David A. Gerber - Table of Contents

American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
By David A. Gerber
Oxford Press
2011
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Excerpted on this Website with permission. © 2011 David A. Gerber


Pledge of allegiance; the myth of free choice immigration:


Ben Franklin Anti-German:



Asians barred from immigrating:


Anti-Southern, Central & Eastern European Immigration:



1920s KKK:


Anti-Mexican Immigration; US Border Patrol:



Dual citizenship:


Potatoes:


Affluence and immigration:



Importance of land for Europeans:


Importance of skills:




Irish men and women:



"Birds of passage" on steamships:


Temporary American employment:


Japanese:


World record immigration numbers:

Henry Ford:


Apology to Japanese:


Immigrants benefit from politics:

            

Conservative Huntington sees downfall of American culture: 
 

Mexican immigrants  find work:


Mexicans progress slowly:


Affirmative action and immigrants:


America as a global society:


America's need for  immigrants:



America's greatest achievement:
Text © 2011 David A. Gerber
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