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American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher THE BOOK OF MORMON AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and Terryl Givens Richard Rathbone THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright AMERICAN POLITICAL BUDDHA Michael Carrithers PARTIES AND ELECTIONS BUDDHISM Damien Keown L. Sandy Maisel BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown THE AMERICAN CANCER Nicholas James PRESIDENCY Charles O. Jones CAPITALISM James Fulcher ANARCHISM Colin Ward CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas CHAOS Leonard Smith ANCIENT WARFARE CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham Harry Sidebottom CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS Helen Morales Paul Foster CLASSICS Mary Beard and ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn John Henderson ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard ARISTOCRACY William Doyle THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes ART HISTORY Dana Arnold CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland CONTEMPORARY ART ATHEISM Julian Baggini Julian Stallabrass AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick CONTINENTAL AUTISM Uta Frith PHILOSOPHY Simon Critchley BARTHES Jonathan Culler COSMOLOGY Peter Coles BEAUTY Roger Scruton CRITICAL THEORY BESTSELLERS John Sutherland Stephen Eric Bronner THE BIBLE John Riches THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and Eric H. Cline Sean Murphy BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee DADA AND SURREALISM THE BLUES Elijah Wald David Hopkins DARWIN Jonathan Howard FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Timothy Lim David Canter DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser DESCARTES Tom Sorell FOSSILS Keith Thomson DESERTS Nick Middleton FOUCAULT Gary Gutting DESIGN John Heskett FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton DINOSAURS David Norman FREE WILL Thomas Pink DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons DOCUMENTARY FILM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Patricia Aufderheide William Doyle DREAMING J. Allan Hobson FREUD Anthony Storr DRUGS Leslie Iversen FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe GALAXIES John Gribbin EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly GALILEO Stillman Drake THE EARTH Martin Redfern GAME THEORY Ken Binmore ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch GENIUS Andrew Robinson EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GEOGRAPHY BRITAIN Paul Langford John Matthews and David Herbert THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds EMOTION Dylan Evans GERMAN LITERATURE EMPIRE Stephen Howe Nicholas Boyle ENGELS Terrell Carver GERMAN PHILOSOPHY ENGLISH LITERATURE Andrew Bowie Jonathan Bate GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire EPIDEMIOLOGY Roldolfo Saracci GLOBAL WARMING Mark Maslin ETHICS Simon Blackburn GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger THE EUROPEAN UNION THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE John Pinder and Simon Usherwood NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway EVOLUTION HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson Brian and Deborah Charlesworth HEGEL Peter Singer EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood FASCISM Kevin Passmore HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts FASHION Rebecca Arnold HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson FEMINISM Margaret Walters HINDUISM Kim Knott FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak HISTORY John H. Arnold THE FIRST WORLD WAR THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Michael Howard Michael Hoskin THE HISTORY OF LIFE LAW Raymond Wacks Michael Benton THE LAWS OF THE HISTORY OF THERMODYNAMICS Peter Atkins MEDICINE William Bynum LEADERSHIP Keith Grint THE HISTORY OF TIME LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo Leofranc Holford-Strevens LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler HOBBES Richard Tuck LOCKE John Dunn HUMAN EVOLUTION LOGIC Graham Priest Bernard Wood MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham THE MARQUIS DE SADE HUMANISM Stephen Law John Phillips HUME A. J. Ayer MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden MARX Peter Singer INDIAN PHILOSOPHY MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers Sue Hamilton THE MEANING OF LIFE INFORMATION Luciano Floridi Terry Eagleton INNOVATION Mark Dodgson and MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope David Gann MEDIEVAL BRITAIN INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffi ths INTERNATIONAL MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster MIGRATION Khalid Koser MICHAEL FARADAY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Frank A.J.L. James Paul Wilkinson MODERN ART David Cottington ISLAM Malise Ruthven MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves MODERN JAPAN JUDAISM Norman Solomon Christopher Goto-Jones JUNG Anthony Stevens MODERNISM Christopher Butler KABBALAH Joseph Dan MOLECULES Philip Ball KAFKA Ritchie Robertson MORMONISM KANT Roger Scruton Richard Lyman Bushman KEYNES Robert Skidelsky MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. Brown KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner MUSIC Nicholas Cook THE KORAN Michael Cook MYTH Robert A. Segal LANDSCAPES AND NATIONALISM Steven Grosby GEOMORPHOLOGY Andrew NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer Goudie and Heather Viles NEOLIBERALISM LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy THE NEW TESTAMENT POSTSTRUCTURALISM Luke Timothy Johnson Catherine Belsey THE NEW TESTAMENT AS PREHISTORY Chris Gosden LITERATURE Kyle Keefer PRESOCRATIC NEWTON Robert Iliffe PHILOSOPHY Catherine Osborne NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner PRIVACY Raymond Wacks NINETEENTH-CENTURY PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns H. C. G. Matthew PSYCHOLOGY THE NORMAN CONQUEST Gillian Butler and Freda McManus George Garnett PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green QUANTUM THEORY NORTHERN IRELAND John Polkinghorne Marc Mulholland RACISM Ali Rattansi NOTHING Frank Close THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall NUCLEAR WEAPONS RELATIVITY Russell Stannard Joseph M. Siracusa RELIGION IN AMERICA NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins Timothy Beal THE OLD TESTAMENT THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton Michael D. Coogan RENAISSANCE ART ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch Geraldine A. Johnson PAGANISM Owen Davies RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway PAUL E. P. Sanders THE ROMAN EMPIRE PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay Christopher Kelly PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber PHILOSOPHY OF LAW ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler Raymond Wacks RUSSELL A. C. Grayling PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly Samir Okasha THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards S. A. Smith PLANETS David A. Rothery SCHIZOPHRENIA PLATO Julia Annas Chris Frith and Eve Johnstone POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller SCHOPENHAUER POLITICS Kenneth Minogue Christopher Janaway POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young SCIENCE AND RELIGION POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler Thomas Dixon SCIENCE FICTION David Seed TERRORISM Charles Townshend THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION THEOLOGY David F. Ford Lawrence M. Principle THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr SCOTLAND Rab Houston TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfi eld SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier TRAGEDY Adrian Poole SHAKESPEARE Germaine Greer THE TUDORS John Guy SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL Kenneth O. Morgan ANTHROPOLOGY THE UNITED NATIONS John Monaghan and Peter Just Jussi M. Hanhimäki SOCIALISM Michael Newman THE U.S. CONGRESS SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce Donald A. Ritchie SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell THE VIKINGS Julian Richards THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill Helen Graham WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman SPINOZA Roger Scruton THE WORLD TRADE STATISTICS David J. Hand ORGANIZATION STUART BRITAIN John Morrill Amrita Narlikar SUPERCONDUCTIVITY WRITING AND SCRIPT Stephen Blundell Andrew Robinson Available soon: JESUS Richard Bauckham DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford Lewis Wolpert DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ David A. Gerber American Immigration A Very Short Introduction 1 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2011 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gerber, David A., 1944– American immigration : a very short introduction / David A. Gerber. p. cm.— (Very short introductions) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-19-533178-3 (pbk.) 1. United States—Emigration and immigration. 2. United States—Emigration and immigration—History. 3. Cultural pluralism—United States. I. Title. JV6465.G47 2011 304.8'73—dc22 2010042520 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in Great Britain by Ashford Colour Press Ltd., Gosport, Hants. on acid-free paper For Chris, Valerie, and Jaylyn

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"The United States has experienced voluntary immigration of unprecedented size and diversity throughout its colonial and national history, over the course of almost five centuries. In light of the number of migrants and migrant peoples, it is to be expected that the fundamental character of American
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