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Immigration and Migration

Aguila, Jaime R., “Mexican/U.S. Immigration Policy prior to the Great Depression,” Diplomatic History, 31 (April 2007), 207–25.

Alonso Fernández, Bieito, “Migración y sindicalismo. Marineros y anarquistas españoles en Nueva York” (Migration and sindicalism. Spanish sailors and anarchists in New York), Historia Social (Valencia) (no. 54, 2006), 113–35. In Spanish.

Alroey, Gur, “Galveston and Palestine: Immigration and Ideology in the Early Twentieth Century,” American Jewish Archives Journal, 56 (no.1– 2 2004), 128–50.

Coleman, Mathew, “Immigration Geopolitics beyond the Mexico–U.S. Border,” Antipode, 39 (Feb. 2007), 54–76.

Cortina, Jerónimo, “La unitalla no les queda a todos: la opinión pública con respecto a la inmigración” (One size does not fit all: Public opinion with respect to immigration), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 9–21. In Spanish.

Friedman, Max Paul, “Beyond ‘Voting with Their Feet’: Toward a Conceptual History of ‘America’ in European Migrant Sending Communities, 1860s to 1914,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Spring 2007), 557–75.

Gabaccia, Donna R., “Inventing ‘Little Italy,’” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 6 (Jan. 2007), 7–41.

García, Rogelio, “La fe en la raya: el papel de las organizaciones civiles y la religión en la lucha por los derechos de los inmigrantes en Estados Unidos; pasado, presente y futuro” (A ray of hope: The papers of the civil and religious organizations in the fight for the rights of immigrants in the United States; past, present, future), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 34–47. In Spanish.

García-Acevedo, María Rosa, “En los resquicios del sistema: acciones y retos de los grupos de interés latinos en Estados Unidos” (Through the cracks of the system: Actions and challenges of Latino interest groups in the United States), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 22–33. In Spanish.

Garza, James A., “The Long History of Mexican Immigration to the Rural Midwest,” Journal of the West, 45 (Fall 2006), 57–64.

Gromada, Thaddeus V., “Haiman and Halecki in Light of the Polish Institue of Arts & Sciences of America Archives,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Autumn 2006), 79–92.

Kahn, Ava F., and Ellen Eisenberg, “Western Reality: Jewish Diversity during the ‘German’ Period,” American Jewish History, 92 (Dec. 2004), 455–479.

Lucero, Brian Luna, “Old Towns Challenged by the Boom Town: The Villages of the Middle Rio Grande Valley and the Albuquerque Tricentennial,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Winter 2007), 37–69.

Luconi, Stefano, “Italian Americans and the Invasion of Sicily in World War II,” Italian Americana, 25 (2007), 5–22.

Murphy, Angela F., “Daniel O’Connell and the ‘American Eagle’ in 1845: Slavery, Diplomacy, Nativism, and the Collapse of America’s First Irish Nationalist Movement,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 26 (Winter 2007), 3–26.

Radzilowski, John, “Wojciechowo: Polish Immigrants in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1875 to 1925,” Polish American Studies, 63 (Autumn 2006), 23–57.

Rose, Susan, “From Migrant Work to Community Transformation: Families Forming Transnational Communities in Peribán and Pennsylvania,” Oral History Review, 34 (Winter–Spring 2007), 95–142.

Sanfilipo, Matteo, “Il Vaticano e l’emigrazione nelle Americhe” (The Vatican and emigration to the Americas), in Per le strade del mondo. Laiche e religiose fra Otto e Novecento (On the roads of the world. Lay and religious life in the eighteenth and nineteenth century), ed. Stefania Bartoloni, 339–63. (Bologna: Mulino, 2007. 456 pp. €33.00, isbn 978-88-15-11431-0.) In Italian.

Schlemper, M. B., “From the Rhenish Prussian Eifel to the Wisconsin Holyland: Immigration, Identity, and Acculturation at the Regional Scale,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (April 2007), 377–402.

Van Hook, Jennifer V. W., Susan K. Brown, and Frank D. Bean, “For Love or Money? Welfare Reform and Immigrant Naturalization,” Social Forces, 85 (Dec. 2006), 643–66.

Velasco, Jesús, “En defensa de la patria: derecha radical y conservadores contrarios a la inmigración” (In defense of the nation: The radical right and conservative opponents of immigration), istor: Revista de Historia Internacional (Mexico City), 7 (Summer 2007), 50–82. In Spanish.

Waldinger, Roger, “The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners into Americans in Twenty-First Century L.A.,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 30 (May 2007), 341–74.

 

Moscaliuc, Mihaela Diana, “Translating Eastern European Identities into the American National Narrative” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222323.

Taylor, Melissa Jane, “‘Experts in misery?’ American Consuls in Austria, Jewish Refugees, and Restrictionist Immigration Policy, 1938–1941” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224480.

 

Ahmad, Diana L., The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. xvi, 132 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-698-8.)

Foley, Michael W., and Dean R. Hoge, Religion and the New Immigrants: How Faith Communities Form Our Newest Citizens. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 265 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-19-518870-7.)

Verhagen, Frans, The American way: wat Nederland kan leren van het meest succesvolle immigratieland (The American way: What the Netherlands can learn from the world’s most successful immigration country). (Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2006. 280 pp. €18.50, isbn 978-90-468-0101-7.) In Dutch.

 

Farrell, James T., A World I Never Made. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. lx, 374 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03173-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07423-3.) Originally published in 1936.

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