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This volume features the most significant articles including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews to bring together the best scholarship on the topic. Ten signed articles, essays, and interviews are included in the volume.

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This engaging narrative chronicles the history of the immigration to America from the 1600s to the present. Also featured are a brief chronology of immigration and the biographies of 45 important figures in American immigration history.

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Immigration is a comprehensive and practical guide to the history, economics, and contributions of immigrants, written by a former key policymaker who is now a leading researcher in the field.

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Immigration and Ethnic Conflict reviews the experience of post-industrial countries that have experienced large-scale movements of population since the Second World War, creating ethnically diverse multicultural societies in a context of rapid economic, technological and social change.

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This study extends the literature analyzing the financial impact of immigration on local governments by developing a model for measuring revenue and expenditure changes associated with immigration.

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In the last decade Ireland's immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. This is the first major academic book to offer a detailed account of how immigrants in Ireland are faring and is the first to address the challenge of integration and social cohesion. -- .

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Despite this, this comprehensive reference source allows a glimpse of the same motivating factors that drove earlier immigrants through Ellis Island's gatesthe promise of economic opportunity and the hope of a better life.

Over 70 A-Z entries address topical and timely aspects of modern US immigration, including:

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Providing the reader with a history of immigration, the book examines the composition of the city's immigrant population and the various public and private social agencies that affect it, such as the city's health and education agencies, the refugee resettlement network, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

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Examines immigration, ethnicity and racism in Britain from 1815 to 1945. This book tackles four themes: why so many immigrants made their way to Britain during that time; the geographical, gender and economic divisions of newcomers; ethnicity; and the reactions of the British to the newcomers.

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Professor Ben-Sira, a world figure in medical sociology, advances the understanding of the factors that promote or impede readjustment of immigrants and of members of the absorbing society who may feel affected by that immigration.

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Presents a history of US immigration in primary source documents, tracing the roots of the debate in the history of our profoundly divided and surprisingly cyclical response to foreign immigration. This volume contains documents - each with notes explaining its context, significance, and effects - which identify the major waves of immigration.

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Argues that rhetoric about the moral corruption of children speaks to an ongoing parental concern: that children will fail to replicate or exceed their parents' social position. This book argues that the rhetoric of morality is more than symbolic and goes beyond efforts to control mass behavior.

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Why have American governments proved unable to redesign a welfare system that will satisfy anyone Are there constructive ways to think about welfare, poverty, and public education This book shows how interpretations of the past, grounded in analytic history, can free us of comforting myths and help us to reframe discussions of these issues.

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"At a time when quotas and preferences are under attack nationwide, Barbara Bergmann courageously show that without the help of affirmative action America will never be able to attain a truly race-blin"

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Arens and Lasswell show that many sanctioning arrangements now current in the U.S. are on their face inconsistent with the articulated goals of the American system of public order, and that in actual operation the goals of our system suffer chronic and substantial defeat.

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This volume examines the phenomenon of mass population migration from the Caribbean to North America and the United Kingdom and the social, cultural, and economic adaptation of the immigrants to their new environments.

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The extraordinary story of Australia's first legal injecting clinic provides important insights into the harrowing world of the addict and the outstanding efforts of a dedicated group of professionals.

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From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States. Russian Jewish emigration had ceased by the 1920s due to the effects of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Quota Acts, but a century later, Jews from the former Soviet Union began to emigrate in large numbers.

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This book analyses what generates the extreme inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods in contemporary societies across the world today. -- .

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This book analyses what generates the extreme inequalities in rights to income, property and public goods in contemporary societies across the world today. -- .

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This collection of studies by experts on drug abuse treatment represents the state of the art in research examining what works best and why in a nationwide effort to improve and expand treatment to counteract the epidemic use of cocaine and the spread of AIDS.