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9781469630267 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, January 9, 2017, cover price $95.00

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9781469630274 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, January 9, 2017, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation—an emergent global order of social injustice—reaches far beyond the individual deportee, as family members with diverse U...read more

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9780520287068 | Univ of California Pr, May 10, 2016, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.

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Product Description: For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical context...read more

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9780807835487 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 7, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American.

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9781469628349 | Reprint edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 2016), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American.

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Product Description: How the immigration battle plays out in America, from curriculum disputes to federal raids to the civil rights activism of young "Dreamers." Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing media stir up panic over "anchor babies," job stealing, welfare dependence, bilingualism, al-Qaeda terrorists disguised as Latinos, even a conspiracy by Latinos to "retake" the Southwest...read more

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9780262028929 | Mit Pr, March 13, 2015, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: How the immigration battle plays out in America, from curriculum disputes to federal raids to the civil rights activism of young "Dreamers.

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Product Description: During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families. Faced with fewer legalization options, immigrants without legal status and their supporters have organized around the concept of the family as a political subject—a political subject with its rights violated by immigration laws...read more

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9780813564579 | Rutgers Univ Pr, November 30, 2014, cover price $90.00

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9780813564562 | Rutgers Univ Pr, November 30, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: During the past ten years, legal and political changes in the United States have dramatically altered the legalization process for millions of undocumented immigrants and their families.

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9780520278189 | Univ of California Pr, September 5, 2014, cover price $75.00

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9780520278196 | Univ of California Pr, September 5, 2014, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: Examining actual policy to identify the facts, this book exposes how racially charged political and legal debates over immigration reform in the United States continue to inform our immigration policy.• Covers policies pertaining to immigrants and immigration reform and relates these policies to associated topics such as language, bilingual education, housing, borders, and voting rights• Provides immigration policy analyses that are engaging and accessible to a wide range of readers• Examines past policy actions as well as findings from recent case studies, allowing readers to grasp the specific racial dimensions intertwined in these controversial policies and debate...read more

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9781440831249 | Praeger Pub Text, February 17, 2014, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Examining actual policy to identify the facts, this book exposes how racially charged political and legal debates over immigration reform in the United States continue to inform our immigration policy.

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Product Description: Ferraro expands the current focus of the immigration-crime link to incorporate both the effect of immigration on anti-immigrant violence and the differential processes at work in new immigrant destinations. The findings on traditional crime are consistent with recent research and the community resource perspective, in that there is no observed effect of immigration on overall rates of crime, whether in traditional receiving areas or in new destinations...read more

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9781593326999 | Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc, October 15, 2013, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Ferraro expands the current focus of the immigration-crime link to incorporate both the effect of immigration on anti-immigrant violence and the differential processes at work in new immigrant destinations.

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9781416586821, titled "The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America About Health, Happiness, and Hope" | Free Pr, October 18, 2011, cover price $26.00

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9781416586838, titled "The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America About Health, Happiness, and Hope" | Reprint edition (Free Pr, September 21, 2013), cover price $16.99

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9780814789834 | New York Univ Pr, April 23, 2012, cover price $75.00

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9781479885558 | Reprint edition (New York Univ Pr, July 1, 2013), cover price $25.00

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9780807753903 | Teachers College Pr, December 21, 2012, cover price $67.00

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9780807753897 | Teachers College Pr, December 21, 2012, cover price $28.95

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Product Description: Lima studies the socialization of young, male Cape Verdean immigrants. Families, schools and neighborhoods play an important role. The fact that many parents did not speak English and could not read their society, led the young men to become cultural and language brokers at home...read more

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9781593324049 | Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc, December 15, 2011, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Lima studies the socialization of young, male Cape Verdean immigrants.

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9781884167553 | Umbrage Editions Inc, December 27, 2011, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker programs and focusing on the economic benefits of immigration, and the other proposing greater physical and other barriers to entry and focusing more on the perceived threat to national security from immigration...read more

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9780271048895 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, August 1, 2011, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border.

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9780271048901 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, September 30, 2011, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border.

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Product Description: I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and the rise of racial nativism in the United States...read more

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9780822350187, titled "I'm Neither Here Nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles With Migration and Poverty" | Duke Univ Pr, June 13, 2011, cover price $94.95 | About this edition: I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico.

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9780822350354, titled "I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty" | Duke Univ Pr, June 13, 2011, cover price $25.95

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What does it mean to be - or become - American amidst today's immigration debates? Deborah Schildkraut explores public opinion about the implications of American identity. Importantly, the book evaluates the claim that all Americans should prioritize their American identity instead of an ethnic or national origin identity. National identity can enhance participation, trust, and obligation. But it can also lead to threat and resentment, and, among members of minority groups, it can lead to alienation from political institutions and co-nationals.

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9780521191753 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 15, 2010, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: What does it mean to be - or become - American amidst today's immigration debates?

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9780521145244 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 15, 2010, cover price $29.99

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Product Description: A detailed and engaging historical examination that provides an intimate understanding of the daily life of the new immigrants in the United States.• Photographs depict scenes of immigrant daily life• A chronology of events outlines the main events in recent immigration history

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9780313363139 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 2, 2010, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A detailed and engaging historical examination that provides an intimate understanding of the daily life of the new immigrants in the United States.

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Product Description: This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation...read more

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9780230223950 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 15, 2009, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration.

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