David A Gerber

American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A thoughtful look at immigration, anti-immigration sentiments, and the motivations and experiences of the migrants themselves, this updated book offers a compact but wide-ranging look at one of America's persistent hot-button issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 109mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 134g
• ISBN-13: 9780197542422
• ISBN-10: 0197542425
• Artikelnr.: 60180588

Autorenporträt

David A. Gerber is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of The Making of an American Pluralism and Authors of Their Lives.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface to the second edition
* List of illustrations
* 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
* Part II Emigration and immigration from international migrants'
perspectives
* 4. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1820-1924
* 5. Mass population movements and resettlement, 1965 to the present
* Part III The dialogue of ethnicity and assimilation
* 6. The widening mainstream
* 7. The future of assimilation
* Conclusion
* Further reading
* Index