Any book recommendations for the immigration issue?

[DerekG]

The immigration issue has bothered me for some time and I would appreciate any recommendations for books that addresses said issue with fairness, or makes a case for its particular stance with rationality (and this means pro-immigration AND anti-immigration positions).

Thanks.

[La_Serpiente]

1. Are you talking about Immigration in general?

Or certain Ethnic Groups?

Here is one called Mexifornia

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1893554732/qid=1071710503/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-9261856-8907900?v=glance&s=books

Kind of right wing if you ask me.

You can also look at Michelle Malkin

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895261464/qid=1071710503/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-9261856-8907900?v=glance&s=books

But let me remind you that she is a pundit - I don't think she is the type of academic scholar you find in universities - so take her words with caution.


On Edit: I think conservatives take a more "national security" perspective on immigration. I also think that that some conservatives, like Buchanan, do not want immigrants to dilute American culture. But that is just my opinion.

You can also read some personal histories

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=4NTXZ1Y2XU&isbn=0674008383&TXT=Y&itm=4

Look at the Center for Immigration Studies

http://www.cis.org/

They are very reliable. Non-partisan.

Here is a list of scholarly publications from them

http://www.cis.org/articles/index.html

http://www.cis.org/articles/index.html

I am an Ethnic Studies major and when I look at immigration from a liberal perspective, I tend to analyze each ethnic groups journeys here to America. They all come from different countries and they bring their own culture with them. Do they assimilate? Or did they almalmagate? Big difference. Preferably, I would want an environment that would allow them to amalmagate. The assimilation perspective is almost like taking a puritanical and absolutist view towards Immigration. But hey, you decide.

So most of the books I read are the historical aspects of immigration. Immigration policy, things like that. Immigration Reform act of 1965.

Japanese Immmigration pre-WW II. Mexican deportation during the 1930s. Tongan migration. Things like that.

Is it different now? Maybe. But immigrants still face the difficult aspects of finding their place in American society.

My textbook,

Here is something from Puerto Rican

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0231110774-1

Here is a history of Immigration

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0231111894-0

I reccomend you start off with this book so you have a good foundation.

Also this

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0060921005-11

or this

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=16-0231109571-0

Enjoy !