Immigration in America Today

James Loucky, Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University, has worked with Latin American immigrant communities in the United States and Canada for twenty-five years. In addition to following the development of the transnational Maya population, he has collaborated with immigrant organizations and attorneys on refugee issues, community development, and education concerns. His teaching and research emphases include international migration, border regions, Latin America, human rights, and global problems.Jeanne Armstrong is Associate Professor at Western Washington University and librarian liaison for several departments and programs including American Cultural Studies for which she is also an instructor. She is the author of Demythologizing the Romance of Conquest, and has co-authored articles on teaching library research.Larry J. Estrada is Director of American Cultural Studies and Associate Professor at Fairhaven College, Western Washington University. His recent research and work includes the issues of immigration patterns between Mexico and the United States as well as the sociocultural implications of public policy related to indigenous folk healing and curanderismo in Mexico. Dr. Estrada has served as mayor of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, and as Chair of the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs.

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"E pluribus unum (one out of many) has been a civic motto of the US since the founding of the republic. As a nation comprising people from many different cultures, the US faces enormous challenges in regulating the process of becoming American. This new edited volume usefully addresses many elements of that complex process since the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. The editors commissioned 52 contributors from a variety of disciplines to prepare 81 alphabetical entries on varied aspects of the immigration issue from Achievement to Women. The entries are interdisciplinary and reflect the entanglement of immigration with economics, health care, education, and foreign policy, among other issues. Special attention is given to concerns about immigration since September 11, 2001. Missing from the volume are entries on specific ethnic groups or nations of origin. The volume concludes with an annotated chronology of US immigration legislation, an annotated bibliography, and a detailed index.....Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers." - Choice