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The immigration handbook
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Ivan Vasic |
"This volume explains the steps and procedures necessary for an individual to navigate the U.S. immigration system. The author provides information of the process for obtaining visas, permanent resid… |
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New Race Politics in America
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Jane Junn |
Foreign migration to the United States is dramatically altering the demographic profile of the American electorate. Nearly a third of all Americans are of non-white and non-European descent. Latinos … |
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97 Orchard
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Jane Ziegelman |
In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish,… |
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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON |
Noted for his military histories and his social commentary on post-9/11 American life, Victor Davis Hanson is a fifth-generation Californian who teaches college classics courses and runs a family far… |
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The long way home
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David Laskin |
"Narrative account of how twelve immigrant soldiers became Americans through fighting in World War I"--Provided by publisher. |
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The new face of small-town America
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Edgar Sandoval |
"A collection of essays on the experiences of Latino immigrants in Allentown, Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher. |
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Brownies and Kalashnikovs
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Fadia Basrawi |
"Fadia, a Saudi Arab, grew up in the strictly circumscribed and tailor-made 'desert Disneyland' of Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Company). This slice of modern, suburban, middle America is located… |
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Issues in U.S. Immigration
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Carl L. Bankston III |
Of the many themes that characterize U.S. history, immigration is one of the most constant and most pervasive. Since the first European and African immigrants began arriving in North America during t… |
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Twenty-first-century gateways
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Caroline Brettell,Susan Wiley Hardwick |
"Focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations among "second-tier" metropolitan areas. Examines the changes wrought by these new suburban settlement patterns and provides comparative analysis … |
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Machine made
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Terry Golway |
A journalist, historian, and expert on the Irish American experience tackles the common stereotypes and presents a revisionist version of the notoriously crooked Tammany Hall, describing the crucial … |
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Village of immigrants
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Diana R. Gordon |
"Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, exemplifies a little-noted national trend--that of immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural populati… |
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Detained and deported
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Margaret Regan |
"The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at a rate never before seen in American history. Hundreds of thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from … |
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Migrants and City-Making
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Nina Glick Schiller,Ayse Çaglar |
In Migrants and City-Making Ay?e Ça?lar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institu… |
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The Other Side of Assimilation
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Tomas Jimenez |
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The Undocumented Americans
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Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |
Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized … |
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Women Who Stay Behind
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Ruth Trinidad Galván |
Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative,… |
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New faiths, old fears
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Bruce B. Lawrence |
"As a result of immigration from Asia in the wake of the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, the fastest-growing religions in America - faster than all Christian groups combined - are Is… |
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Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora
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Manoucheka Celeste |
With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international migration in U.S. news and popular culture. This book is interested in stratified immigrant experiences, diverse b… |
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Crossing over
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Rubén Martínez |
"The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world. Even as the United States deploys billions of dollars and a vast arsenal to "hold the line," the border is breached dail… |
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Immigrant Life in the US
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Donna Gabaccia |
Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range o… |
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