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| Genre/Form: | Sources |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781682170649 1682170640 |
| OCLC Number: | 1099681257 |
| Notes: | H.W. Wilson. |
| Target Audience: | 10-A. |
| Description: | xii, 189 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm |
| Contents: | Preface -- Politics, the Law, and Immigration Reform -- Politics and Reform in an Immigrant Nation -- Immigration Reform: Corporate Demands Trump Human Rights -- Hey! Who Left the Border Open? -- American Limbo -- Miscalculation on Visas Disrupts Lives of Highly Skilled Immigrants -- The Front Line Against Birthright Citizenship -- Immigration Labor, Activism, and Human Rights -- Laboring for Human Rights -- Illegal Immigrant Detention Centers Rife with Abuses, U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report Finds -- Immigrant Labor, Immigrant Rights -- Mexican Migration-Corridor Hospitality -- How Immigrant Activists Changed L.A. -- Deadly Human Trafficking Business on Mexico-US Border -- Popular Conceptions, Stereotypes, and Biases -- Immigration Myths and Misconceptions -- More than Half the Nation's Governors Say Syrian Refugees Not Welcome -- Turning Away Refugees Won't Fight Terrorism, and Might Make It Worse -- Report Aims to Debunk Anti-Immigration Myths -- Immigrants and Crime: Crunching the Numbers -- For Illegal Immigrants with Babies, the Anchor Pulls in Many Directions -- The Telling Way White Americans React to Pictures of Dark-Skinned Immigrants -- Education, Culture, and Families -- Immigrant Family Value. Schools Brace for the Influx of Immigrants -- In U.S. Schools, Undocumented Youths Strive to Adjust -- Supreme Court Guards Education for Undocumented Immigrants -- Immigration: Assimilation and the Measure of an American -- Requirements Keep Young Immigrants Out of Long Island Classrooms -- Bilingualism: When Education and Assimilation Clash -- Children of Immigration -- Global and Domestic Economies -- The Economic Impact of Immigration -- Globalization and NAFTA Caused Migration from Mexico -- The Fear of 'Not Enough to Go Round' -- Let the Kids Stay -- The Most Entrepreneurial Group in America Wasn't Born in America -- The Economics of Syrian Refugees -- Bibliography -- Websites -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Reference shelf, volume 88, no. 2. |
Abstract:
Examines the many issues surrounding immigration, from the earliest settlement of British North America in the seventeenth century through the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks of the twenty-first century.
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