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Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration

Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration


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An examination of all sides of the immigration argument in the USA. The text investigates the history of American attitudes toward immigration and offers a perspective on the crisis in the late 1990s. The core of the book covers the heated arguments of the anti-immigration forces, from environmental groups that warn against the consequences of overpopulation, to economic and cultural concerns. The author sees potential solutions in English language instruction for newcomers, greater accountability of sponsors, and government intervention to counterbalance the negative economic impact some immigrants have on poor communities. He also outlines the many bureaucratic and practical challenges faced by the INS, from determining who gets political asylum to screening applicants for criminal records. The text charts the history of U.S. immigration policy and public reaction to newcomers, from the Puritan colonists to World War II refugees. He shows how immigrant groups have historically been targeted - whether for ethnic, racial or religious reasons. This history of prejudice throws light on later developments in immigration history, such as the public response to the Cuban refugee crisis, the growing proportion of Third World immigrants, and the relationship between legal and illegal immigration, right up to the battles over California's proposition 187 - which proposed to restrict public assistance for aliens and their children - and major congressional legislation passed in 1996 to deal with immigration.

About the Author :
David M. Reimers is professor of history at New York University and the author of many books, including Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America, and (with Frederick Binder) All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York, both published by Columbia.

Review :
"Reimers has undoubtedly lit the way for scholars and lay citizens alike to a more fruitful discussion of contemporary immigration and the newest American nativism." -- Matthew Frye Jacobson, Reviews in American History "Reimers provides a useful survey of the current state of federal immigration law and enforcement policies as well as proposed changes in the existing regulations." -- Boston Book Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780231109567
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 470 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0231109563
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration
  • Width: 156 mm


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