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"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.

Describes under what conditions people become refugees, what it is like to live as a refugee, and the changing United States practices of granting asylum or refugee status.

Covers the trial of John "Iwan" Demjanjuk, a Nazi war criminal and postwar immigrant living and working in the United States, discussing why it took nearly sixty years to bring him to justice and revealing how American politicians and the United States military recruited "useful" Nazi war criminals to work as spies and saboteurs during the Cold War.

"The . . . story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler"--Provided by publisher.

"Though sanctuary cities have recently become a significant aspect of the immigration debate as a result of the Trump administration's stricter immigration policies, sanctuary cities have existed in the US since the 1980s and for centuries in countries around the world. However, the precise definition and legal standing of sanctuary cities in today's context is often foggy. The viewpoints in this volume discuss the timely issue of sanctuary cities from a variety of angles while also exploring the economic, cultural, political, and moral aspects of asylum and immigration"--Provided by publisher.

". . . [television journalist Jorge Ramos] . . . examine[s] what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in . . . America [and] us[es] . . . research and statistics . . . [and] his own personal experience [to] show . . . the changing face of America while also trying to find an explanation for why he, and millions of others, still feel like strangers in [the United States]"--Amazon.

"The nation remains divided on the issue of detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants. Most Americans recognize there are no easy solutions to the problem. The majority of migrants today are not Mexicans but families from Central America. Most request asylum at the border, seeking to escape poverty and violence in their own countries. This explosion has raised many issues related to detention and deportation, including family separations at the border, overcrowding and unhealthy conditions at detention centers, and the rise of sanctuary cities. Throughout this crisis, there is a struggle to balance enforcement with protection of immigrant rights"--Provided by publisher.

Postwar Immigrant America examines the changing patterns of immigration to the United States since World War II, providing a synthesis of elements often scattered in interpretive and documentary works.

"A book for teens about coping with the threat of deportation from the United States"--Provided by publisher.

"A mother and father set out with their kids from New York to Arizona. In their used Volvo--and with their ten-year-oldson trying out his new Polaroid camera--the family is heading for the Apacheria: the region the Apaches once called home, and where the ghosts of Geronimo and Cochise might still linger. The father, a sound documentarist, hopes to gather an 'inventory of echoes' from this historic, mythic place. The mother, a radio journalist, becomes consumed by the news she hears on the car radio, about the thousands of children trying to reach America but getting stranded at the southern border, held in detention centers, or being sent back to their homelands, to an unknown fate. But as the family drives farther west--through Virginia to Tennessee, across Oklahoma and Texas--we sense they are on the brink of a crisis of their own"--Provided by publisher.