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Nonfiction. A broad historical overview of immigration to America from 1500 to the present that is informal, current in scholarship, comfortably written, and generous in spirit. Daniels (history, U. of Cincinnati) includes slavery, the successive waves of ethnic immigration, and the 20th century migrations of refugees within the context of evolving capitalism and world events. (c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
by Philippe Legrain
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pub. Date: June 2007
ISBN-13: 9780691134314 |
| Nonfiction. Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in the United States? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says--and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can¹t or won¹t do--and their diversity enriches us all. Left and Right, free marketeers and campaigners for global justice, enlightened patriots--all should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them. |
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