Authors: Reed Ueda
ISBN-13: 9780312075262, ISBN-10: 031207526X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Date Published: March 1994
Edition: 1st Edition
Reed Ueda, associate professor of history at Tufts University, has taught at Brandeis University and Harvard University. Ueda has received fellowship awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has been on the advisory boards of the University of Chicago School Review, the Harvard Educational Review, American Quarterly, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He has explored the social history of education, urbanization, and immigration in West End House (1981) and Avenues to Adulthood (1987) and has served as research editor of the award-winning Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980).
In his global perspective and analytic treatment, Reed Ueda goes beyond a narrative historical account of twentieth-century American immigration to focus on the global and international forces that prompted the large-scale uprooting and transplanting of people following World War II.
Ueda (history, Tufts U.) interprets the changing patterns of immigration to the US since WWII, discussing themes such as shifts from restrictive to liberal immigration laws, naturalization policies, refugees, and ethnic relations. He charts patterns of social mobility among groups including West Indians and Latin Americans, and allows immigrants to speak for themselves on their experiences. Includes b&w maps and charts, a chronology of immigration policy, and a summary of immigration before WWII. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction: The Historical Context of Immigration | 1 | |
The Changing Waves of Immigration | 5 | |
The Matrix of Push and Pull | 7 | |
The Ebb and Flow of Immigration | 9 | |
Immigrants in the Early Twentieth Century | 11 | |
1 | The Legacy of Restriction | 18 |
The Retreat to Restrictionism | 18 | |
The Origins of Immigration Policy | 18 | |
Restrictions on Asian Admissions | 19 | |
The Creation of an Omnibus Restrictive Policy | 20 | |
Transition to an Omnibus Selective Policy | 24 | |
The Decline of Return Migration | 26 | |
Toward Unified and Restricted Naturalization | 26 | |
The System of Discriminatory Naturalization | 27 | |
The Centralized Administration of Naturalization | 30 | |
The Continuing Influx after Restriction | 31 | |
Exodus from Canada and Mexico | 32 | |
The Airplane Migration from Puerto Rico | 36 | |
The Rise of the Refugee Class | 36 | |
Continuation of the Demographic Shift | 38 | |
2 | The Transformation of Policy | 42 |
The Path to a Worldwide Immigration Policy | 42 | |
The McCarran-Walter Act | 43 | |
The Hart-Celler Act | 44 | |
The Immigration Reform and Control Act | 48 | |
The Expansion of Refugee Legislation | 49 | |
The Liberalization Of Naturalization Policy | 52 | |
The Globalization of Immigration | 52 | |
Push and Pull Factors in the Postindustrial Era | 53 | |
3 | The Changing Face of Post-1965 Immigration | 58 |
An Imbalanced Worldwide Immigration | 58 | |
The New Asian Immigrants | 64 | |
The New Latin American Immigrants | 68 | |
The West Indian and Haitian Immigrants | 71 | |
The Declining Factor of European Immigration | 73 | |
Seeding the New Frontier of Immigrant Colonies | 74 | |
4 | The Making of a World Melting Pot | 83 |
Patterns of Social Mobility | 86 | |
The Structure of Economic Opportunity | 86 | |
The Ethnic Dimensions of Economic Progress | 88 | |
Asian Patterns of Mobility | 91 | |
Hispanic Patterns of Mobility | 92 | |
West Indian and Haitian Patterns of Mobility | 93 | |
The Changing Face of Mobility and Inequality | 94 | |
Educational Gains | 96 | |
Linguistic Assimilation | 98 | |
Family and Population | 100 | |
Fertility and Immigration | 100 | |
Intermarriage | 104 | |
Transitions in Identity and Community | 106 | |
The Societal Impact of Changing Immigration | 109 | |
5 | The Immigrant and American Democracy | 117 |
The Path to American Citizenship | 117 | |
The Changing Distance between Aliens and Citizens | 119 | |
Naturalization of Aliens | 123 | |
Learning American National Identity | 129 | |
The Expanding Role of Government in Ethnic Relations | 134 | |
Toward Equal Opportunity for New Americans | 134 | |
The Rise of Official Group Identity | 137 | |
6 | Immigration and the National Future | 149 |
Appendix A. Additional Tables | 156 | |
Appendix B. Chronology of Immigration and Naturalization Policy | 169 | |
Index | 173 |