Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America

by David M. Reimers

Overview

This revised edition includes extensive discussion of undocumented immigrants, the 1990 immigration act, recent changes in refugee status, and the new wave of East European and Soviet immigrants.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231076814
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/16/1992
Edition description:	second edition
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David M. Reimers is professor of history at New York University and the author of many books, including Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America, and (with Frederick Binder) All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York, both published by Columbia.

Editorial Reviews

Eight studies analyze how electrical action potentials facilitate secretion of substances from nerve cells which control endocrine events. First treatment of the phenomenon in an exclusively neuroendocrine setting. A study of Third World immigration to the US from the time of WW II to the present, with a brief (ten-page) introductory chapter summarizing Third World immigration before the war. For this edition (first was 1985), Reimers has updated individual chapters and added a short concluding chapter on the Immigration Act of 1990. Paper edition (07681-9), $14.50. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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