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Inside U. S. Immigration Policy The Historical and Social Forces Shaping Contemporary Debates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warde, Bryan.
- 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.
- The Central Pacific Railroad
- 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
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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