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Title Immigration in America today : an encyclopedia / edited by James Loucky, Jeanne Armstrong, and Larry J. Estrada.

Publication Info. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.

Call No.JV6465 .I4754 2006
LocationMoore Reference Room

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 Moore Reference Room  JV6465 .I4754 2006    Available  ---
Description xiii, 380 pages ; 27 cm
Note "The American mosaic"--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.
Contents LIST OF ENTRIES: Achievement -- Adoption -- Agencies -- Agricultural workers -- Assimilation -- Asylum -- Bilingual education -- Bilingualism -- Biological responses -- Border control -- Borderlands -- Children -- Citizenship -- Crime -- Demography -- Diasporas -- Documentation -- Domestic work -- Dual citizenship -- Effects of unauthorized immigration -- Emigration -- Employee sanctions -- Enslavement -- Ethnicity -- Expedited entry and removal -- Families - Family reunification -- Fertility -- Food -- Food processing -- Gangs -- Gender -- Global origins: Asia, Africa, and Europe -- Global origins: Latin America and the Caribbean -- Growth and development -- Guestworkers -- Health -- Human smuggling -- Immigrant education -- Immigration system -- Informal economy -- Interethnic relations -- International accords -- Jus soli -- Labor organization and activism -- Legalization -- Legislation -- Literature and film -- Marriage -- Mental health problems -- Mexico-U.S. migration -- Migrant education -- Migration processes -- Music -- National security -- Older persons -- Political participation -- Ports of entry -- Posttraumatic stress disorder -- Public charge -- Racism -- Refugee law and police -- Religion -- Remittances -- Residential patterns -- Return migration -- Rights -- Sexual orientation -- Skilled migration -- Social benefits -- Social mobility -- Social networks -- Stereotypes -- Sweatshops -- Temporary protected status -- Transnationalism -- Unauthorized immigration -- U.S.-Canada border -- U.S,-Mexican border -- Women -- Work.
Subject United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Encyclopedias.
United States.
Emigration and immigration.
Genre/Form Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias.
Added Author Loucky, James.
Armstrong, Jeanne.
Estrada, Lawrence J.
ISBN 0313312141 alkaline paper
9780313312144 alkaline paper
9780313312144