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In his global perspective and analytic treatment, Reed Ueda goes beyond a narrative historical account of twentieth-century American immigration to focus on the global and international forces that prompted the large-scale uprooting and transplanting of people following World War II.

Reed Ueda, associate professor of history at Tufts University, has taught at Brandeis University and Harvard University. Ueda has received fellowship awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has been on the advisory boards of the University of Chicago School Review, the Harvard Educational Review, American Quarterly, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He has explored the social history of education, urbanization, and immigration in West End House (1981) and Avenues to Adulthood (1987) and has served as research editor of the award-winning Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980).

Foreword

iii

Preface

v

Introduction: The Historical Context of Immigration

1

(4)

The Changing Waves of Immigration

5

(2)

The Matrix of Push and Pull

7

(2)

The Ebb and Flow of Immigration

9

(2)

Immigrants in the Early Twentieth Century

11

(7)

The Legacy of Restriction

18

(24)

The Retreat to Restrictionism

18

(8)

The Origins of Immigration Policy

18

(1)

Restrictions on Asian Admissions

19

(1)

The Creation of an Omnibus Restrictive Policy

20

(4)

Transition to an Omnibus Selective Policy

24

(2)

The Decline of Return Migration

26

(1)

Toward Unified and Restricted Naturalization

26

(5)

The System of Discriminatory Naturalization

27

(3)

The Centralized Administration of Naturalization

30

(1)

The Continuing Influx after Restriction

31

(11)

Exodus from Canada and Mexico

32

(4)

The Airplane Migration from Puerto Rico

36

(1)

The Rise of the Refugee Class

36

(2)

Continuation of the Demographic Shift

38

(4)

The Transformation of Policy

42

(16)

The Path to a Worldwide Immigration Policy

42

(10)

The McCarran-Walter Act

43

(1)

The Hart-Celler Act

44

(4)

The Immigration Reform and Control Act

48

(1)

The Expansion of Refugee Legislation

49

(3)

The Liberalization of Naturalization Policy

52

(1)

The Globalization of Immigration

52

(6)

Push and Pull Factors in the Postindustrial Era

53

(5)

The Changing Face of Post-1965 Immigration

58

(25)

An Imbalanced Worldwide Immigration

58

(16)

The New Asian Immigrants

64

(4)

The New Latin American Immigrants

68

(3)

The West Indian and Haitian Immigrants

71

(2)

The Declining Factor of European Immigration

73

(1)

Seeding the New Frontier of Immigrant Colonies

74

(9)

The Making of a World Melting Pot

83

(34)

Patterns of Social Mobility

86

(14)

The Structure of Economic Opportunity

86

(2)

The Ethnic Dimensions of Economic Progress

88

(3)

Asian Patterns of Mobility

91

(1)

Hispanic Patterns of Mobility

92

(1)

West Indian and Haitian Patterns of Mobility

93

(1)

The Changing Face of Mobility and Inequality

94

(2)

Educational Gains

96

(2)

Linguistic Assimilation

98

(2)

Family and Population

100

(6)

Fertility and Immigration

100

(4)

Intermarriage

104

(2)

Transitions in Identity and Community

106

(3)

The Societal Impact of Changing Immigration

109

(8)

The Immigrant and American Democracy

117

(32)

The Path to American Citizenship

117

(17)

The Changing Distance between Aliens and Citizens

119

(4)

Naturalization of Aliens

123

(6)

Learning American National Identity

129

(5)

The Expanding Role of Government in Ethnic Relations

134

(15)

Toward Equal Opportunity for New Americans

134

(3)

The Rise of Official Group Identity

137

(12)

Immigration and the National Future

149

(24)

APPENDICES

Appendix A. Additional Tables

156

(13)

Appendix B. Chronology of Immigration and Naturalization Policy

169

(4)

Index

173

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Postwar Immigrant America : A Social History

Postwar Immigrant America : A Social History

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