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Immigration in America today : an encyclopedia
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Immigration in America today : an encyclopedia

Author: James Loucky; Jeanne Armstrong; Lawrence J Estrada
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: James Loucky; Jeanne Armstrong; Lawrence J Estrada
ISBN: 0313312141 9780313312144 9780313312144
OCLC Number: 65207075
Notes: "The American mosaic"--P. [4] of cover.
Description: xiii, 380 p. ; 27 cm.
Contents: LIST OF ENTRIES: Achievement -- Adoption -- Agencies -- Agricultural workers -- Assimilation -- Asylum -- Bilingual education -- Bilingualism -- Biological responses -- Border control -- Borderlands -- Children -- Citizenship -- Crime -- Demography -- Diasporas -- Documentation -- Domestic work -- Dual citizenship -- Effects of unauthorized immigration -- Emigration -- Employee sanctions -- Enslavement -- Ethnicity -- Expedited entry and removal -- Families - Family reunification -- Fertility -- Food -- Food processing -- Gangs -- Gender -- Global origins: Asia, Africa, and Europe -- Global origins: Latin America and the Caribbean -- Growth and development -- Guestworkers -- Health -- Human smuggling -- Immigrant education -- Immigration system -- Informal economy -- Interethnic relations -- International accords -- Jus soli -- Labor organization and activism -- Legalization -- Legislation -- Literature and film -- Marriage -- Mental health problems -- Mexico-U.S. migration -- Migrant education -- Migration processes -- Music -- National security -- Older persons -- Political participation -- Ports of entry -- Posttraumatic stress disorder -- Public charge -- Racism -- Refugee law and police -- Religion -- Remittances -- Residential patterns -- Return migration -- Rights -- Sexual orientation -- Skilled migration -- Social benefits -- Social mobility -- Social networks -- Stereotypes -- Sweatshops -- Temporary protected status -- Transnationalism -- Unauthorized immigration -- U.S.-Canada border -- U.S,-Mexican border -- Women -- Work.
Responsibility: edited by James Loucky, Jeanne Armstrong, and Larry J. Estrada.
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