A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative
collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major
topics and themes underlying American immigration history.
* Focuses on the two most important periods in American
Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the
Globalizing Era (Cold War to the present)
* Provides an in-depth treatment of central themes, including
economic circumstances, acculturation, social mobility, and
assimilation
* Includes an introductory essay by the volume editor.
Cuprins
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Reed Ueda
Part I Policy and Politics
1 A Nation of Immigrants and a Gatekeeping Nation: American
Immigration Law and Policy 5
Erika Lee
2 Naturalization and Nationality 36
Irene Bloemraad and Reed Ueda
3 Immigration and Ethnic Politics 58
James J. Connolly
4 Immigrant Transnationals and US Foreign Relations 77
Xiao-huang Yin and Peter H. Koehn
5 Bodies from Abroad: Immigration, Health, and Disease 106
Alan M. Kraut
6 The Politics of Immigration and the Rise of the Migration
State: Comparative and Historical Perspectives 132
James F. Hollifield
Part II Ethnicity , Race , and Nation
7 Ethnic and Racial Identity 161
Marilyn Halter
8 Nativism and Prejudice Against Immigrants 177
Tyler Anbinder
9 Assimilation and American National Identity 202
Michael R. Olneck
10 Internationalization and Transnationalization 225
David Gerber
11 Immigration and Race Relations 255
Jeffrey Melnick
Part III Population and Society
12 Demography and American Immigration 277
Michael S. Teitelbaum
13 Gender and Immigration 289
Suzanne M. Sinke
14 Immigrant Residential and Mobility Patterns 309
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
15 Characteristics of Immigrants to the United States:
1820-2003 328
Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig
16 Marriage Patterns in Historical Perspective: Gender and
Ethnicity 359
Robert Mc Caa, Albert Esteve, and Clara Cortina
Part IV Economy and Society
17 Immigrant Social Mobility and the Historian 373
Kenneth A. Scherzer
18 Labor and Immigration History: First Principles 394
Leon Fink
19 Immigration in the Economy: Development and Enterprise
409
Nian-Sheng Huang
20 Immigrants in the American Housing Market 424
Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
Part V Culture and Community
21 Immigration and American Diversity: Food for Thought
443
Donna R. Gabaccia
22 Immigration and Language 471
Nancy C. Carnevale
23 Immigration and Education in the United States 492
Paula S. Fass
24 Religion and Ethnicity 513
John Mc Clymer
25 Mutual Aid Societies and Fraternal Orders 528
Daniel Soyer
Index 547
Despre autor
Reed Ueda is Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the author of Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History (1994).
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