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Subject(s)

• Public opinion—United States [Browse]
• United States—Emigration and immigration—Government policy [Browse]
• United States—Emigration and immigration—Public opinion [Browse]

Editor

• Gans, Judith [Browse]
• Replogle, Elaine M. [Browse]
• Tichenor, Daniel J., 1966- [Browse]

Summary note

This volume gives in-depth coverage of a wide range of themes and issues, thus providing a fully comprehensive handbook that tackles the issues that political science, history, and sociology majors are asked to explore and to write about as students and that they will grapple with later as policy makers and citizens.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 10, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""About the Editors""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""POLITICAL DEBATES: INTRODUCTION""; ""Chapter 1 - Legal Immigration Selection System""; ""Chapter 2 - Gender and Refugee Status""; ""Chapter 3 - Naturalization Process""; ""Chapter 4 - Legalization (Amnesty) for Unauthorized Immigrants""; ""Chapter 5 - Birthright Citizenship""; ""Chapter 6 - Immigrant Voting""; ""Chapter 7 - Nativism""; ""Chapter 8 - Federal Policy Versus Decentralized Policy""; ""Chapter 9 - U.S. Border Control""
• ""Chapter 10 - Immigrant Detention and Deportation Under the Obama Administration""""Chapter 11 - Arizona's S.B. 1070""; ""Chapter 12 - Driver's Licenses""; ""Chapter 13 - Crime""; ""ECONOMIC, LABOR, AND DEMOGRAPHIC DEBATES: INTRODUCTION ""; ""Chapter 14 - Cost to Taxpayers""; ""Chapter 15 - Depression of Wages and Price Levels""; ""Chapter 16 - Remittances""; ""Chapter 17 - H-1B Visas""; ""Chapter 18 - Temporary Worker Programs""; ""Chapter 19 - Secure ID Cards""; ""Chapter 20 - Worksite Enforcement""; ""Chapter 21 - Worksite Raids""; ""Chapter 22 - Population Growth""
• ""Chapter 23 - Environment and Immigration""""SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DEBATES: INTRODUCTION ""; ""Chapter 24 - Family-Based Immigration""; ""Chapter 25 - Cultural Assimilation""; ""Chapter 26 - Social and Political Integration""; ""Chapter 27 - Catholic Church and Immigration""; ""Chapter 28 - English as Official Language""; ""Chapter 29 - English Instruction in the Classroom""; ""Chapter 30 - Higher Education and Immigration Status""; ""Chapter 31 - Racial Profiling""; ""Chapter 32 - State and Local Law Enforcement""; ""Chapter 33 - Use of the Term ""Illegal Alien""""
• ""Appendix: Documents Highlighting Key Moments in U.S. Immigration History, 1924 to 2011""""INDEX""

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ISBN

• 1-4833-0605-4
• 1-322-30578-1
• 1-78268-239-2
• 1-4522-6665-4

OCLC

809360848

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