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Title

Illegal immigration in America : a reference handbook / edited by David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Haines, David W.
• Rosenblum, Karen Elaine

Description

xii, 573 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Few issues have provoked as much controversy over the last decade as illegal immigration. While some argue for the need to seal America's borders and withdraw all forms of social and governmental support for illegal migrants and their children, others argue for humanitarian treatment--including legalization--for people who fill widely acknowledged needs in American industry and agriculture and have left home-country situations of economic hardship or political persecution. The study of illegal immigration necessarily confronts a broad range of migrants--from the familiar border crossers to those who enter illegally and overstay their visas, to the many unrecognized refugees who enter the country to seek protection under U.S. asylum law. The subject also demands attention to American society's responses to these newcomers--responses that often focus on limited elements of a complex issue. A comprehensive, up-to-date review of this volatile subject, this book provides an accessible, balanced introduction to the subject. Covering the full range of illegal immigrants from Mexican border crossers to Central American refugees, illegal Europeans, and smuggled Chinese, the book considers the kind of work the migrants do and the public response to them. The work is divided into four parts: Concepts, Policies, and Numbers; The Migrants and Their Work; The Responses; and Illegal Immigration in Perspective.

Subject

• Noncitizens > Government policy > United States
• Noncitizens > United States
• Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States
• Illegal immigration > United States
• Undocumented Immigrants
• Illegal aliens
• Noncitizens
• Noncitizens > Government policy
• Illegale Einwanderung
• Illegale buitenlanders
• Vreemdelingenbeleid
• Noncitizens
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : problematic labels, volatile issues / David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum -- Labor migration, family integration, and the New America / Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield -- Undocumented immigration to the United States : numbers, trends, and characteristics / Jeffrey S. Passel -- Mexico and U.S. policy on illegal immigration : a fifty-year retrospective / Katherine M. Donato and Rebecca S. Carter -- Unauthorized workers in U.S. agriculture : old versus new migrations / Philip L. Martin -- Social and cultural bases for undocumented immigration into the U.S. poultry industry / David Griffith -- Undocumented immigrants and the meatpacking industry in the Midwest / Janet E. Benson -- Undocumented Latino immigrant workers : the Los Angeles experience / Enrico A. Marcelli -- Salvadorans and Nicaraguans : refugees become workers / Cecilia Menjívar -- Illegal Europeans : transients between two societies / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak -- Migration from the Caribbean : economic and political factors versus legal and illegal status / Samuel Martínez -- Smuggled Chinese in the mountain of gold / Ko-lin Chin -- Refugees at risk : the sanctuary movement and its aftermath / Victoria Rader -- Labor at risk : the exploitation and protection of undocumented workers / David W. Haines -- Rights at risk : California's Proposition 187 / Karen E. Rosenblum -- Maintaining and reunifying families : two case studies of shifting legal status / Lucy M. Cohen -- Border crossings, border control : illegalized migrants from the other side / Duncan M. Earle -- Vanishing acts : illegal immigration in Canada as a sometime social issue / Norman Buchignani and Doreen Indra -- Illegal immigration in Europe : balancing national and European Union issues / Deborah R. Altamirano -- Illegal immigration in Asia : regional patterns and a case study of Nepalese workers in Japan / Keiko Yamanaka -- An introduction to the literature / David W. Haines.

ISBN

• 031330436X
• 9780313304361

LCCN

99013705

OCLC

40698572

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library