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Inside U. S. Immigration Policy The Historical and Social Forces Shaping Contemporary Debates.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Warde, Bryan.
Contributor:
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
United States.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (370 p.)
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Detailed Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Organization of the Book
Part I Setting the Context
Chapter 1 Immigration as an American and Global Phenomenon: A Nation of Immigrants
Immigration and Its Global Significance
International Migrant Labor
The U.S. and International Migrant Labor
Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe
Ukrainian Refugees
Hostility toward Non-European Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The U.S. and Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The Lowering of the Allocation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The Erosion of Bipartisan Support for Refugee Resettlement in the U.S
Chapter Summary
Discussion Questions
References
Chapter 2 The Present and the Past: A Broken Immigration System
Executive and Judicial Interventions
State, City, and County Interventions
Past Policy Interventions
Immigration in Colonial America
Benjamin Franklin
The Growth of the Colonies and the Need for Immigrants
A New Nation and Immigration
The Founding Fathers and Immigration
The Naturalization Act, 1790
The 1795 Amendments to the Naturalization Act
Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798
The Constitution and Immigration
The Sedition Acts: The Earliest Example of Nativism in the New Republic
Naturalization Act, 1802
Mass Immigration 1820 to 1920
Push and Pull Factors
The First Wave, 1800-1820
The Second Wave, 1830-1850
The Third Wave, 1880-1920
The Rise of Nativism Sentiments against Irish Immigrants
The Know Nothing Party
Abraham Lincoln, the Pro-immigration President
Chy Lung v. Freeman, 1875 and the Shift of Immigration Responsibility from the States to the Federal Government
Part II Conceptual Frameworks
Chapter 3 Theories
Nativism
Nationalism
Xenophobia
Great Replacement Theory
Group Threat Theory
Folk Theories of Nationality and Anti-Immigrant Attitudes
Push and Pull Factors and Lee's Theory of Migration
Aspiration-Capabilities Framework for Immigration
References
Part III U.S. Immigration System Policies and Practice from Past to Present
Chapter 4 From Open Door to Exclusion and Gatekeeping: The Contemporary U.S. Immigration Bureaucracy
Open Door to Exclusion
Chinese Immigration to the U.S. Begins (1785)
Mass Immigration from China Push Factors
Mass Immigration from China Pull Factors
Large-Scale Chinese Immigration to the U.S. Begins
A Warm Welcome to California
Unwanted Competition and White Labor Force Hostility
The Weaponization of Anti-Chinese Immigrant Sentiments
The Othering of Chinese Immigrants
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Other Format:
Print version: Warde, Bryan Inside U. S. Immigration Policy
ISBN:
9781040296004
1040296009
9781032450087
Publisher Number:
40032637928
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