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Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical material, and based on the author's three-decade experience in refugee research and policy, this provides an integrated portrait of American immigration—and of American engagement with the world. It shows how refugees and their American hosts continue to struggle with national and ethnic identities and the effect this struggle has had on American institutions and attitudes.

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Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical material, and based on the author's three-decade experience in refugee research and policy, this provides an integrated portrait of American immigration—and of American engagement with the world. It shows how refugees and their American hosts continue to struggle with national and ethnic identities and the effect this struggle has had on American institutions and attitudes.

An introduction to the United States as a nation of immigrants and to the full complexities, challenges, and triumphs of the lives of those immigrants. Evokes both the United States experience and the implications of human mobility in an interconnected world.

An introduction to the United States as a nation of immigrants and to the full complexities, challenges, and triumphs of the lives of those immigrants. Evokes both the United States experience and the implications of human mobility in an interconnected world.

This volume introduces the reader to an important set of newcomers to America. Two overview chapters introduce the U.S. refugee program and the general patterns in resettlement and adaptation. The chapters cover the origins of the program, its development through successive waves of refugees and layers of legislation, the life experiences that refugees bring with them, the problems they must confront, and the ways they rebuild their lives. The...

Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as a crossing of cultural and social categories that reveals the extra...

An examination of the interaction of immigrants and native-born people in the USA. It offers insight into the dynamics of these interactions at the local level while simultaneously sketching the shape of an America that is both changing and recreating its past.

?Refugees in the United States is a comprehensive study whose purpose is to provide information on a growing segment of our population for serious students of the subject as well as for the general reader. The content of the book is far more extensive than the title suggests, providing background on the history of each refugee group's homeland... The first section provides a general overview of the refugee program, the initial adjustments refu...