"This revelatory book chronicles the devastating human costs of deportation and the innovative strategies people have adopted to fight against the machine and redefine belonging in ways that transcend citizenship."--Page [3] of cover.

The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese...

Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Central American immigrants.

Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Filipino immigrants.

Explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups have evolved throughout U.S. history, from 1800 to today.

A dramatic, multi-vocal account of the personal agonies and ecstasies that played out within the walls of Ellis Island, as told by Poland's greatest living journalist.

Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Chinese immigrants.

"The United States has long been touted as a place where anyone with a little grit and determination could come to pursue the American Dream. But as more walls are erected and borders are closed, is that dream still alive today? A New History of Immigration introduces young readers to alternative histories of immigration beyond Ellis Island and amplifies the voices of marginalized immigrants and their stories of success"--

This encyclopedia provides a chronological study of the migration of various ethnic groups to the United States from 1500 to the present day.