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Issues in U. S. Immigration by Salem Press Editors
Publication Date: 2014-12-01

These essays places special emphasis on the many ethnic communities that have provided American immigrants and explores immigration from a wide variety of perspectives, such as border control, law enforcement, court cases, demographics, discrimination, economic and labor issues, events, family issues, government and politics, illegal immigration, language and education, laws and treaties, literature, nativism and racism, refugees, religion, sociological theories, and stereotypes.

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The following Overviews are from the Encyclopedia of American Studies. Each entry takes about 5-15 minutes to read and gives a brief history of each people group as immigrants or assimilates into the United States.