Immigration in the United States
By: edited by William Dvorak.
Contributors: Dvorak, William.
Series: The reference shelf -- v. 81, no. 4; Reference shelf -- v. 81, no. 4.
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780824210915
Subjects: United States -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The golden door : immigration at the dawn of the 20th century.; title: The great migration  -- John Elson ;; title: The growth of a nation  -- Michael Barone ;; title: A nation of immigrants  -- The Economist ;; title: Immigration  -- Oscar Handlin ;; title: Ghosts of freedom  -- Joe Baker; title: An era of uncertainty : immigration from 1965 to today.; title: The problem that refuses to leave  -- James W. Thomson ;; title: The realities of immigration  -- Linda Chavez ;; title: Latinos rise nationwide  -- A.R. Williams ;; title: My life in the promised land  -- as told to Tamar Brott; title: Stirring the melting pot : social and cultural change.; title: The Peter principles  -- Peter Roff ;; title: A tasty melting pot  -- Michelle Andrews ;; title: Throwing all cultures into the marketing pot  -- Hillary Chura ;; title: Movers & shakers  -- Joel Kotkin; title: The challenge of assimilation.; title: Becoming us  -- Alan Ehrenhalt ;; title: Recasting the melting pot  -- Roberto Suro ;; title: Hispanic immigrants seen as slow to assimilate into American society  -- Patrick McGee; title: Building a fence : security and fear on the border.; title: Life on the line  -- Philip Caputo ;; title: Brownsville's bad lie  -- Arian Campo-Flores, -- Andrew Murr ;; title: Keep out  -- Karen Olsson ;; title: Return to sender  -- Daren Briscoe; title: Opinions on immigration, legal and illegal.; title: Immigration : the sleeping time bomb  -- Robert J. Bresler ;; title: Give us still your masses--  ; title: Jack Levin, -- Gordana Rabrenovic ;; title: No human being is illegal  -- César Cuauhtémoc Garcéxia Hernández ;; title: Society must stop giving benefits to illegal immigrants  -- Dimitrij Krynsky; title: Federal policy and the future of immigration.; title: U.S. helped create migrant flow  -- Erica Dahl-Bredine ;; title: It starts in Mexico  -- Tim Padgett ;; title: Who we are now -- Jon Meacham.