Reed Ueda

Postwar immigrant America : a social history

Introduction: The Historical Context of Immigration - The Legacy of Restriction, 1882-1965 - The Transformation of Policy, 1945-1990 - The Changing Face of Post-1965 Immigration - The Making of a World Melting Pot, 1900-1990 - The Immigrant and American Democracy, 1900-1990 - Immigration and the National Future - Appendices - Additional Graphs and Tables - Index

The Ebb and Flow of the Foreign-Born: Changing Conditions for Collective Identities

Winders’ Nashville in the New Millennium is a study of the local effects of the new immigration in areas that had historically experienced a paucity of immigrants and international culture. By employing a methodology based on participant observation, personal interviews, and oral histories, Winders demonstrates that a surge of immigrants in a local community can produce a complex challenge to epistemologies of collective identity based on historically entrenched ethnic categories and popular memories. Her research is a fresh addition to a field of scholarship that has produced illuminating interdisciplinary studies about the effects of the changing flows of immigrants on communities, generations, and minority groups.

Introduction: State Development and International Migration

Recent and current research has increasingly approached immigration and ethnic factors from the perspective of historical state development, taking into account regional and global dimensions. The articles in this special issue reflect the innovative conceptual frameworks and empirical methodology utilized in this approach. They indicate how the field of immigration studies is integrating political and historical analysis.

American National Identity and Race in Immigrant Generations: Reconsidering Hansen's "Law"@@@American Immigrants and Their Generations: Studies and Commentaries on the Hansen Thesis after Fifty Years

grandchildren. It is retrospectively examined in this collection of variegated essays, many of which revise Hansens thesis by restoring the unique specifics of historical context to the nomothetic model. This essay explores the problem of the historiographic contextualization of Hansens law. Focusing on the early twentieth century, it examines how historians should consider the formal

The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri

The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary immigrants who have often been ignored in the historical record, he demonstrates that German newcomers arrived with fewer resources than previously supposed but that they were remarkably successful in becoming independent farmers.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.