Introduction: Immigration : An American History -- Founding Immigrants : Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century America -- Opening the Door to Europe's People -- From Two Continents, Bound for Two Coasts, 1820-1882 -- Americans React, Regulations Begin, 1820-1882 -- The Masses Arrive as the Door Starts to Close, 1882-1921 -- What Americans Said about the Immigrants, 1882-1921 -- Closing the Gates : National Origins and the Great Depression -- Newcomers and World War II -- Prosperity, the Braceros, and Cold War Refugees, 1945-1965 -- The Age of Reform : Braceros, Immigrants, and Refugees -- A New Open Door : Immigration in the Twentieth Century's Last Decades -- Immigration Politics and Restrictionism, 1970-2001 -- The Era of Border Security : Immigration after 9/11 -- Epilogue Past, Present, Future.
Summary:
"The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation. Drawn from stories spanning the colonial period to the present, Bon Tempo and Diner detail the experiences of people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They explore the many themes of American immigration scholarship, including the contexts and motivations for migration, settlement patterns, work, family, racism, and nativism, against the background of immigration law and policy. Taking a global approach that considers economic and personal factors in both the sending and receiving societies, the authors pay close attention to how immigration has been shaped by the state response to its promises and challenges."--Dust jacket.
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