Modern immigration is a highly regulated procedure governing the mobility of peoples between sovereign jurisdictions. This procedure has been progressively refined since the late eighteenth century through mechanisms of government that have frequently de
The Immigration Problem (Legal and Illegal): A History Lesson NeededMany columnists and existing and want-to-be legislators constantly remind us of the problems we...Thompson, Alvin HCaddo Gap PressNotes & Abstracts in American & International Education...
Italy, which has a much weaker tradition of immigration , has witnessed a sharp increase in immigration in recent years 。 In 1990 , immigrants numbered some 1。14 million out of Italy’s then 56。7 million people, or about 2 percent. At the start of this year, foreigners living ...
This essay works to connect the history of local enforcement of immigration law and policy against Mexican migrants and Mexican American citizens and its relationship to the creation and perpetuation of what Michelle Alexander has described as a redesigned caste system in the United States. As state...
Some 13 million people moved across borders to become permanent residents of Western Europe from the 1960"s through the 1980"s, and more than 10 million permanent immigrants were admitted Legally to the United States in that same period, with illegal immigration adding several millions more.Slave...
TEGUCIGALPA, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- In the city of La Lima in Honduras, there is a reception facility for repatriated immigrants. Almost every day, this place receives over a hundred deported Hondurans from the United States. Escalating illegal immigration has become one of the focal topics in ...
As Peter Kvidera has pointed out Chinese immigrants were “more directly affected by legal restrictions than any other in the history of U.S. immigration.” Collectively, the laws aimed to make life in America so restrictive, so expensive, as to drive the Chinese population in America out of...
Immigration, process through which individuals become permanent residents or citizens of another country. Many modern states are characterized by a wide variety of cultures and ethnicities that have derived from previous periods of immigration. Learn mor
Spain, country located in extreme southwestern Europe. It occupies about 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with its smaller neighbor Portugal. Spain is a storied country of stone castles, snowcapped mountains, vast monuments, and sophi
Ellis Island Museum of Immigration Ellis Island Timeline Trivia Sources Ellis Island is a historical site that opened in 1892 as an immigration station, a purpose it served for more than 60 years until it closed in 1954. Located at the mouth of Hudson River between New York and New Jersey,...