Immigration Books

this book was assigned reading for a college course and i absolutely loved it. it gives accurate descriptions of what puerto ricans were like during the pioneer migration is the early 20th century and the great migration during the 40s and 50s. Great reading overall.

A Puerto Rican woman with a Ph.D in Puerto Rican Studies who teaches Puerto Rican studies has written this survey book about Puerto Ricans. At first, this book looked really simplistic, like it could have been called "Get to know Puerto Ricans" or something. However, it turns out that this book is a part of a series to introduce Americans to the new face of immigrants; it's a very-needed, pro-immigrant, anti-xenophobic series. I also wondered why this is such an easy and quick read and then I discovered that the book is written for high school students, though I found it in a university library. Still, this would be a good, quick reference books for any ethnic studies majors at the undergraduate level. Puerto Ricans may find the info here a given and already known, but for non-Puerto Ricans, it will be a great learning, introductory resource. For those who live outside New York and know that Mexican-Americans are the majority Latino group, it will be interesting to read phrases such as "Puerto Ricans and other Latinos" as opposed to "Mexican-Americans and other Latinos." The cover is gorgeous: I want to meet the hot woman and man on the cover more than I want to meet the author! This book celebrates the triracial background of Puerto Ricans being Taino, African, and Spanish. The author breaks the black-white paradigm by not only discussing Puerto Ricans' relationships with those two groups but also with non-Puerto Rican Latinos, Jews, and Asians. I did feel this book was a little scant on the debates about Puerto Rican independence. Still, this was an informative "Who's Who of Puerto Ricans?" text. For example, I never knew Jimmy Smits was Puerto Rican (I had only heard about his father's heritage, Surinamese). Also, the author notes that many famous people that are grouped as African-American are also part-Puerto Rican (Clayton Powell IV, Sammy Davis, etc.). Finally, there's something I like that the author probably didn't intend: I thought this was a great book about a US territory. Most students have to do reports on Nebraska, Delaware, or Wyoming sooner or later. But few Mainlanders realize that the people in Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Island are our peers. This book will help to overcome this problem. I liked this book and plan on reading more in the series. As a non-Puerto Rican, I learned a lot.

All boricuas need to read this book. I repeat they need to read this book.
It will unveil the sacrifices that entail carrying Puerto Rico deep in
the heart. An outstanding reference book for everyone that loves truth.

This bookis about a family that is going West. They want to have more land to grow potatoes.Whenthey were traveling they ate corn soup and smoked meat. They sang Old Nowegian songs. This is a great book and it is very exciting. I gave it 5 star because of that.

This is a well researched book that does a great job of presenting a history of and analysis of the Indian indentured worker population in Trinidad. It explores the origins of the plan to bring Indians over, the background of those brought over and how they were dealt with legally and in reality.

Plenty of original sources are cited and used. For this issue I would say this is the best place to start.

This outstanding collection of 26 different personal accountsby young immigrants and refugees in the United States should berequired reading for all Americans. Yale Strom has tapped into a wonderfully rich resource by allowing the 10-17 year olds in his book share their own stories, experiences, and perspectives on coming to America.

Each account is only 2-3 pages, but each provides vivid insights into the struggles and challenges families face when having to begin life over again in a society that not only speaks a different language, but is often critical and prejudiced toward these newest Americans.

Countries from around the globe are represented, from Ethiopia to Latvia, and from Puerto Rico to Fiji. Each teenager is an example of the incredible resiliency of the human spirit. The wisdom of these young immigrants is often profound and surprising. 13-year-old Alexander Collazos moved from Lima, Peru to San Francisco. He writes, "In Peru, people just seem more sincere. When people are walking down the street here [U.S.] they say, 'Hi, how are you?' They really don't care how you are. [...] I feel more at home in Lima. [...] They can say whatever they want on the television about terrorism in Peru, but I feel safer there than here."

This is a great book for anyone, but particularly for teachers and students. Information on each country represented is provided in the margins, as well as a world map and a helpful index. The photos only add to the personal and emotional nature of each student's contribution.

Reading this book has changed some of my preconceived notions about the immigrant experience and has reminded me that people around the world are linked together by the common need to feel safe and accepted, regardless of their language or country of origin.

A fsacinating account of the parallel development of American soccer and the textile industry in the northeastern United States in the late 1800s. Doucments how the ever growing wave of immigrants who were searching for a better way of life brought their skills to the textile industries in the West Hudson region of New Jersey and the New Bedford-Fall River region of southeastern New England. These immigrants also brought over their love for soccer, and soon these were two of the major hotbeds of soccer in the Northeastern United States.

This book covers both of these developments in extensive detail, shedding light on how the immigrant communities played a crucial role in preserving the game of soccer in this country at a time when the Amnerican colleges had abandoned soccer in favor of football. Well written, full of interesting stories, this book fills a major gap in the historical record of early American soccer.

Excuse the self-promotional 5-star rating. I had to fill that field to submit these comments. I found my book sitting here lonely without a comment and thought I would offer a few words to help out anybody browsing through these pages.

This is not a page-turner book. Rather, it is a handbook designed to help people who believe in lower immigration for the U.S. The book is intended to help such persons so that they can debate or discuss their side of the issue with confidence, credibility and effectiveness -- whether on radio call-in shows, in public forums or just with friends, family or colleagues.

Have you ever heard somebody say that this country cannot reduce immigration because WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS?

Or have you heard that we have to keep this level of immigration and the massive U.S. population boom it is causing because OUR ECONOMY WOULD COLLAPSE WITHOUT THIS LEVEL OF IMMIGRATION, or WE HAVE TO HAVE ALL THESE FOREIGN WORKERS BECAUSE THEY DO JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO?

Well, this book if full of rejoinders to just such claims.

I wrote this book for the national high school debates of 1996. More than 7,000 high schools used this book in preparing the "pro" side of the debate on whether the United States should further restrict immigration.

The book is divided into dozens of sections, each with an argument AGAINST restricting immigration to numbers lower than the current level of around 1 million legal immigrants a year. Legal immigration is running more than four times higher than the less than 250,000 annual average during the first 200 years up to 1976.

Under each one of those arguments for high immigration, I provide multiple rebuttals from some of the country's key experts on economics, the environment, history and ethics, each with citations to published sources.

Congress for years has been charting a course of forced population growth that already has used quadrupled immigration levels to coerce U.S. population from 203 million at the 1st Earth Day in 1970 to nearly 290 million in 2003. Under current immigration policies, our population will hit 404 million in 2050 and 571 million in 2100.

The fertility rate of U.S. natives has been below the 2.1 replacement level since 1972.

Immigration policies are the only reason Americans must live today in a rapidly increasing population.

The President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development in 1996 pointed out that we can re-chart America's future. We don't have to live with constant sprawl, congestion and destruction of natural habitat, farmland and open spaces. We can choose a more stable future by lowering immigration.

This book answers all the arguments the high-immigration advocates make for why America should not seek to slow and then halt massive population growth.

I hope you find the book as helpful as the thousands of people who have already used it.

This book was extremely helpful to my Fifth graders. They were so excited by the concepts presented in the book.

This well-researched book documents the significant history of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, from the turn of the century until the Great Depression. Immigrants from Mexico called their new life in Los Angeles México afuera, or Mexico outside, describing the process through which their new American lives emerged from the old ways and customs. The book is interesting enough to appeal to a wide audience, beyond the scholarly and university audience for which it was written.

Esto bien-investigo' documentos del libro la historia significativa de americanos mexicanos en Los Ángeles, de la vuelta del siglo hasta la gran depresión. Los inmigrantes de México llamaron su nueva vida en Los Ángeles México de afuera, o México afuera, describiendo el proceso con el cual sus nuevas vidas americanas emergieron de las viejos maneras y costumbres. El libro es bastante interesante de abrogar a una audiencia ancha, más allá de las audiencias de estudiante y de la universidad para quienes fue escrito.