Immigration

Outline

Immigration to what is now the United States has been a contentious issue from the earliest days of the European settlement. Perhaps the earliest recorded incident of contention occurred over 350 years ago in 1654, when 23 Jewish refugees sought refuge into New Amsterdam, fleeing what they rightly believed would be the extension of the Portuguese Inquisition to Recife in Brazil. Peter Stuyvasant's objection to their settlement was rejected by the Dutch West Indies Company. The tension between those opposing further immigration on either social or economic grounds and those favoring it has continued over these three and a half centuries to this very day.

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Chapters

• David M. Reimers Migrants to America Since 1986
• Harriet O. Duleep Immigrant Skill Transferability and the Propensity to Invest in Human Capital
• Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller Modeling Immigrants’ Language Skills
• David A. Jaeger Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971–2000
• Sherrie A. Kossoudji Immigrant and Native Asset Accumulation in Housing
• Abdurrahman Aydemir, Arthur Sweetman First- and Second-Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada
• Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun Immigration Amnesty and Immigrant's Earnings
• Robert Kaestner, Neeraj Kaushal Welfare Reform and Immigrants: Does the Five-year Ban Matter?
• Charles M. Beach, Alan G. Green, Christopher Worswick Impacts of the Point System and Immigration Policy Levers on Skill Characteristics of Canadian Immigrants

• Volume Details
• Editor Barry R. Chiswick
• Publication date 30 October 2007
• ISBN 978-0-7623-1391-4
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec