Waubonsee Community College

Immigration, [by] Micah L. Issitt

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Immigration

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[by] Micah L. Issitt

Opinions throughout history

Traces the history of immigration in the United States from the eighteenth century to present day, and examines, through analysis of primary and secondary documents, how immigration policy and activism relate to public opinion

Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- Historical Timeline -- From Immigration to Sovereigns -- The United States Before Nationhood -- Becoming American -- The Naturalization Process (1790-1798) -- Friends and Enemies -- Immigration and National Security Collide (1798) -- The Green Menace -- The Know-Nothings and the Nativist Movement (1800-1850s) -- Marrying Citizenship -- Women and Immigrants' Rights (1850-1855) -- Encouraging Immigration -- The Civil War and the Nation's First and Only Pro-Immigration Period (1860-1864) -- The Color of Citizenship -- Post-War Immigration Policy (1870-1875) -- The East in the West -- Railroads, Coolies, and Racism (1800-1868) -- The Chinese Problem Goes Federal -- Racism Becomes Federal Law (1860-1890) -- Centralizing Immigration Policy -- The Birth of the INS (1824-1891) -- Symbolizing Immigration -- The Federal Immigration Centers (1892-1910) -- The Undesirables -- Eugenics and Economics in Immigrant Exclusion Policies (1840-1917) -- The War on Anarchy -- The Anarchist Exclusion and Turner v Williams (1886-1917) -- The Immigration Race -- World War I and the Immigration Act of 1917 -- The End of Mass Migration -- The Beginning of the Quota System (1920-1925) -- Down Mexico Way -- Mexican Repatriation and the Great Depression (1929-1939) -- America's Favored Asians -- Chinese Exclusion and Japanese Internment (1941-1945) -- America's Reluctant Humanitarianism -- Refugees During and After World War II (1937-1950) -- The Last of Western Civilization -- The Cold War and the McCarran-Walter Act (1950-1958) -- Opportunity and Exploitation -- The Bracero Program (1917-1964)Liberty and Progress -- Hart-Celler and the End of America's Racial Engineering (1960-1965) -- Cold War Refugees -- The South Asian and Cuban Refugee Crises (1975-1980) -- Aliens Are Out There -- Changing Attitudes on Immigration -- Immigrant Rights and Welfare -- Immigrant Children and the Sanctuary Movement -- (1980-1990) -- The End of the Cold War -- Immigration Law and Diversity -- Terrorism Gets in the Way -- Immigration and the Latino Conservative Movement -- Immigration in the Age of Fear -- From ICE to NSEERS to Islamophobia (2001-2008) -- The Great Wall of America -- The Border Wall Debate -- The American Dreamers -- The Dreamers and DACA (2012-2018) -- The Fight for American Ideology -- The Travel Ban and American Religious Identity (2016-2018) -- Open or Closed -- Immigration and Globalization -- Notes -- Primary & Secondary Sources -- Glossary -- Historical Snapshots -- Bibliography -- Index