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This history of the "new immigration" weighs the many factors that prompted the decision to leave the old world. Though the designation "new immigrant" generally refers to southern and eastern Europeans only, this volume also includes the Chinese and Japanese who arrived in the period from 1880-1921. Kraut argues that immigration to America was but one of the many choices available to the immigrants, and that individual aptitude and desires were just as influential as cultural, social, and familial pressures to find a better life. The immigrants' impact on America and their new countrymen is also considered. This title includes a very good, 32-page photographic essay..
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Despite rhetoric that suggests that the United States opens its doors to virtually anyone who wants to come here, immigration has been restricted since the nation began. In this book, Kevin R. Johnson argues that immigration policy reflects the social hierarchy that prevails in American society as a whole and that immigration reform is intertwined with the struggle for civil rights.

The "Huddled Masses" Myth focuses on the exclusion of people of color, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities, the poor, political dissidents, and other disfavored groups, showing how bias shapes the law. In the nineteenth century, for example, virulent anti-Asian bias excluded would-be immigrants from China and severely restricted those from Japan. In our own time, people fleeing persecution and poverty in Haiti generally have been treated much differently from those fleeing Cuba. Johnson further argues that although domestic minorities (whether citizens or lawful immigrants) enjoy legal protections and might even be courted by politicians, they are regarded as subordinate groups and suffer discrimination. This book has particular resonance today as the public debates the uncertain status of immigrants from Arab countries and of the Muslim faith..
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J.D. O'Neil is a member of one the full time fugitive teams created by Congress O'Neil is assigned the case of Javier Orellena Orellena has killed a police officer in El Salvador. Orellena has run back to the United States to run his part of the world's most dangerous street gang, Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. J.D. and his long time partner, Mike Tavaglia, are on the hunt again. Trouble brews when they discover exactly how high up the connections of the dead Salvadorian officer go on the world stage. With danger around every turn and a brutal cop killer their quarry, the two devoted officers use every trick learned from their decades on the street to bring him to justice. During the investigation, J.D.'s job, the life of his children and his colleagues are placed in harm's way, and not everyone survives.The good guys always win, but at what cost? The bullets fly and blood flows from places that J.D. would never had imagined..
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Against a backdrop of persecution, repression, humiliation and rampant anti-Semitism, Jews from The Former Soviet Union suffered a long and tragic history as the proverbial scapegoats of any societal, philosophical or turf issues. They were at the mercy of the whims or political stance of consecutive autocratic rulers. In 1979, a major phenomenon in Jewish history occurred when Soviet Jews, who were enslaved in a very real sense, began a struggle for freedom; they had defined goals to which the Jewish communities in United States and Israel responded, reaching out in tangible and effective ways on behalf of Soviet Jewry, beginning with our advocacy of human rights. Kruman takes the reader back to the beginning of Jewish presence in what evolved into the country of Russia, then subsequently the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, leading to an understanding of what factors led to the creation of the USSR, as well as those which led to its demise, and how these factors affected Jewish life specifically. Included are 14 personal interviews with Jews, now American citizens, caught up in the history of the Soviet Union, both fascinating and tragic..
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In 1997 the United States accepted more legal immigrants than all other countries combined. This large influx of newcomers, however, has alarmed many Americans Immigration is a controversial issue because it intersects with the most contentious issues of our time: multiculturalism, bilingualism, unemployment, crime, etc. Opinion polls since 1965 show that a strong majority want to reduce immigration. Yet our government has refused to respond to the public's wish. In 1996, Congress scuttled a proposal to reduce immigration by a third. (Earlier, in 1990, Congress voted to increase immigration by a whopping 40 percent.) This is all the more surprising because the United States has had no qualms about severely restricting immigration in the past. Kenneth Lee explains why recent immigration policy has failed to reflect the public opinion by approaching the question from a broad, historical outlook, and from a focused, contemporary perspective. He traces several momentous historical changes that have abetted the pro-immigration block and weakened the restrictionists' clout (mainly, the rise of conservative economics in the 1970s and the growing racial liberalism in America). He also examines immigration policy on a micro-level: detailing the intense lobbying that went on for the 1990 and 1996 immigration bills, and he also shows how unlikely players as, for example, Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed, helped defeat the restrictionist bill in 1996..
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Irregular migration, including trafficking in migrants, has emerged as a major international challenge. It now represents one-quarter of the total yearly inflow in the United States and as much as one-half in Europe. At the global level some US$7 billion is channelled every year into human trafficking. Its close links with trafficking in arms and drugs, and with prostitution of women and child abuse, make it an increasingly alarming menace, undermining both social peace and international order. One of the most complete and penetrating treatments of the subject to date, this volume unveils the complexities of contemporary irregular migration and discerns its possible remedies. An incisive discussion on issues of definition is followed by a critical analysis of the causes and conditions of irregular migration and its social and economic effects in both sending and receiving countries. Its searching analysis of current national measures against irregular migration clarifies the reasons for their relative inadequacies. The bold conclusions are shaped into a coherent, comprehensive, and forward-looking strategy to combat irregular migration. The professional rigour and lucidity of the discussion make this timely book valuable to policy-makers, researchers and practitioners alike..
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Title: Huddled masses and uncertain shores: Insights into irregular migration.(Review) (book reviews)
Author: Irene McClure
Publication:International Labour Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1999
Publisher: International Labour Office
Volume: 138 Issue: 2 Page: 206

Article Type: Book Review

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