Immigration
By: Jeff Hay, book editor
Series: Turning points; Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780737706383; 9780737706390
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: A brief history of immigration in the United States; title: THE FIRST GREAT WAVE: EUROPEAN EMIGRATION FORM 1830 TO 1880: Seeking economic opportunity in the United States / Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers; title: The business of encouraging immigration / Carol Wittke; title: European left home for many reasons / Maldwyn Allen Jones; title: Immigrant destinations / Maxine Seller; title: The rise of anti-immigrant sentiment / Roger Daniels; title: THE SECOND GREAT WAVE: EUROPEAN EMIGRATION FORM 1880 TO 1924: Immigrants and their accomplishments / John F. Kennedy; title: Ellis Island: the first stop for most immigrants / Georges Perec with Robert Bober; title: Settlement and work for the new immigrants / Sean Dennis Cashman; title: Assimilating the new immigrants / Richard Krickus; title: The challenges of fitting in / Philip Taylor; title: EMIGRATION FROM ASIA: America wanted Asian workers / Ronald Takaki; title: Chinese and Japanese emigrants find their way / Robert A. Wilson and Bill Hosokawa; title: Chinese immogrants adapted well / Jack Chen; title: The Japanese were unique among immigrant groups / Thomas Sowell; title: Americans from Asia: the Filipinos / H. Brett Melendy; title: EMIGRATION FROM MEXICO: Moving from Mexican to American control / James Diego Vigil; title: Many Mexicans were only temporary residents / Lawrence H. Fuchs; title: Mexican emigrants could only partially assimilate / Richard Griswold Castillo and Arnoldo De Leon; title: THE OPEN DOOR CLOSES: Emigration from China is restricted first / Ellis Case; title: The rising anti-immigrant tide / David M. Reimers; title: Restricting immigration was good for America / Roy Beck; title: World War I encouraged immigration restrictions / John Higham.