Immigration & immigrant communities (1650-2016) / editor, James S. Pula
Published
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; [Amenia, New York] : Schlager Group, Inc. and Grey House Publishing, Inc., [2017]
In their own words: immigrant descriptions. A description of New-Netherland -- A voyage to America -- A Chinese letter to governor John Bigler -- Kleindeutschland in the 1850s -- Letter from an Irish immigrant -- How the Other Half Lives -- A Polish American protest of immigration restriction -- How I found America -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti's final courtroom statement -- An address by César Chávez -- Anti-immigrant rhetoric. Platform of the American Party -- Dillingham commission report -- "Shut the door" -- Speech on Mexican immigration -- Federal legislation. Naturalization Act of 1790 -- Homestead Act -- Fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- National Quarantine Act -- Chinese Exclusion Act -- Immigration Act of 1891 -- Immigration Act of 1917 -- Immigration Act of 1924 -- McCarran-Walter Act -- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 -- Executive and judicial actions. Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan -- Woodrow Wilson's third annual message to Congress -- Executive order 9066 -- Presidential veto of the McCarran-Walter Bill -- Plyler v. Doe -- Arizona v. the United States -- State of Texas v. United States -- Appendixes. Chronological list -- Web resources -- Bibliography
Summary
"This text explores the full history of immigration issues in America, from Adriaen van de Donck's description of the New Netherlands in 1650; to the 2012 opinions of Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia on the case of Arizona v. United States concerning states' rights and the enforcement of federal immigration laws; to the 2016 Supreme Court decision in United States v. Texas"--Publisher's description
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from electronic title page (Gale Virtual Reference Library, May 31, 2019)
