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Few issues have provoked as much controversy over the last decade as illegal immigration. While some argue for the need to seal America's borders and withdraw all forms of social and governmental support for illegal migrants and their children, others argue for humanitarian treatment--including legalization--for people who fill widely acknowledged needs in American industry and agriculture and have left home-country situations of economic hardship or political persecution. The study of illegal immigration necessarily confronts a broad range of migrants--from the familiar border crossers to those who enter illegally and overstay their visas, to the many unrecognized refugees who enter the country to seek protection under U.S. asylum law. The subject also demands attention to American society's responses to these newcomers--responses that often focus on limited elements of a complex issue.

A comprehensive, up-to-date review of this volatile subject, this book provides an accessible, balanced introduction to the subject. Covering the full range of illegal immigrants from Mexican border crossers to Central American refugees, illegal Europeans, and smuggled Chinese, the book considers the kind of work the migrants do and the public response to them. The work is divided into four parts: Concepts, Policies, and Numbers; The Migrants and Their Work; The Responses; and Illegal Immigration in Perspective.

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• Preface
• Concepts, Policies, and Numbers
• Illegal Immigration: Problematic Labels, Volatile Issues
• Labor Migration, Family Integration,and the New America
• Undocumented Immigration to the United States: Numbers, Trends, and Characteristics
• Policy on Illegal Immigration: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
• The Migrants and Their Work Unauthorized Workers in U.S. Agricultural Work: Old Versus New Migrations
• Social and Cultural Bases for Undocumented Immigration into the U.S. Poultry Industry
• Undocumented Immigrants and the Meatpacking Industry in the Midwest
• Undocumented Latino Immigrant Workers: The Los Angeles Experience
• Salvadorans and Nicaraguans: Refugees Become Workers
• Illegal Europeans: Transients Between Two Societies
• Migration from the Caribbean: Economic and Political Factors versus Legal and Illegal Status
• Smuggled Chinese in the Mountain of Gold
• The Responses Refugees at Risk: The Sanctuary Movement and Its Aftermath
• Labor at Risk: The Exploitation and Protection of Undocumented Workers
• Rights at Risk: California's Proposition 187
• Maintaining and Reunifying Families: Two Case Studies of Shifting Legal Status
• Border Crossings, Border Control: Illegalized Migrants from the Other Side
• Illegal Immigration in Perspective Vanishing Acts: Illegal Immigration in Canada as a Sometime Social Issue
• Illegal Migration in Europe: Balancing National and European Union Issues
• Illegal Migration in Asia: Regional Patterns and a Case Study of Nepalese Workers in Japan
• An Introduction to the Literature
• Appendix:
• Summary of Recent Immigration Legislation
• Index

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David W. Haines is associate professor of anthropology at George Mason University. His earlier books include Refugees as Immigrants: Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese in America (1989) and Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook (Greenwood, 1996). He is a past Chair of the American Anthropological Association's Committee on Refugees and Immigrants. His other academic work focuses on Vietnamese social history, American culture and society, and refugee and immigration policy.

Karen E. Rosenblum is currently Vice-President for University Life at George Mason University. Her PhD is in sociology, and her other publications include The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race, Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation (1996, 2nd ed. forthcoming 1999). Her publications focus on gender, language, and the social construction of minority groups.