In this thorough study of Basque boardinghouses, Jeronima Echeverria offers a history of the institution that most deeply shaped Basque immigrant life. ...

The Golden Signpost, here in English translation, was an extremely popular guide for recent immigrants published in 1880s Cleveland. It offers today's reader fascinating insights into codes of behavior in the U.S. in the late nineteenth-century. ...

An extraordinary group portrait of the experiences of exiles from Hitler's Germany, told through contemporary, first-person accounts, many translated for the first time. ...

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants enter the United States each year, and the number appearing in U.S. courts is rising in many states. Immigrants in Courts addresses immigrants' access to justice in the United States and the procedural obstacles they face. Immigrants' cultural and linguistic dilemmas in court are explored through their words and the reports of judges, attorneys, and court interpreters. Techniques for responding to the ...

A penetrating and comprehensive analysis of the history of migration and refugees from a leading expert in the field. ...

Michigan's Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns during the peak years of migration in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Several Upper Peninsula communities had large Finnish populations and Finnish churches, lodges, cooperative stores, and temperance societies. Ishpeming and Hancock, especially, were important nationally as Finnish cultural centers, with Finnish newspapers, publishing houses, and ...

This classic makes available once again the wonderful story of the vibrant community of Italians, Spaniards, and Cubans that grew up around the cigar industry in Tampa, Florida, at the dawn of the dawn of the twentieth century. ...

Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden's parents erased his Irish heritage in the quest for respectability. In this passionate book he explores the losses wrought by such conformism and claims today's Irish-Americans need to re-inhabit their history and recognize that assimilation need not entail submission. ...

Public policy on immigration will be central to determining the form and character of U.S. society in the twenty-first century. The political Right has so far seized the initiative in defining the parameters of the discussion, in effect limiting national ...

International immigration to California has steadily increased over the past 30 years. Some observers are seeing the extreme diversity of California's population as the harbinger of where the nation is headed. The culmination of a comprehensive study of how immigration has changed over the past three decades, this book assesses the impact immigrants have made on California's economy and culture.
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