Table of Contents
1: Causes, Processes, and Patterns; Causes of Immigration; America's Image in the Global Imagination; Chain Migration; Economic Pull Factors; Economic Push Factors; Natural Disasters and Environmental Crises; Political, Ethnic, Religious, and Gender-Related Persecution; Wars and Civil Unrest; Processes; Adoption; Human Smuggling and the Business of Illegal Immigration; Immigrant Aid Societies and Organizations; Marriage and Spousal Immigration; Sponsorship; Demographics and Settlement; Census, U.S.; Demographic and Statistical Trends; Settlement Patterns; Return Migration; 2: History; Prehistory Through First Wave (to 1800); Native Americans; Early Spanish Settlers; Puritans and Other Religious Groups; Indentured Servants; Free Immigration; Slave Trade; Immigrants and the American Revolution; Second Wave (1800-1880s); Early Nineteenth-Century Immigration; Internal Migration to 1865; The Great Irish Immigration; German-Speaking Political Refugees and Economic Migrants; Nativism and KnowNothings; Chinese and the Chinese Exclusion Act; Immigrants and the Civil War; Immigrants in the American West; Third Wave (1880s-1920); The New Immigration; Immigration Stations; Living Conditions: The Urban Experience; Industrial Labor; Culture and Assimilation: Hybrid Identities; Era of Quotas and Restrictions (1920-1965); Nativist Reaction; Immigrants and the First Red Scare; Immigrants and Espionage; Restrictive Legislation and Quotas; War Refugees; Internment of Japanese and Others During World War II; Latino Immigration; Fourth Wave (1965-2001); Statistical Overview, 1965-2000; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965; Southeast Asian Refugee Crisis, 1975-1980; Immigrants from the Developing World: Coming to America, 1965-1990s; Immigrants from the Developing World: Life in America, 1965-1990s; Collapse of Communism and Its Effects, 1980s-1990s; Immigration Reform, 1980s-1990s; Immigration Agencies and Enforcement: The INS and Its Predecessors; Immigrant–Minority Relations, 1965-2001; Anti–Immigrant Backlash, 1965-2001; The Post-9/11 Era (2001-Present); Statistical Overview, Since 2000; Immigration Law and Enforcement, Impact of 9/11; Illegal Immigrants and Amnesty Policy, Impact of 9/11; Immigration Agencies and Government Organizations, Post-9/11; Controlling the U.S.-Mexican Border; Immigration Legislation, Post-9/11; Anti-Muslim Xenophobia; Anti–Illegal Immigration Policies and Politics at the State and Local Levels, Post–9/11; 3: Society, Culture, and Politics; Assimilation and Acculturation; Children and Adolescents; Connections to Homeland; Elderly; Ethnic Intermarriage; Family; Gender; Segmented Assimilation; Culture, Language, and Media; Art and Architecture; English as a Second Language; Film and Broadcast Media; Food; Genealogy: Searching for Roots; Internet; Language; Literature in English; Media Portrayal; Music; Popular Culture; Press; Sports; Theater; Economics and Labor; Agriculture; Economic Benefits and Costs of Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Home-Country Economy, Impact on; Housing; Income and Wealth; Labor Markets; Poverty; Professionals and the Brain Drain; Service Sector; Sweatshops and Factories; Underground Economy; Unions and Union Organizing; Health, Education, and Welfare; Bilingual Education; Health Care; Higher Education and Science; Immigrants and Health; Mental Health; Public Schools; Social Services; Welfare and Public Benefits; Law and Politics; Admission Laws: Pre-Restriction Era, 1800s-1910s; Admission Laws: Restriction Era, 1920s-Present; Amnesty; Anti-Immigrant Politics; Civil Rights of Immigrants; Crime, Immigrant; Illegal Immigrant Identification; Immigrant Politics: Activism; Immigrant Politics: Electoral Politics; Immigrant Politics: The Home Country; Immigrant Status, Rights, and Privileges; Local Governments and Immigration; Public Opinion and Immigration; State Governments and Immigration; Religion: Groups and Practice; Buddhism; Catholicism; Eastern Rite Christianity; Evangelical Christianity; Hinduism and Sikhism; Islam; Judaism; Protestantism, Mainline; 4: Nations of Origin and U.S. Destinations; Nations of Origin and Immigration Groups; Africa, East; Africa, Southern; Africa, West; African Americans; Andean Countries; Armenia; Asia, South and Central; Asia, Southeast; Brazil and the Southern Cone; Canada; Caribbean, English-Speaking; Caribbean, French-Speaking; Central America; China; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Europe, Eastern and Central; Europe, Northern and Western; Germany; Great Britain; Greece; Iran; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Jews; Korea; Mexico; Middle East and North Africa; Oceania; Philippines; Poland; Puerto Rico; Taiwan and Hong Kong; U.S. Destinations; Chicago; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New Orleans; New York City; Rural America; San Francisco; Suburban America; Washington, D.C.; 5: International Perspectives; International Perspectives; American Emigration Abroad; Global Economy and Immigration; International Law and Immigration; International Politics and Immigration; Human Trafficking and Slavery; Documents; Documents; Revolutionary War Correspondence of George Washington (1775-1778); Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1782); Article I, Sections 8 and 9, the U.S. Constitution (1787); An Act to Establish an Uniform Rule of Naturalization (1790); Look Before You Leap, Anonymous (1796); Alien Act (1798); History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, George Flower (1817-1818); Plea for Change of Venue by James Brown, Petitioner in Case to Retrieve Runaway Indentured Servants (1819); Manifest of Immigrants Act (1819); Selections from Letters Written During a Tour through the United States, in the Autumn of 1819, Emanuel Howitt (1819); Imminent Dangers, Samuel Morse (1835); Stimulating Emigration from Ireland, Court Deposition by Michael Gaugan (1837); Four Years of Irish History, 1845-1849, Charles Gavan Duffy (1883); Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); The United States of North America, with Particular Consideration Paid to German Emigration There, Gottfried Menzel (1853); Emigration, Emigrants, and Know-Nothings, Anonymous (1854); Irish Response to Nativism, Editorial, New York Citizen (1854); U.S. Senate Report on the Demand for Immigrant Labor (1864); Report of the Minnesota Board of Immigration (1871); Economic Value of an Immigrant, Special Report of the U.S. Congress (1871); Page Act (1875); Angell Treaty (1881); Report on German Emigration, Interview with a Government Official of Würtemburg (1881); Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); Alien Contract Labor Law (Foran Act) (1885); Scott Act (1888); Act Banning Naturalization of Anarchists (1903); Gentlemen's Agreement (1907); White-Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) (1910); Immigration Act (1917); Jones-Shafroth Act (1917); The Immigrant and the Community, Grace Abbott (1917); Quota Act (1921); United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923); Quota Act (1924); Indian Citizenship Act (1924); Executive Order 9066, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942); Hirabayashi v. United States (1943); Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Acts (1943); Directive on European Refugees, President Harry S. Truman (1945); Agricultural Act of 1949; Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act) (1952); Whom We Shall Welcome, Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization (1953); Immigration and Nationality Act (1965); Lau v. Nichols (1974); California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (1975); Refugee Act of 1980; White House Statements on Marielito Refugees from Cuba (1980); Plyler v. Doe (1982); U.S.-Cuba Agreement on Marielito Refugees (1984); California Proposition 63 (1986); Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986); Statement on Signing Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, President Ronald Reagan; Debate on Reparations for Japanese American Internees, U.S. Senate (1988); Immigration Act of 1990; New York State Report on Multicultural Textbooks (1991); Executive Order and Press Release on U.S. Repatriation of Haitian Refugees, President George H.W. Bush (1992); District Court Ruling on Admission of Haitian Refugees (1993); Report Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1994); Report to Congress, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (1994); California Proposition 187 (1994); Revised Guidelines on Asylum for Women, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1995); Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Summary (1996); Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, Summary (1996); Amerasian Children Act (1997); America's New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers, U.S. Department of Commerce (1997); California Proposition 227 (1998); Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1998); Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1998); Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) (2004); Secure Fence Act (2006); Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance, City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania (2006); Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives on a Federal Immigration Raid in Postville, Iowa (2008); Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB 1070) of Arizona (2010); Arizona et al. v. united States (2012); Implementation Guidelines for President Barack Obama's DREAM Act Executive Order (2012); Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, U.S. Senate (2013); Immigration Planks of Democratic Party Platforms, 1856-2012; Immigration Planks of Republican Party Platforms, 1860-2012