Balderrama, F. E. (2006). Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. University of New Mexico Press.
The book looks at the plight of the mexican immigrants in the 1930’s. It focuses on the injustices dealt towards the mexicans in this period, who were on the receiving end of discrimination from the americans, who sought after a scapegoat in the face of the great depression. The illegal shipping of many american-born mexicans back to Mexico and their struggle to come back to America is detailed.
Cohn, D. (2015, September 30). How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history. Retrieved from Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/09/30/how-u-s-immigration-laws-and-rules-have-changed-through-history/
The article looks at how United States laws have changed in the face of rising immigration. The american government has sought to regulate immigration into the country ever since they gained independence from Britain. Initially, immigration laws were more favourable to the europeans, but over time they were changed to accommodate all regions and people, which is all detailed in the article.
Gerstle, G. (2017). American Crucible. Princeton University Press.
The book looks into the general opinion that america is a melting pot of various cultures. It questions the truth of this statement by questioning whether american citizenship is trulyavailable for all or is a right reserved for people of a certain race or ethnic background.
History.comEditors. (2019, May 16). U.S. Immigration Before 1965. Retrieved from History: https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/u-s-immigration-before-1965
The article looks at the timing and reasons behind the immigration of various groups into America. Immigration in the colonial era, which was significant, in pirsuit of religious freedom and economic prosperity is looked at as well as immigration of groups in the mid-19th century.
Molina, N. (2014). How Race Is Made in America. University of California Press.
The book looks at the Mexican americans especially in the period when the laws were changed to reduce immigration of the same group to the country, and the effect they had on the changing views on certain racial themes in society.
Ngai, M. M. (2014). Impossible Subjects. Princeton University Press.
The book looks at how the enforcement of laws barring the immigration of certain groups into the country was the major player in some of the current problems in the immigration sector, and how they forstered ideas of racial difference in the country.
- A., & L. B. (2018, February 1). Immigration in American Economic History. Retrieved from NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5794227/
The article explores the longtsnding view that despite laws encouraging immigration into the United States, most immigrants fail to intergrate into the society as a whole. It looks at the process of assimilation of various immigrants on coming into the country.
Zolberg, A. R. (2008). A Nation by Design. Harvard University Press.
The book looks at the history of immigration from the colonial period and the national and personal motives that pushed the implementation of the laws that made it possible. It looks at the various factors; political, business interests that drove the american immigration.