Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. General    3. Government policy    4. Illegal aliens    5. Immigrants    6. Law    7. Sociology    8. United States    9. Law / General   

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important issues
The point here is that plently of people do not migrate even when economics would seem to suggest migration should sky rocket.The works concentrate on European regions or generalize across the globe--but the point is important and suggest we don't always focus on the "big" picture when we talk about migration -- someone always stays home.For US scholars working on Mexican/US migration this is crucial stuff to consider ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Economic aspects    2. Economic development    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Emigration and immigration    5. Ethnic Studies - General    6. Human Geography    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Anthropology    10. Civil rights & citizenship    11. Immigration & emigration    12. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Ethnic Studies - General    4. Immigrants    5. Latin America - General    6. Mexican Americans    7. New York    8. New York (State)    9. Social Science    10. Social conditions    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General    13. Transnationalism    14. Ethnic studies    15. Social Science / Sociology / General   

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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Anthropology - Cultural    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Emigration and immigration    5. History    6. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    7. Population geography    8. Refugees    9. Semiotics & Theory    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Theater - General    13. HISTORY, MODERN_20TH CENTURY    14. Immigration & emigration    15. Social & cultural anthropology    16. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration   

Subjects:  1. 1945-1989    2. Congress    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Emigration And Immigration    5. Government - U.S. Government    6. Government policy    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Politics and government    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Social Science    11. United States    12. United States.    13. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    14. Political Science / General    15. Political science & theory    16. Population & demography   

Subjects:  1. Americas (North Central South West Indies)    2. California    3. Cambodian Americans    4. Civics & Citizenship    5. Civil rights    6. Emigration & Immigration    7. Ethnic Studies - General    8. Ethnic identity    9. Oakland    10. Social Science    11. Social conditions    12. Sociology    13. Cambodia    14. Ethnic studies    15. Immigration & emigration    16. Social & cultural anthropology    17. Social Science / Anthropology / General    18. USA   

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an interesting treatment of another aspect of conflict
Beginning with the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910, followed by its replacement by the United States in 1945, the military governments established a series of bases, and from around these bases grew camptowns, a section of businesses that offered everything from souvenirs to alcohol to prostitution.For her own extended metaphor, Yuh refers to the shadow, or influence, that is cast by these camptowns not only across the Korean landscape but also within the Korean people, most specifically the women who worked, often as indentured servants, within these camptowns and went on to marry soldiers.Yuh makes explicit her change in referring to these women as military brides over war brides.This does not obfuscate, however, the historical value of war brides as being equivalent to war booty and hence configured more as property, even as the remnants of this idea manifest in certain social attitudes (i.e., domestic subservience) that many of the American servicemen may have had toward their Korean wives.
Powerful and Well Written
As the author points out, there is very little work on international military wives, and Korean military wives in particular.By such a logic, this book is a welcome project indeed. A moving and eye-opening account
This book fills a need by covering Korean women who married American military men and their experiences in life, the prejudices they've encountered from other Koreans and white Americans, and how they stake out a place of meaning for themselves through church activities with other Korean military wives.Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Biography    3. Cultural assimilation    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies    6. History    7. History: World    8. Korean American women    9. Korean Americans    10. Military - Korean War    11. Social conditions    12. Sociology    13. Women's Studies - General    14. Cultural studies    15. Ethnic studies    16. Immigration & emigration    17. Korea    18. Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000    19. USA    20. War & defence operations    21. Women's studies   

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - General    2. Colonies    3. Culture    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. Europe    6. General    7. History    8. History: World    9. Indigenous peoples    10. Sociology    11. Colonization & independence    12. Social Science / Ethnic Studies   

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Operation Gatekeeper
Very well-documented.A useful and must-have source for anyone interested in Southwestern U.S. border enforcement issues.

A fantastic book
This book provides a great overview of the U.S.-Mexico border and a compelling analysis and explanation of how we arrived at the point we now find ourselves in terms of immigration and boundary enforcement. I had to read the book for an undergraduate class and found it to be a great way to conclude the course. The book totally challenged me in a way that few other books have.

From a 13 year Border Patrol veteran and first hand witness to Gatekeeper
All books have some value. That is the only value of this book.
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Subjects:  1. Border patrols    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Government - U.S. Government    4. Government policy    5. Illegal aliens    6. Mexican-American Border Region    7. Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. United States    12. Immigration & emigration    13. Mexico    14. Political Science / General    15. USA   

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Required Reading
I was required to read most of this book for grad work in Urban Education. Interesting material (for a required reading). The best of the books I've been required to read so far.

pretty good account of immigrant children
Children of immigrants covers the experiences of children of immigrants and their families through the past few decades when the United States has been receiving immigration from non-European countries and many of these new immigrants are non-English speaking so there are plenty of osbtacles in their way. The authors deal with such important issues of how immigrants arrive in this country. There are some families that come toghether while others may be split up. One spouse may come before the rest of the family or sometimes children are sent to live with family members before their parents come over. The question of identity is important. What culture do the children of immigrants feel closer to? What determines this? There are several factors such as parents, schools, peer groups and the larger society. Education is anouther big topic. Immigrants tend to put a high emphasis on education though immigrant children have varied education achievements. They can often be the best at school or towards the bottom. The authors look at how people such as parents, principals and teachers all affect education for immigrant children. Read more

Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Children of immigrants    3. Children's Studies    4. Developmental - Child    5. Emigration & Immigration    6. Emigration And Immigration    7. Multicultural Education    8. Psychology    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Sociology Of Children    12. United States    13. Child & developmental psychology    14. Children    15. Immigration & emigration    16. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Discrimination & Racism    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Government policy    5. History    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Public Policy - General    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. United States    11. American studies    12. Immigration & emigration    13. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    14. USA   

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puts a human face on the issue of immigrant education
Unsure of how you feel about bilingual education? Even more likely, don't really understand what bilingual education is? Read this book.Laurie Olsen helps us put a human face on what has become a political question. Her clear and well-written portrait of one school puts the issue of language, emotional and sensitive as it can be, in concrete terms of pragmatic educational effectiveness: You can't learn what you don't understand. For anyone who cares about this important issue, or even feels as though they should. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bilingual Education    2. Education    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Multicultural Education    5. Philosophy & Social Aspects    6. Sociology    7. Civil rights & citizenship    8. Immigration & emigration    9. Organization & management of education    10. USA   

Subjects:  1. 18th century    2. Administration    3. Antislavery movements    4. Colonies    5. Emigration & Immigration    6. Gender Studies    7. Great Britain    8. History    9. Slave trade    10. Slavery    11. Social Science    12. Sociology    13. Colonization & independence    14. Social Science / Gender Studies    15. World history: c 1750 to c 1900    16. c 1700 to c 1800    17. c 1800 to c 1900   

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It was amazing if you don't include the chapters on socialism
I thought the book was good. It had a great storyline and it's written in such a way that I really felt sorry for what the charcters were going through. When I finished reading the last few chapters I felt that they had nothing to do with the storyline really, and was just trying to push the ideas of socialism on you. The book would have been a lot better if they explained what was going to happen to the characters more, and got rid of the chapters on socialism. No offense to those who are socialist or believe in socialism though. I just thought the chapters on it just didn't work with the storyline really.

Great eye-opening book (that completely falls apart at the end)
This classic novel possibly had the greatest influence on American society of any book from the 20th century.Sinclair's gruesome (and thoroughly true!) descriptions of meat processing in the early 1900s shocked America into action.Teddy Roosevelt called for special hearings to investigate the Meat Industry, ultimately resulting in creation of the FDA and OSHA.American consumption of meat dropped precipitously and stayed low for a remarkable thirty years after the publication of "The Jungle."
Chicago as a Hell of a Town
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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Subjects:  1. Chicago (Ill.)    2. Fiction    3. Fiction - General    4. General    5. Historical - General    6. Lithuanian Americans    7. Political    8. Stockyards    9. Working class    10. Modern fiction    11. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration   

Editorial Review

This history of the place H. G. Wells once called "quietly immense" is a fine contribution to our understanding of how central immigrants have been to the American experience. Virginia Yans-McLaughlin and Marjorie Lightman, both historians, track the great historic waves of migration by which America was peopled following the first arrival of settlers from the British Isles; assemble documentary evidence of reaction to these newcomers, both hostile and sympathetic; and provide a set of study guides and questions for the use of high school students. ... Read more

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Short, concise, honestly informative.
Data is only one side to the realities existing in history.This work serves to balance the reader between cold, overhead retrospective data and warm, close-up human perspective creating a full picture of how we've arrived where we are.The first parts of the book are full of tables and graphs.This is followed by documents of the time, personal letters, court records... I highly recommend Ellis Island and the People of America to anyone interested in a brief (yet fufilling) picture of how the United States was populated. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ellis Island Immigration Stati    2. Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)    3. Ellis Island Immigration Station (New York, N.Y.)    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. Emigration and immigration    6. History    7. History - General History    8. Sociology    9. Sources    10. United States    11. United States - General    12. Civil rights & citizenship    13. Immigration & emigration    14. Social history    15. USA   

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La Cucaracha!
I highly recommend that any person interested in politics and Latinos take a look at Migra Mouse, a collection of editorial cartoons by Lalo Alcaraz, the artist behind the daily comic strip La Cucaracha. The cartoons cover politics from the last decade with an emphasis on Latinos and immigration.Alcaraz has a simple but effective drawing style that says more with a few pen strokes than a political pundit with a book contract. Alcaraz is one of the sharpest political cartoonists around today.By the way, I'm Anglo and I don't always agree with Mr. Alcaraz's point of view, but I'm here to say that regardless of your skin tone, political bent, or favorite flavor of Christmas tamale, you shouldn't ignore this wonderful cartoonist. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. American Satire And Humor    2. American wit and humor, Pictorial    3. Caricatures and cartoons    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. Emigration And Immigration    6. Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies    7. Fiction    8. Graphic Novels    9. Graphic Novels - General    10. Humor    11. Immigrants    12. Latin America - General    13. Multicultural Education    14. Political cartoons    15. Topic - Political    16. United States    17. English    18. Fiction / Graphic Novels    19. USA   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. American - General    3. American literature    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. History    6. History and criticism    7. Literary Criticism    8. Literature - Classics / Criticism    9. Minority authors    10. United States    11. Women and literature    12. Women authors   

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Human Geography    3. Social Science    4. Sociology    5. Plant ecology   

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Emigration and immigration    3. European Union countries    4. General    5. Government policy    6. Immigrants    7. Political Science    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Public opinion    11. Europe    12. European studies    13. Immigration & emigration    14. International relations    15. Political Science / General    16. Political control & freedoms    17. Political science & theory   

Subjects:  1. Aliens    2. Citizenship    3. Civics & Citizenship    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. History & Theory - General    6. Law    7. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Geography    10. Immigration law    11. Law / Emigration & Immigration    12. Political Philosophy    13. Sociology