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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gerber, David A., 1944- author.     Subjects     Cultural pluralism -- United States.     United States -- Emigration and immigration.     United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gerber, David A., 1944- author.       by title:      American immigration...         MARC Display

American immigration : a very short introduction / David A. Gerber. by Gerber, David A., 1944- author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] Subjects Cultural pluralism -- United States.   United States -- Emigration and immigration.   United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History. ISBN:  9780197542422 (paperback) : 0197542425 (paperback) : Series:  Very short introductions. Description:  xx, 153 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm Edition:  Second edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The population of the United States has diverse sources: territorial acquisition through conquest and colonialism, the slave trade, and voluntary immigration, which has been the greatest instrument of population expansion and has been central to the transition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a rural-agricultural to an urban-industrial society. Recognition of the need for labor to develop and expand economic activity has been central to policies and laws enabling mass immigration. Many Americans, too, value the memory of immigrant ancestors, and are sentimentally inclined to immigrant strivings. Alongside the embrace of immigration has been the perception that immigration destabilizes social order, cultural coherence, job markets, and political alignments. In some observers that recognition has been animated by racist appraisals of various immigrant peoples and by nativism, a general dislike of people and things foreign to Americans. The century and a half of American nationhood has been characterized by both support for openness to immigration and embrace of a cosmopolitan formulation of American identity and for restrictions and assertions of belief in a core Anglo-American national character. The book traces three massive waves of immigration from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and analyses the nature of immigration as a purposeful, structured activity, attitudes supporting or hostile to immigration, policies and laws regulating immigration, and the nature of and prospects for assimilation. This second edition takes account of the dramatic developments since 2011, including the crisis along the southwestern border and the intense conflict over illegal immigration"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.873 Ge Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 304.873 Ge Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.873 Gerber Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.873 Ge Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.873 Ge Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.873 Ge Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 304.873 Ga Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.873 Ge Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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