN DOOR CLOSES: Emigration from China is restricted first / Ellis Case
- The rising anti-immigrant tide / David M. Reimers
- Restricting immigration was good for America / Roy Beck
- World War I encouraged immigration restrictions / John Higham.