03726nam  2200421 i 4500001001200000003000800012005001700020008004100037020002500078020002200103040003100125082001500156245001700171250001900188264009500207264001900302300006300321336002100384337002500405338002300430490004300453500001700496521001000513520024000523504005100763505123400814505070602048651005602754650006002810650005902870650004402929651006302973650005203036650006603088650005103154830004403205856005503249CCE16501407MnSgEFL20160330075257.0160330t20162016mauab    b    001 0 eng d  a9781682170649 (pbk.)  a1682170640 (pbk.)  aMnSgEFLbengcMnSgEFLerda14a325.7321500aImmigration.  aFirst edition. 1aIpswich, MA :bEBSCO Information Services ; aAmenia, NY :bGrey House Publishing,c[2016] 4ccopyright 2016  axii, 189 pages :bcolor illustrations, color map ;c28 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier1 aReference shelf ;vvolume 88, number 2  aH.W. Wilson.2 a10-A.  aExamines the many issues surrounding immigration, from the earliest settlement of British North America in the seventeenth century through the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks of the twenty-first century.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.2 aPreface -- Politics, the Law, and Immigration Reform -- Politics and Reform in an Immigrant Nation -- Immigration Reform: Corporate Demands Trump Human Rights -- Hey! Who Left the Border Open? -- American Limbo -- Miscalculation on Visas Disrupts Lives of Highly Skilled Immigrants -- The Front Line Against Birthright Citizenship -- Immigration Labor, Activism, and Human Rights -- Laboring for Human Rights -- Illegal Immigrant Detention Centers Rife with Abuses, U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report Finds -- Immigrant Labor, Immigrant Rights -- Mexican Migration-Corridor Hospitality -- How Immigrant Activists Changed L.A. -- Deadly Human Trafficking Business on Mexico-US Border -- Popular Conceptions, Stereotypes, and Biases -- Immigration Myths and Misconceptions -- More than Half the Nation's Governors Say Syrian Refugees Not Welcome -- Turning Away Refugees Won't Fight Terrorism, and Might Make It Worse -- Report Aims to Debunk Anti-Immigration Myths -- Immigrants and Crime: Crunching the Numbers -- For Illegal Immigrants with Babies, the Anchor Pulls in Many Directions -- The Telling Way White Americans React to Pictures of Dark-Skinned Immigrants -- Education, Culture, and Families -- Immigrant Family Value.2 aSchools Brace for the Influx of Immigrants -- In U.S. Schools, Undocumented Youths Strive to Adjust -- Supreme Court Guards Education for Undocumented Immigrants -- Immigration: Assimilation and the Measure of an American -- Requirements Keep Young Immigrants Out of Long Island Classrooms -- Bilingualism: When Education and Assimilation Clash -- Children of Immigration -- Global and Domestic Economies -- The Economic Impact of Immigration -- Globalization and NAFTA Caused Migration from Mexico -- The Fear of 'Not Enough to Go Round' -- Let the Kids Stay -- The Most Entrepreneurial Group in America Wasn't Born in America -- The Economics of Syrian Refugees -- Bibliography -- Websites -- Index. 0aUnited StatesxEmigration and immigrationvSources. 0aEmigration and immigration lawzUnited StatesvSources. 0aImmigrantszUnited StatesxSocial conditionsvSources. 0aIllegal alienszUnited StatesvSources. 7aUnited StatesxImmigration and emigrationvSources.2sears 7aImmigration lawzUnited StatesvSources.2sears 7aImmigrantszUnited StatesxSocial conditionsvSources.2sears 7aIllegal alienszUnited StatesvSources.2sears 0aReference shelf ;vvolume 88, number 2.40uhttp://online.salempress.com/doi/book/10.3331/RSAI