The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants' Responses: Past and Present

ISBN-13: 9783631671993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str.

Agnieszka Maek; Dorota Praszaowicz

Opis

The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

America Beckons but Americans Repel: East European Migration and American Nativism - Not Legally Bound: Denying, Discouraging, and Dissolving Marriages in U.S. immigration policy - Jewish Ambivalence: The Responses to Open Admission at City University of New York - The Role of the State in Contemporary Polish Political Migration and Return Migration

O autorze

Dorota Praszalowicz is Professor of sociology at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She teaches courses on world migrations, migration theories, and on ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the U.S., especially on Polish, Jewish and German groups.

Agnieszka Malek is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of American Studies and Polish Diaspora of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Her research and teaching interests include anthropology of migration, migration policy, immigration in contemporary Italy, Italian American culture and second-generation immigrants.