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.
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United States. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias.
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Added Author |
Loucky, James.
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Armstrong, Jeanne.
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Estrada, Lawrence J.
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ISBN |
0313312141 alkaline paper |
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9780313312144 alkaline paper |
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9780313312144 |
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