Immigration / [compiled by] H.W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services.
"Presidential candidate Donald Trump's recent proposals to devote large amounts of federal spending into deporting all undocumented immigrants and to build a wall between the United States and Mexico are only two of the latest controversial ideas in the ongoing discussion over immigration....
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| Language: | English |
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Amenia, New York :
Grey House Publishing,
2016.
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| Edition: | [First edition]. |
| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 88, no. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Politics, the law, and immigration reform. Politics and reform in an immigrant nation ; Immigration reform: corporate demands trump human rights / Michelle Chen ; Hey! Who left the border open? / Emily Cadei ; American limbo / Jeffrey Toobin ; Miscalculation on visas disrupts lives of highly skilled immigrants / Julia Preston ; The front line against birthright citizenship / Jonathan Blitzer
- 2. Immigration labor, activism, and human rights. Laboring for human rights ; Illegal immigrant detention centers rife with abuses, U.S. Civil Rights Commission report finds / Stephen Dinan ; Immigrant labor, immigrant rights / David Bacon ; Mexican migration-corridor hospitality / Alejandro Olayo-Méndez, Stephen Nathan Haymes, and Maria Vidal de Haymes ; How immigrant activists changed L.A. / Manuel Pastor ; Deadly human trafficking business on Mexico-US border / Axel Storen Weden
- 3. Popular conceptions, stereotypes, and biases. Immigration myths and misconceptions ; More than half the nation's governors say Syrian refugees not welcome / Ashley Fantz and Ben Brumfield ; Turning away refugees won't fight terrorism, and might make it worse / Nick Stockton ; Report aims to debunk anti-immigration myths / Yasmin Anwar ; Immigrants and crime: crunching the numbers / Catherine E. Shoichet ; For illegal immigrants with babies, the anchor pulls in many directions / Pamela Constable ; The telling way white Americans react to pictures of dark-skinned immigrants / Jeff Guo
- 4. Education, culture, and families. Immigrant family value ; Schools brace for the influx of immigrants / Lesli A. Maxwell ; In U.S. schools, undocumented youths strive to adjust / Corey Mitchell ; Supreme Court guards education for undocumented immigrants / Julie Underwood ; Immigration: assimilation and the measure of an American / Stephanie Hanes ; Requirements keep young immigrants out of Long Island classrooms / Benjamin Mueller ; Bilingualism: when education and assimilation clash / Melinda D. Anderson ; Children of immigration / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco & Carola Suárez-Orozco
- 5. Global and domestic economies. The economic impact of immigration ; Globalization and NAFTA caused migration from Mexico / David Bacon ; The fear of "not enough to go round" / Bridget Anderson ; Let the kids stay / Franklin Foer ; The most entrepreneurial group in America wasn't born in America / Adam Bluestein ; The economics of Syrian refugees / John Cassidy.