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Unwelcome strangers : American identity and the turn against immigration David M. Reimers
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks JV6483.R45 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reimers, David M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion--United States.
- Public opinion.
- Immigrants--United States--Public opinion.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Public opinion.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Local Subjects:
- Public opinion--United States.
- Immigrants--United States--Public opinion.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Public opinion.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c1998.
- Contents:
- ch. 1. Toward exclusion: American immigration policy before World War II
- ch. 2. New movement to restrict immigration
- ch. 3. Overpopulation, immigration, the environment, and the new restrictionism
- ch. 4. Broken immigration system
- ch. 5. Old wine in new bottle: the economics debate
- ch. 6. Why can't they be like us? the assimilationist issue
- ch. 7. New immigration policy, 1994-1997?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-185) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0231109571
- 0231109563 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 38130768
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