About this title: Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic "nation of immigrants". The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children brought to the U.S. through adoption, Mexican laborers hired to work in the mid-west in the 1930s, Indian computer programmers hired to work in California, and more, are examined in a series of chapters that show the great diversity of issues facing immigrants in the past and in the present. ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780415306003ISBN:0415306000
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. 1. american identities in a global era donna gabaccia and colin wayne leach part one: the local and the nation in a transnational world 2. elusive citizensh1p: education, the press and the struggle over representtaion in ninteeth-century napa, california 1848-1910 linda heidenreich 3. the prehistory of the cadenú: class, corruption, and migration in santo domingo, 1965-1978 jesse hoffnung-garskof 4. between fantasy and despair: the transnational ... read more
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