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The immigrants who make up one America

From Revista catalana de dret public, Jill E. Family (Widener): Conflicting Signals: Understanding US Immigration Reform through the Evolution of US Immigration Law. Allison Brownell Tirres (DePaul): Who Belongs? Immigrants and the Law in American History. Troy Fuhriman (Kyungpook): Tilting at Windmills: A History of American Immigration Law and Policy. Giovanni Facchini (Tinbergen) and Max Friedrich Steinhardt (HWWI): What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes. Leticia M. Saucedo (UC-Davis): Border-Crossing Stories and Masculinities. From The Social Contract, a special issue on the case for an immigration moratorium. From Pew Research Center, here is a map of US migration flows. An all-out assault on immigration: How did the Arizona legislature become such a hothouse of extreme legislation? A museum for the immigrants who make up one America. A review of The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border by Robert Lee Maril. One Hundred Years of Multitude: In 1911, the U.S. took stock of its immigrants and blanched. While Ellis Island was the immigrant headquarters of the East Coast, Judy Yung points out that San Francisco's Angel Island was the gateway to immigrants in the West Coast in her book Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. Will the GOP embrace immigration reform or continue to ostracize key voters? The Serfs of Arkansas: Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry — only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson. An excerpt from Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico by Deborah Cohen. A review of Citizenship and Immigration by Christian Joppke and The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality by Ayelet Shachar. Invasion of the alien cattle: Why does the United States allow more foreign cattle to immigrate than it does people?