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Despite rhetoric that suggests that the United States opens its doors to virtually anyone who wants to come here, immigration has been restricted since the nation began. In this book, Kevin R. Johnson argues that immigration policy reflects the social hierarchy that prevails in American society as a whole and that immigration reform is intertwined with the struggle for civil rights.

The "Huddled Masses" Myth focuses on the exclusion of people of color, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities, the poor, political dissidents, and other disfavored groups, showing how bias shapes the law. In the nineteenth century, for example, virulent anti-Asian bias excluded would-be immigrants from China and severely restricted those from Japan. In our own time, people fleeing persecution and poverty in Haiti generally have been treated much differently from those fleeing Cuba. Johnson further argues that although domestic minorities (whether citizens or lawful immigrants) enjoy legal protections and might even be courted by politicians, they are regarded as subordinate groups and suffer discrimination. This book has particular resonance today as the public debates the uncertain status of immigrants from Arab countries and of the Muslim faith..
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This history of the 'new immigration' weighs the many factors that prompted the decision to leave the old world. Though the designation 'new immigrant' generally refers to southern and eastern Europeans only, this volume also includes the Chinese and Japanese who arrived in the period from 1880-1921. Kraut argues that immigration to America was but one of the many choices available to the immigrants, and that individual aptitude and desires were just as influential as cultural, social, and familial pressures to find a better life. The immigrants' impact on America and their new countrymen is also considered. Includes a very good, 32-page photographic essay.
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J.D. O'Neil is a member of one the full time fugitive teams created by Congress O'Neil is assigned the case of Javier Orellena Orellena has killed a police officer in El Salvador. Orellena has run back to the United States to run his part of the world's most dangerous street gang, Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. J.D. and his long time partner, Mike Tavaglia, are on the hunt again. Trouble brews when they discover exactly how high up the connections of the dead Salvadorian officer go on the world stage. With danger around every turn and a brutal cop killer their quarry, the two devoted officers use every trick learned from their decades on the street to bring him to justice. During the investigation, J.D.'s job, the life of his children and his colleagues are placed in harm's way, and not everyone survives.The good guys always win, but at what cost? The bullets fly and blood flows from places that J.D. would never had imagined..
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Irregular migration, including trafficking in migrants, has emerged as a major international challenge. It now represents one-quarter of the total yearly inflow in the United States and as much as one-half in Europe. At the global level some US$7 billion is channelled every year into human trafficking. Its close links with trafficking in arms and drugs, and with prostitution of women and child abuse, make it an increasingly alarming menace, undermining both social peace and international order. One of the most complete and penetrating treatments of the subject to date, this volume unveils the complexities of contemporary irregular migration and discerns its possible remedies. An incisive discussion on issues of definition is followed by a critical analysis of the causes and conditions of irregular migration and its social and economic effects in both sending and receiving countries. Its searching analysis of current national measures against irregular migration clarifies the reasons for their relative inadequacies. The bold conclusions are shaped into a coherent, comprehensive, and forward-looking strategy to combat irregular migration. The professional rigour and lucidity of the discussion make this timely book valuable to policy-makers, researchers and practitioners alike..
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Title: Our huddled masses yearning to be free.(publisher's NOTAbene)
Author: Hoyt Zia
Publication:Hawaii Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 51 Issue: 8 Page: 10(1)

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Migration and immigration are presently taking place at an unprecedented rate around the world. The potential for chaos and crisis for the nations playing host to diverse groups of immigrants and refugees is quite apparent. While in some nations multiculturalism and diversity are praised and being integrated into educational curricula, anti-immigrant sentiment runs high in others. Making a multidisciplinary examination of the social implications of immmigration, this work addresses the issue from three points of view - communication, environment-behaviour, and architecture and design. From communications studies, significant issues relate to nonverbal and interpersonal communication and mass media availability and use. From the field of environment-behaviour studies, the authors take culturally different perceptions of environment, issues of place attachment, and the impact of the built environment on communicative behaviour. The field of architecture and design studies isolates culturally defined needs and demands placed on the built environment as worthy of enquiry. The purpose of this book is to make available to researchers and students of intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication and media studies, and environmental designers, architects, geographers and environmental psychologists the current research into the influence of communication patterns on cultural adaptation necessitated by immigration..
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