"In 1965, the Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quotas of the 1920s that had severely limited immigration to American from everywhere but Western Europe. The result was mass immigration from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. The wave of immigra…
"In 1965, the Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quotas of the 1920s that had severely limited immigration to American from everywhere but Western Europe. The result was mass immigration from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. The wave of immigra…
"Organizing While Undocumented explores immigrant youth's political activism and its legal consequences"--
"Organizing While Undocumented explores immigrant youth's political activism and its legal consequences"--
"This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices. Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting …
Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "illegal alien," and entering the str…
Whilst many undocumented migrants in the United States continue to exist in the shadows, since the turn of the millennium an increasing number have emerged within public debate, casting themselves against the dominant discursive trope of the "illegal alien," and entering the str…
"Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San Diego and Yuma, Arizona, has made it an important place for Mexican migrants attracted to the valley’s agricultural economy. In 1945…
A community of sugar cane workers from Japan strike for a wage increase in 1920 Oahu, straining relations between Japan and the United States, underscoring racial tensions between Japanese labor and the American sugar industry, and leading to the passage of the Japanese Exclusio…
A community of sugar cane workers from Japan strike for a wage increase in 1920 Oahu, straining relations between Japan and the United States, underscoring racial tensions between Japanese labor and the American sugar industry, and leading to the passage of the Japanese Exclusio…
A community of sugar cane workers from Japan strike for a wage increase in 1920 Oahu, straining relations between Japan and the United States, underscoring racial tensions between Japanese labor and the American sugar industry, and leading to the passage of the Japanese Exclusio…
by Malek, Alia, Korematsu, Karen
fromVoice of witness
In eighteen oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to workplace discrimination, bullying, or FBI surveillance and harassment. Includes…
"A stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, …
"The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how …
In 1882, the United States launched an unprecedented experiment in federal border control ... which promptly failed. The Chinese Must Go examines this formative moment when America's lackluster attempt to bar Chinese workers provoked a wave of anti-Chinese violence across the U.…
In 1882, the United States launched an unprecedented experiment in federal border control--which promptly failed. The Chinese Must Go examines this formative moment when America's lackluster attempt to bar Chinese workers provoked a wave of anti-Chinese violence across the U.S. …
