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Us Immigration and Migration: Almanac: 2 Volume Set (U. S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library) - Hardcover
Synopsis
The Human Genome Diversity Project tells us that between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago people from Mongolia crossed Beringia to what we now call the Americas. "U.S. Immigration and Migration" chronicles and interprets the phenomenal waves of immigration to the United States from the earliest times through the period from 1820 to 1930, when the United States was the destination of some 60% of the world's immigrants -- up to the present day, when restrictive policies have temporarily stanched the flow of immigrants.
Features include 150 black-and-white photographs, including about 10 maps; chronology; sidebars; words to know; research and activity ideas; further reading; and a subject index. The "Almanac" volumes tell of the economic, religious and political forces that compelled people to seek a better life in a new land. These same forces later inspired the migration of many Americans to other areas in mass movements such as the Westward Expansion; the rural to urban migration; the Great Migration of blacks in the early part of the 20th century; and the migration to the Sunbelt starting in the 1960s.
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Synopsis
This chronicles and interprets the phenomenal waves of immigration to the United States from the earliest times through the period from 1820 to 1930, when the United States was the destination of some 60 per cent of the world's immigrants, up to the present day, when restrictive policies have temporarily staunched the flow of immigrants. It tells of the economic, religious and political forces that compelled people to seek a better life in a new land. It brings the panorama of immigration and migration to a personal level by profiling both prominent and less well-known people of the immigrant experience. Insights into the movements of people are provided in the "Primary Sources" volume via excerpts from such key documents as the Maryland Toleration Act (1649), the Homestead Act (1862) and the National Origins Act (1924), up to legislation passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
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