American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction 9780199715817, 0199715815, 9780199831562, 0199831564, 978-0-19-533178-3
"The United States has experienced voluntary immigration of unprecedented size and diversity throughout its colonia
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English Pages 146 Year 2011
Table of contents :
Content: Introduction : mass immigration, past and present --
Part I. The law of immigration and the legal construction of citizenship. 1. Unregulated immigration and its opponents: from Colonial America to the mid-nineteenth century --
2. Regulation and exclusion --
3. Removing barriers and debating consequences in the mid-twentieth century --
Part II. Emigration and immigration: from the international migrants' perspective. 4. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1820-1924 --
5. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1970 to the present --
Part III. The dialogue of ethnicity and assimilation --
6. The widening mainstream --
7. The future of assimilation --
Conclusion.
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