Unguarded gates : a history of America's immigration crisis
"In this work, immigration scholar Otis L. Graham Jr. examines the history of immigration pressures and American policy debates and choices. He begins with the first "Great Wave" of the 1880s and traces the effects of the system of national origins, enforced from the 1920s through 1965. The reforms of the 1960s ushered in an era of large-scale legal and illegal immigration, resulting in a vast social experiment in demographic transformation. In assessing the past, present, and future of immigration, Graham shows that the failure to control the influx of foreigners is leading America toward further security risks, unsustainable population growth, imported worker competition with American labor, and, ultimately, social fragmentation."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md., ©2004
Congress
xvi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780742522282, 9780742522299, 0742522288, 0742522296
52197466
PART I: IMMIGRATION ISSUES FROM THE FOUNDERS TO THE CREATION OF A SYSTEM OF LIMITATION: Nation of the native born unready for the great wave
Immigration reform: beginnings of national policy
Great wave and the search for national policy
Labeling of reformers
In search of national immigration policy
Reform comes: new system for choosing and limiting America's immigrants
PART II: BENEFITS AND EROSION OF THE NATIONAL ORIGINS SYSTEM: Immigration restriction: results and reflections
Reform of the reform? Gate-widening counterattack quietly begins
Forties and Fifties: regulated immigration: popular, and under global pressure
PART III: SECOND GREAT WAVE AND THE RETURN OF MASS IMMIGRATION: Immigration reform again: road to the 1965 Immigration Act
Mass immigration builds momentum: refugees unlimited
Illegal immigration; "Peaceful invasion" and policy ineptitude
Case for restriction: economics
Case for restriction: concerns over national cohesion
Case for restriction: immigration's population-environment connection
PART IV: STRANGE POLITICS OF POROUS BORDERS: PRESENT AND FUTURE: Politics of immigration: the 1990s
September 11: a turning point?
Our mass immigration era: how can this be?
Dogmas of the past