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Immigration, Micah L. Issitt

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Immigration

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Micah L. Issitt

Opinions throughout history

This volume tracks the changing national views on immigration. Historian at-large Micah Issitt traces the path of public opinion and policy on immigration in American history, with each chapter providing insightful commentary on a selected primary source. Drawing from the popular press, key court and legislative battles, speeches, social activism and opinion polls, Opinions Throughout History-Immigration offers readers mixed sources of information woven together to highlight the overall momentum of developing public opinion on this perennial policy issue. As the country grows and expands to accommodate new waves of immigrants, the book explores the tension between welcoming newcomers and seeing their value to the nascent nation and rejecting immigrants and the strains of anti-immigration thought in American society. Issues discussed are historic patterns of immigration from Ellis Island to the Homestead Act, fear of immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Act, racism and immigration law, the establishment of quotas, eminent domain, the War on Terror, displaced persons and refugees as well as border patrol. The volume explores both the polarized opinions and current flashpoints in immigration including the merits of the HB1 visa, the travel ban from predominantly Muslim nations, the proposed border wall and the future of immigrants who came to the US as children. Immigration provides an essential resource for history and social studies research and an accessible commentary on the ways in which immigration opinion and policy have evolved and will continue to evolve. --, Publisher's website

From Immigration to Sovereigns -- Becoming American -- Friends and Enemies -- The Green Menace -- Marrying Citizenship -- Encouraging Immigration -- The Color of Citizenship -- The East in the West -- The Chinese Problem Goes Federal -- Centralizing Immigration Policy -- Symbolizing Immigration -- The Undesirables -- The War on Anarchy -- The Immigration Race -- The End of Mass Migration -- Down Mexico Way -- America’s Favored Asians -- America’s Reluctant Humanitarianism -- The Last of Western Civilization -- Opportunity and Exploitation -- Liberty and Progress -- Cold War Refugees -- Aliens Are Out There -- Immigrant Rights and Welfare -- The End of the Cold War -- Terrorism Gets in the Way -- Immigration in the Age of Fear -- The Great Wall of America -- The American Dreamers -- The Fight for American Ideology -- Open or Closed