Thoroughly revised and expanded, this is the definitive reference on American immigration from both historic and contemporary perspectives. It traces the scope and sweep of U.S. immigration from the earliest settlements to the present, providing a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to all aspects of this critically important subject.

1: Causes, Processes, and Patterns; Causes of Immigration; America's Image in the Global Imagination; Chain Migration; Economic Pull Factors; Economic Push Factors; Natural Disasters and Environmental Crises; Political, Ethnic, Religious, and Gender-Related Persecution; Wars and Civil Unrest; Processes; Adoption; Human Smuggling and the Business of Illegal Immigration; Immigrant Aid Societies and Organizations; Marriage and Spousal Immigration; Sponsorship; Demographics and Settlement; Census, U.S.; Demographic and Statistical Trends; Settlement Patterns; Return Migration; 2: History; Prehistory Through First Wave (to 1800); Native Americans; Early Spanish Settlers; Puritans and Other Religious Groups; Indentured Servants; Free Immigration; Slave Trade; Immigrants and the American Revolution; Second Wave (1800-1880s); Early Nineteenth-Century Immigration; Internal Migration to 1865; The Great Irish Immigration; German-Speaking Political Refugees and Economic Migrants; Nativism and KnowNothings; Chinese and the Chinese Exclusion Act; Immigrants and the Civil War; Immigrants in the American West; Third Wave (1880s-1920); The New Immigration; Immigration Stations; Living Conditions: The Urban Experience; Industrial Labor; Culture and Assimilation: Hybrid Identities; Era of Quotas and Restrictions (1920-1965); Nativist Reaction; Immigrants and the First Red Scare; Immigrants and Espionage; Restrictive Legislation and Quotas; War Refugees; Internment of Japanese and Others During World War II; Latino Immigration; Fourth Wave (1965-2001); Statistical Overview, 1965-2000; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965; Southeast Asian Refugee Crisis, 1975-1980; Immigrants from the Developing World: Coming to America, 1965-1990s; Immigrants from the Developing World: Life in America, 1965-1990s; Collapse of Communism and Its Effects, 1980s-1990s; Immigration Reform, 1980s-1990s; Immigration Agencies and Enforcement: The INS and Its Predecessors; Immigrant-Minority Relations, 1965-2001; Anti-Immigrant Backlash, 1965-2001; The Post-9/11 Era (2001-Present); Statistical Overview, Since 2000; Immigration Law and Enforcement, Impact of 9/11; Illegal Immigrants and Amnesty Policy, Impact of 9/11; Immigration Agencies and Government Organizations, Post-9/11; Controlling the U.S.-Mexican Border; Immigration Legislation, Post-9/11; Anti-Muslim Xenophobia; Anti-Illegal Immigration Policies and Politics at the State and Local Levels, Post-9/11; 3: Society, Culture, and Politics; Assimilation and Acculturation; Children and Adolescents; Connections to Homeland; Elderly; Ethnic Intermarriage; Family; Gender; Segmented Assimilation; Culture, Language, and Media; Art and Architecture; English as a Second Language; Film and Broadcast Media; Food; Genealogy: Searching for Roots; Internet; Language; Literature in English; Media Portrayal; Music; Popular Culture; Press; Sports; Theater; Economics and Labor; Agriculture; Economic Benefits and Costs of Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Home-Country Economy, Impact on; Housing; Income and Wealth; Labor Markets; Poverty; Professionals and the Brain Drain; Service Sector; Sweatshops and Factories; Underground Economy; Unions and Union Organizing; Health, Education, and Welfare; Bilingual Education; Health Care; Higher Education and Science; Immigrants and Health; Mental Health; Public Schools; Social Services; Welfare and Public Benefits; Law and Politics; Admission Laws: Pre-Restriction Era, 1800s-1910s; Admission Laws: Restriction Era, 1920s-Present; Amnesty; Anti-Immigrant Politics; Civil Rights of Immigrants; Crime, Immigrant; Illegal Immigrant Identification; Immigrant Politics: Activism; Immigrant Politics: Electoral Politics; Immigrant Politics: The Home Country; Immigrant Status, Rights, and Privileges; Local Governments and Immigration; Public Opinion and Immigration; State Governments and Immigration; Religion: Groups and Practice; Buddhism; Catholicism; Eastern Rite Christianity; Evangelical Christianity; Hinduism and Sikhism; Islam; Judaism; Protestantism, Mainline; 4: Nations of Origin and U.S. Destinations; Nations of Origin and Immigration Groups; Africa, East; Africa, Southern; Africa, West; African Americans; Andean Countries; Armenia; Asia, South and Central; Asia, Southeast; Brazil and the Southern Cone; Canada; Caribbean, English-Speaking; Caribbean, French-Speaking; Central America; China; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Europe, Eastern and Central; Europe, Northern and Western; Germany; Great Britain; Greece; Iran; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Jews; Korea; Mexico; Middle East and North Africa; Oceania; Philippines; Poland; Puerto Rico; Taiwan and Hong Kong; U.S. Destinations; Chicago; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New Orleans; New York City; Rural America; San Francisco; Suburban America; Washington, D.C.; 5: International Perspectives; International Perspectives; American Emigration Abroad; Global Economy and Immigration; International Law and Immigration; International Politics and Immigration; Human Trafficking and Slavery; Documents; Documents; Revolutionary War Correspondence of George Washington (1775-1778); Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1782); Article I, Sections 8 and 9, the U.S. Constitution (1787); An Act to Establish an Uniform Rule of Naturalization (1790); Look Before You Leap, Anonymous (1796); Alien Act (1798); History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, George Flower (1817-1818); Plea for Change of Venue by James Brown, Petitioner in Case to Retrieve Runaway Indentured Servants (1819); Manifest of Immigrants Act (1819); Selections from Letters Written During a Tour through the United States, in the Autumn of 1819, Emanuel Howitt (1819); Imminent Dangers, Samuel Morse (1835); Stimulating Emigration from Ireland, Court Deposition by Michael Gaugan (1837); Four Years of Irish History, 1845-1849, Charles Gavan Duffy (1883); Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848); The United States of North America, with Particular Consideration Paid to German Emigration There, Gottfried Menzel (1853); Emigration, Emigrants, and Know-Nothings, Anonymous (1854); Irish Response to Nativism, Editorial, New York Citizen (1854); U.S. Senate Report on the Demand for Immigrant Labor (1864); Report of the Minnesota Board of Immigration (1871); Economic Value of an Immigrant, Special Report of the U.S. Congress (1871); Page Act (1875); Angell Treaty (1881); Report on German Emigration, Interview with a Government Official of Würtemburg (1881); Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); Alien Contract Labor Law (Foran Act) (1885); Scott Act (1888); Act Banning Naturalization of Anarchists (1903); Gentlemen's Agreement (1907); White-Slave Traffic Act (Mann Act) (1910); Immigration Act (1917); Jones-Shafroth Act (1917); The Immigrant and the Community, Grace Abbott (1917); Quota Act (1921); United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923); Quota Act (1924); Indian Citizenship Act (1924); Executive Order 9066, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1942); Hirabayashi v. United States (1943); Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Acts (1943); Directive on European Refugees, President Harry S. Truman (1945); Agricultural Act of 1949; Immigration and Nationality Act (McCarran-Walter Act) (1952); Whom We Shall Welcome, Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization (1953); Immigration and Nationality Act (1965); Lau v. Nichols (1974); California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (1975); Refugee Act of 1980; White House Statements on Marielito Refugees from Cuba (1980); Plyler v. Doe (1982); U.S.-Cuba Agreement on Marielito Refugees (1984); California Proposition 63 (1986); Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986); Statement on Signing Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, President Ronald Reagan; Debate on Reparations for Japanese American Internees, U.S. Senate (1988); Immigration Act of 1990; New York State Report on Multicultural Textbooks (1991); Executive Order and Press Release on U.S. Repatriation of Haitian Refugees, President George H.W. Bush (1992); District Court Ruling on Admission of Haitian Refugees (1993); Report Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1994); Report to Congress, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform (1994); California Proposition 187 (1994); Revised Guidelines on Asylum for Women, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1995); Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Summary (1996); Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, Summary (1996); Amerasian Children Act (1997); America's New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers, U.S. Department of Commerce (1997); California Proposition 227 (1998); Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis Among Foreign-Born Persons, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1998); Renunciation of U.S. Citizenship, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1998); Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) (2004); Secure Fence Act (2006); Illegal Immigration Relief Act Ordinance, City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania (2006); Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives on a Federal Immigration Raid in Postville, Iowa (2008); Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SB 1070) of Arizona (2010); Arizona et al. v. united States (2012); Implementation Guidelines for President Barack Obama's DREAM Act Executive Order (2012); Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, U.S. Senate (2013); Immigration Planks of Democratic Party Platforms, 1856-2012; Immigration Planks of Republican Party Platforms, 1860-2012