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"The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation. Drawn from stories spanning the colonial period to the present, Bon Tempo and Diner detail the experiences of people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They explore the many themes of American immigration scholarship, including the contexts and motivations for migration, settlement patterns, work, family, racism, and nativism, against the background of immigration law and policy. Taking a global approach that considers economic and personal factors in both the sending and receiving societies, the authors pay close attention to how immigration has been shaped by the state response to its promises and challenges"--Dust jacket.

A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the present "A masterly historical synthesis, full of wonderful detail and beautifully written, that brings fresh insights to the story of how immigrants were drawn to and settled in America over the centuries."—Nancy Foner, author of One Quarter of the Nation The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation. Drawn from stories spanning the colonial period to the present, Bon Tempo and Diner detail the experiences of people from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. They explore the many themes of American immigration scholarship, including the contexts and motivations for migration, settlement patterns, work, family, racism, and nativism, against the background of immigration law and policy. Taking a global approach that considers economic and personal factors in both the sending and receiving societies, the authors pay close attention to how immigration has been shaped by the state response to its promises and challenges

Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Whose America? -- 1 Eliminating Immigrants in the Era of Mass Incarceration -- 2 Families Belong Together: Immigration Policy as Legal Violence -- 3 Give Me Your Best and Brightest: Chasing STEM Workers since World War II -- 4 Legislating Diversity in the Immigration Act of 1990 -- 5 In the Name of National Security: Ideological Exclusion from the Cold War to the War on Terror -- 6 "Uncle Sam Wants You Dead or Deported": How Fears of Sexuality, Gender, and Race Crafted U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 -- 7 "Human Rights for All": The Recent History of Immigration and Human Rights in the United States -- 8 Sanctuary Is Justice: Resilience and Ingenuity in the Sanctuary Movement since 1986 -- 9 Misreading History: The Supreme Court and the Thwarting of the U.S. Asylum System since the 1980s -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

From its inception, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) provoked controversy. Today it is widely regarded as having contributed to the end of the Cold War. Bringing together new and innovative research on the CSCE, this volume explores questions key to understanding the Cold War: What role did diplomats play in shaping the 1975 Helsinki Final Act? How did that agreement and the CSCE more broadly shape societies in Europe and North America? And how did the CSCE and activists inspired by the Helsinki Final Act influence the end of the Cold War?