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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.

Explores the issues surrounding the human migration by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format.

Immigration has become a near-constant topic of conversation in today's political climate. Due to confusion about what constitutes legal and illegal immigration as well as political rhetoric on both sides of the aisle, many people find current immigration debates confusing and overwhelming. This volume aims to bring clarity to the issue with fact-based analysis to help tomorrow's voters formulate their own opinions on the issue.

Provides information about illegal immigration in the U.S., discussing the nature and history of unauthorized immigration, examining problems and controversies raised by illegal immigration and looking at proposed solutions, offering a worldwide perspective on the issue, and including profiles of influential people involved in illegal immigration matters, a chronology, graphs and tables, a directory of related organizations, and resources.

"Threatened by gangs and everyday violence, Benito's family flees El Salvador to an uncertain but safer life in Mexico. They are later joined by Auntie Lara, who lost a son to gang violence and joined a migrant caravan heading to the United States. The story is interwoven with details on how violence in countries whose governments no longer function make a safe life impossible, continuing the cycle of refugees heading to Central and North America"--Provided by publisher.

"Address . . . issues surrounding . . . [the future of space exploration], such as the merits of privatizing space exploration, seeking extraterrestrial life-forms, the economics and politics of space exploration, and the possibility of militarizing space"--Amazon.

"An argument for why the United States and the West should accept more immigrants, and would benefit from doing so"--Provided by publisher.

An overvies of the functions, structures, and controversies encountered by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforement agency.