ABSTRACT
Thoroughly revised and expanded, this is the definitive reference on American immigration from both historic and contemporary perspectives. It traces the scope and sweep of U.S. immigration from the earliest settlements to the present, providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to all aspects of this critically important subject.
Every major immigrant group and every era in U.S. history are fully documented and examined through detailed analysis of social, legal, political, economic, and demographic factors. Hot-topic issues and controversies - from Amnesty to the U.S.-Mexican Border - are covered in-depth. Archival and contemporary photographs and illustrations further illuminate the information provided. And dozens of charts and tables provide valuable statistics and comparative data, both historic and current. A special feature of this edition is the inclusion of more than 80 full-text primary documents from 1787 to 2013 - laws and treaties, referenda, Supreme Court cases, historical articles, and letters.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|94 pages
Causes, Processes, and Patterns
entry |7 pages
America's Image in the Global Imagination
entry |7 pages
Chain Migration
entry |6 pages
Economic Pull Factors
entry |6 pages
Economic Push Factors
entry |6 pages
Natural Disasters and Environmental Crises
entry |8 pages
Political, Ethnic, Religious, and Gender-Related Persecution
entry |7 pages
Wars and Civil Unrest
entry |5 pages
Adoption
entry |4 pages
Human Smuggling and the Business of Illegal Immigration
entry |8 pages
Immigrant Aid Societies and Organizations
entry |4 pages
Marriage and Spousal Immigration
entry |3 pages
Sponsorship
entry |5 pages
Census, U.S.
entry |9 pages
Demographic and Statistical Trends
entry |9 pages
Settlement Patterns
entry |6 pages
Return Migration
part 2|213 pages
History
entry |3 pages
Native Americans
entry |5 pages
Early Spanish Settlers
entry |8 pages
Puritans and Other Religious Groups
entry |4 pages
Indentured Servants
entry |6 pages
Free Immigration
entry |6 pages
Slave Trade
entry |6 pages
Immigrants and the American Revolution
entry |3 pages
Early Nineteenth-Century Immigration
entry |4 pages
Internal Migration to 1865
entry |5 pages
The Great Irish Immigration
entry |5 pages
German-Speaking Political Refugees and Economic Migrants
entry |4 pages
Nativism and KnowNothings
entry |8 pages
Chinese and the Chinese Exclusion Act
entry |4 pages
Immigrants and the Civil War
entry |4 pages
Immigrants in the American West
entry |6 pages
The "New Immigration"
entry |5 pages
Immigration Stations
entry |7 pages
Living Conditions: The Urban Experience
entry |7 pages
Industrial Labor
entry |7 pages
Culture and Assimilation: Hybrid Identities
entry |6 pages
Nativist Reaction
entry |7 pages
Immigrants and the First Red Scare
entry |5 pages
Immigrants and Espionage
entry |7 pages
Restrictive Legislation and Quotas
entry |6 pages
War Refugees
entry |6 pages
Internment of Japanese and Others During World War II
entry |8 pages
Latino Immigration
entry |3 pages
Statistical Overview, 1965-2000
entry |6 pages
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
entry |7 pages
Southeast Asian Refugee Crisis, 1975-1980
entry |11 pages
Immigrants from the Developing World: Coming to America, 1965-1990s
entry |5 pages
Immigrants from the Developing World: Life in America, 1965-1990s
entry |5 pages
Collapse of Communism and Its Effects, 1980s-1990s
entry |6 pages
Immigration Reform, 1980s-1990s
entry |7 pages
Immigration Agencies and Enforcement: The INS and Its Predecessors
entry |7 pages
Immigrant–Minority Relations, 1965-2001
entry |4 pages
Anti–Immigrant Backlash, 1965-2001
entry |2 pages
Statistical Overview, Since 2000
entry |3 pages
Immigration Law and Enforcement, Impact of 9/11
entry |3 pages
Illegal Immigrants and Amnesty Policy, Impact of 9/11
entry |8 pages
Immigration Agencies and Government Organizations, Post-9/11
entry |4 pages
Controlling the U.S.-Mexican Border
entry |4 pages
Immigration Legislation, Post-9/11
entry |3 pages
Anti-Muslim Xenophobia
entry |2 pages
Anti–Illegal Immigration Policies and Politics at the State and Local Levels, Post–9/11
part 3|321 pages
Society, Culture, and Politics
entry |6 pages
Children and Adolescents
entry |7 pages
Connections to Homeland
entry |4 pages
Elderly
entry |5 pages
Ethnic Intermarriage
entry |6 pages
Family
entry |9 pages
Gender
entry |8 pages
Segmented Assimilation
entry |5 pages
Art and Architecture
entry |4 pages
English as a Second Language
entry |5 pages
Film and Broadcast Media
entry |3 pages
Food
entry |5 pages
Genealogy: Searching for Roots
entry |3 pages
Internet
entry |7 pages
Language
entry |5 pages
Literature in English
entry |7 pages
Media Portrayal
entry |5 pages
Music
entry |7 pages
Popular Culture
entry |5 pages
Press
entry |7 pages
Sports
entry |5 pages
Theater
entry |9 pages
Agriculture
entry |4 pages
Economic Benefits and Costs of Immigration
entry |6 pages
Entrepreneurship
entry |4 pages
Home-Country Economy, Impact on
entry |4 pages
Housing
entry |7 pages
Income and Wealth
entry |5 pages
Labor Markets
entry |6 pages
Poverty
entry |8 pages
Professionals and the Brain Drain
entry |8 pages
Service Sector
entry |7 pages
Sweatshops and Factories
entry |9 pages
Underground Economy
entry |7 pages
Unions and Union Organizing
entry |4 pages
Bilingual Education
entry |5 pages
Health Care
entry |5 pages
Higher Education and Science
entry |4 pages
Immigrants and Health
entry |5 pages
Mental Health
entry |5 pages
Public Schools
entry |7 pages
Social Services
entry |4 pages
Welfare and Public Benefits
entry |7 pages
Admission Laws: Pre-Restriction Era, 1800s-1910s
entry |6 pages
Admission Laws: Restriction Era, 1920s-Present
entry |6 pages
Amnesty
entry |6 pages
Anti-Immigrant Politics
entry |5 pages
Civil Rights of Immigrants
entry |5 pages
Crime, Immigrant
entry |3 pages
Illegal Immigrant Identification
entry |10 pages
Immigrant Politics: Activism
entry |9 pages
Immigrant Politics: Electoral Politics
entry |8 pages
Immigrant Politics: The Home Country
entry |5 pages
Immigrant Status, Rights, and Privileges
entry |3 pages
Local Governments and Immigration
entry |8 pages
Public Opinion and Immigration
entry |3 pages
State Governments and Immigration
entry |5 pages
Buddhism
entry |7 pages
Catholicism
entry |4 pages
Eastern Rite Christianity
entry |7 pages
Evangelical Christianity
entry |5 pages
Hinduism and Sikhism
entry |5 pages
Islam
entry |5 pages
Judaism
entry |4 pages
Protestantism, Mainline
part 4|225 pages
Nations of Origin and U.S. Destinations
entry |4 pages
Africa, East
entry |5 pages
Africa, Southern
entry |8 pages
Africa, West
entry |5 pages
African Americans
entry |8 pages
Andean Countries
entry |3 pages
Armenia
entry |7 pages
Asia, South and Central
entry |5 pages
Asia, Southeast
entry |3 pages
Brazil and the Southern Cone
entry |5 pages
Canada
entry |5 pages
Caribbean, English-Speaking
entry |5 pages
Caribbean, French-Speaking
entry |9 pages
Central America
entry |6 pages
China
entry |9 pages
Cuba
entry |7 pages
Dominican Republic
entry |7 pages
Europe, Eastern and Central
entry |7 pages
Europe, Northern and Western
entry |4 pages
Germany
entry |6 pages
Great Britain
entry |5 pages
Greece
entry |6 pages
Iran
entry |5 pages
Ireland
entry |4 pages
Italy
entry |5 pages
Japan
entry |4 pages
Jews
entry |7 pages
Korea
entry |9 pages
Mexico
entry |6 pages
Middle East and North Africa
entry |6 pages
Oceania
entry |7 pages
Philippines
entry |4 pages
Poland
entry |5 pages
Puerto Rico
entry |4 pages
Taiwan and Hong Kong
entry |5 pages
Chicago
entry |6 pages
Houston
entry |7 pages
Los Angeles
entry |7 pages
Miami
entry |3 pages
New Orleans
entry |8 pages
New York City
entry |8 pages
Rural America
entry |7 pages
San Francisco
entry |6 pages
Suburban America
entry |7 pages
Washington, D.C.
part 5|27 pages
International Perspectives
entry |3 pages
American Emigration Abroad
entry |5 pages
Global Economy and Immigration
entry |6 pages
International Law and Immigration
entry |8 pages
International Politics and Immigration
entry |5 pages
Human Trafficking and Slavery
part |183 pages
Documents
entry |1 pages
Revolutionary War Correspondence of George Washington (1775-1778)
entry |6 pages
Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1782)
entry |1 pages
Article I, Sections 8 and 9, the U.S. Constitution (1787)
entry |1 pages
An Act to Establish an Uniform Rule of Naturalization (1790)
entry |2 pages
Look Before You Leap, Anonymous (1796)
entry |2 pages
Alien Act (1798)
entry |5 pages
History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, George Flower (1817-1818)
entry |2 pages
Plea for Change of Venue by James Brown, Petitioner in Case to Retrieve Runaway Indentured Servants (1819)
entry |2 pages
Manifest of Immigrants Act (1819)
entry |1 pages
Selections from Letters Written During a Tour through the United States, in the Autumn of 1819, Emanuel Howitt (1819)
entry |4 pages
Imminent Dangers, Samuel Morse (1835)
entry |1 pages
Stimulating Emigration from Ireland, Court Deposition by Michael Gaugan (1837)
entry |3 pages
Four Years of Irish History, 1845-1849, Charles Gavan Duffy (1883)
entry |2 pages
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
entry |4 pages
The United States of North America, with Particular Consideration Paid to German Emigration There, Gottfried Menzel (1853)
entry |3 pages
Emigration, Emigrants, and Know-Nothings, Anonymous (1854)
entry |1 pages
Irish Response to Nativism, Editorial, New York Citizen (1854)
entry |2 pages
U.S. Senate Report on the Demand for Immigrant Labor (1864)
entry |3 pages
Report of the Minnesota Board of Immigration (1871)
entry |3 pages
Economic Value of an Immigrant, Special Report of the U.S. Congress (1871)
entry |2 pages
Page Act (1875)
entry |1 pages
Angell Treaty (1881)
entry |2 pages
Report on German Emigration, Interview with a Government Official of Würtemburg (1881)
entry |2 pages
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
entry |2 pages
Alien Contract Labor Law (Foran Act) (1885)
entry |3 pages
Scott Act (1888)
entry |1 pages
Act Banning Naturalization of Anarchists (1903)
entry |1 pages
Gentlemen's Agreement (1907)
entry |2 pages
White-Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) (1910)
entry |2 pages
Immigration Act (1917)
entry |2 pages
Jones-Shafroth Act (1917)
entry |7 pages
The Immigrant and the Community, Grace Abbott (1917)
entry |2 pages
Quota Act (1921)
entry |2 pages
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)
entry |2 pages
Quota Act (1924)
entry |1 pages
Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
entry |1 pages
Executive Order 9066, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942)
entry |3 pages
Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)
entry |1 pages
Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Acts (1943)
entry |2 pages
Directive on European Refugees, President Harry S. Truman (1945)
entry |2 pages
Agricultural Act of 1949
entry |2 pages
Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act) (1952)
entry |10 pages
Whom We Shall Welcome, Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization (1953)
entry |3 pages
Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)
entry |3 pages
Lau v. Nichols (1974)
entry |10 pages
California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (1975)
entry |2 pages
Refugee Act of 1980
entry |5 pages
White House Statements on Marielito Refugees from Cuba (1980)
entry |9 pages
Plyler v. Doe (1982)
entry |2 pages
U.S.-Cuba Agreement on Marielito Refugees (1984)
entry |1 pages
California Proposition 63 (1986)
entry |4 pages
Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)
entry |3 pages
Statement on Signing Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, President Ronald Reagan
entry |5 pages
Debate on Reparations for Japanese American Internees, U.S. Senate (1988)
entry |5 pages
Immigration Act of 1990
entry |5 pages
New York State Report on Multicultural Textbooks (1991)
entry |3 pages
Executive Order and Press Release on U.S. Repatriation of Haitian Refugees, President George H.W. Bush (1992)
entry |6 pages
District Court Ruling on Admission of Haitian Refugees (1993)
entry |6 pages
"Report Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1994)
entry |8 pages
Report to Congress, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (1994)
entry |3 pages
California Proposition 187 (1994)
entry |2 pages
Revised Guidelines on Asylum for Women, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1995)
entry |3 pages
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Summary (1996)
entry |5 pages
Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, Summary (1996)
entry |2 pages
Amerasian Children Act (1997)
entry |5 pages
America's New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers, U.S. Department of Commerce (1997)
entry |4 pages
California Proposition 227 (1998)
entry |3 pages
"Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1998)
entry |2 pages
"Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship," U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1998)
entry |3 pages
Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) (2004)
entry |2 pages
Secure Fence Act (2006)
entry |4 pages
Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance, City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania (2006)
entry |3 pages
Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives on a Federal Immigration Raid in Postville, Iowa (2008)
entry |2 pages
Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB 1070) of Arizona (2010)
entry |4 pages
Arizona et al. v. united States (2012)
entry |4 pages
Implementation Guidelines for President Barack Obama's "DREAM Act" Executive Order (2012)
entry |3 pages
Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, U.S. Senate (2013)
entry |7 pages
Immigration Planks of Democratic Party Platforms, 1856-2012
entry |9 pages
Immigration Planks of Republican Party Platforms, 1860-2012
