Transforming America: perspectives on U.S. immigration by Michael C. LeMay (Editor)Call Number: Library Second Floor Stacks JV6483 .T73 2013
ISBN: 9780313396434
Publication Date: 2012
Description: Making of a nation of nations : the founding to 1865. Overview of immigration to the United States : founding to 1865 ; To ensure domestic tranquility : immigration and national defense. 1820-1865 ; Mushrooming cities : immigration and the beginnings of urbanization, 1790-1865 ; Toward a more perfect union : immigration and federalism / Common and uncommon schooling of immigrants to the United States, 1787-1865 / Political parties and immigration in the early republic / Naturalization law, immigration flow, and policy / Colonial borders, new world orders : servants, slaves, and the founding divisions pf labor in the nation of immigrants / Holy experiment : religion and immigration to the New World / Anti immigrant social movement : racial and religious undercurrents and their political effects /
Transformation of a nation of nations : 1865 to 1945. Overview of immigration to the United States, 1865-1945 ; Immigration and national defense, 1865-1945 ; Immigration and the rise of public health, 1865-1945 / Immigration and shipping lines, 1865-1945 / Melting the "unsightly indigestible lumps" : the education of eastern and southern European immigrants in the United States, 1880-1945 / Exploding cities : immigration and the urbanization of America, 1865-1945 / Angel island and the control of immigrant entry at San Francisco / Enacting racism into law : restrictionism and the Asian exclusion immigration laws / Ellis island station / Women immigrants and citizenship, 1865-1945 /
Immigration and superpower status : 1945 to the present. Overview of immigration to the United States, 1945-2010 / Immigration and education from 1945 to the present : a complicated and contentious connection / Search for talent / Policy conundrum of illegal immigration : exponential growth, 1970-2010 / Post 9/11 immigration policy, national security, and human rights implications for Muslim Americans / Immigration and the U.S. liberal welfare state : why mainstream theories fail to explain patterns of immigration and access to political mobilization / Gender, immigration, and U.S. labor market / Thwarting federal i immigration reform : the politics of welfare devolution in the United States / Attitudes toward immigrants and the immigration policy / Immigrant health and health care provisions in the United States : contemporary paradoxes and challenges / Remigration of immigrants to the United States : who remigrates and why ? / Where is immigration policy headed? Policy conflicts then and now /