Cover Image

Illegal immigration in America : a reference handbook /

Few issues have provoked as much controversy over the last decade as illegal immigration. While some argue for the need to seal America's borders and withdraw all forms of social and governmental support for illegal migrants and their children, others argue for humanitarian treatment--including...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Haines, David W., Rosenblum, Karen Elaine.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Subjects and Genres:
Noncitizens > Government policy > United States.
Noncitizens > United States.
Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States.
Illegal immigration > United States.
Noncitizens.
Undocumented Immigrants
Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis.
Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Immigration clandestine > États-Unis.
Immigrants clandestins.
Illegal immigration.
Noncitizens > Government policy.
Illegale Einwanderung
Illegale buitenlanders.
Vreemdelingenbeleid.
United States.
USA.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of contents only
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : problematic labels, volatile issues / David W. Haines and Karen E. Rosenblum
  • Labor migration, family integration, and the New America / Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield
  • Undocumented immigration to the United States : numbers, trends, and characteristics / Jeffrey S. Passel
  • Mexico and U.S. policy on illegal immigration : a fifty-year retrospective / Katherine M. Donato and Rebecca S. Carter
  • Unauthorized workers in U.S. agriculture : old versus new migrations / Philip L. Martin
  • Social and cultural bases for undocumented immigration into the U.S. poultry industry / David Griffith
  • Undocumented immigrants and the meatpacking industry in the Midwest / Janet E. Benson
  • Undocumented Latino immigrant workers : the Los Angeles experience / Enrico A. Marcelli
  • Salvadorans and Nicaraguans : refugees become workers / Cecilia Menjívar
  • Illegal Europeans : transients between two societies / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
  • Migration from the Caribbean : economic and political factors versus legal and illegal status / Samuel Martínez
  • Smuggled Chinese in the mountain of gold / Ko-lin Chin
  • Refugees at risk : the sanctuary movement and its aftermath / Victoria Rader
  • Labor at risk : the exploitation and protection of undocumented workers / David W. Haines
  • Rights at risk : California's Proposition 187 / Karen E. Rosenblum
  • Maintaining and reunifying families : two case studies of shifting legal status / Lucy M. Cohen
  • Border crossings, border control : illegalized migrants from the other side / Duncan M. Earle
  • Vanishing acts : illegal immigration in Canada as a sometime social issue / Norman Buchignani and Doreen Indra
  • Illegal immigration in Europe : balancing national and European Union issues / Deborah R. Altamirano
  • Illegal immigration in Asia : regional patterns and a case study of Nepalese workers in Japan / Keiko Yamanaka
  • An introduction to the literature / David W. Haines.

Need Help?

Search Tips Research By Mail Contact the Library

Similar Items