US Citizenship for Dummies5 reviews
Cheri Sicard, Steven D. Heller

For Dummies, 2003

US Citizenship for Dummies

+ really really good
+ Good book but not needed
+ Would have 5 stars if it were not outdated
  
  











  



  
Re-Charting America's Future: Responses to Arguments Against Stabilizing U.S. Population and Limiting ...1 review
Roy Howard Beck

Social Contract Press, 1994

A word from the author

Excuse the self-promotional 5-star rating. I had to fill that field to submit these comments. I found my book sitting here lonely without a comment and thought I would offer a few words to help out anybody browsing through these pages. This is not a page-turner book. Rather, it is a handbook ...
  
  











  



  
Major Problems in American Immigration and Ethnic History (Major Problems in American History)3 reviews
Jon Gjerde

Wadsworth Publishing, 1998

What was needed

+ Good Book but Too Expensive
+ An interesting perspective on being American

This book was required for my history class, no complaints so far, we shall see as the semester goes on.
  
  











  



  
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent25 reviews
Richard Florida

Collins Business, 2005

Building On His Thesis, But With A Warning

In the first portion of this book, Richard Florida recaps and defends the major ideas in his first book, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. He addresses some of his critics and reasserts his thesis, which proposes that the ...
  
  











  



  
Can We All Get Along?: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (Dilemmas in American Politics)1 review
Paula D. Mcclain, Joseph Stewart Jr.

Westview Press, 2005

Good quality, decent delivery

I planned ahead and got the book just about on time. You need to make sure you oder your books altleast a week or week and ahalf before the class starts if you want it for the first day.
  
  











  



  
How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans11 reviews
Terese Loeb Kreuzer, Carol Bennett

St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

If you're moving to Canada, read this book!

+ 4 Star Review
+ Go North!! ...or just learn something...
+ Good entry-level book on moving to Canada
+ Useful, pleasant, and to the point
  
  











  



  
A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard ...2 reviews
Aristide R. Zolberg

Harvard University Press, 2006

a must-read on U.S "wanted but not welcome" policies

+ Everything you wanted to know about immigration to the USA

From colonial times to the present, the compromises that emerged over American immigration policy created a state of limbo for groups who were, as Aristide Zolberg puts it in this wide-ranging and erudite book, "wanted but not welcome." In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Asian immigration ...
  
  











  



  
The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our ...18 reviews
Gary S. Becker, Guity Nashat Becker

McGraw-Hill, 1998

Very readable, very practical

+ Friedman's best student speaks!
+ Easy to read everyday economics
+ Becker's "Economics of Life"
  
  











  



  
Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Illegal Migrants30 reviews
Ted Conover

Vintage, 1987

Read it!

+ Well written, unique "birds eye view"
+ A GOP must-read
+ Unique observations of life as an undocumented worker
+ Coyotes: a borderlands journey by a journalist & now professor
  
  











  



  
Why Don't They Learn English: Separating Fact from Fallacy in the U.S. Language Debate (Language and Literacy ...4 reviews
Lucy Tse

Teachers College Press, 2001

Fuel to fight the English Only people

+ Meaningful!
+ This is a great book.
+ great resource and information
  
  











  



  
The Age of Migration, Third Edition: International Population Movements in the Modern World1 review
Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller

The Guilford Press, 2003

Lots of info, little theory

Castles and Miller are considered the standard citation in social sciences for a historical overview of worldwide migration after WWII. The book covers a lot of material - numbers, policies, brief histories - but offers very little in the way of theoretical explanations for migration. Why are so ...
  
  











  



  
Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror34 reviews
J. D. Hayworth

Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006

Whatever It Takes

+ An Eagle Scout speaks up!
+ Illegal Immigration: Isn't it wonderful?
+ R.I.P. Jamie Shaw, Jr
  
  











  



  
In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security79 reviews
Tom Tancredo

WND Books, 2006

Stop playing the race card

+ Persuasive Arguments For Border Control And Immigration Reform
+ author and Presidential Candidate Tom Tancredo in 2008
+ Amazing book!
+ The issues of the US security and immigration
  
  











  



  
The Case Against Immigration: The Moral, Economic, Social, and Environmental Reasons for Reducing U.S. ...10 reviews
Roy Howard Beck

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

A direct look at immigration.

+ Super backgrounder for the current congressional/presidential immigration "debate."
+ Great Book!!
+ Best Immigration Reform Book Ever
  
  











  



  
State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America246 reviews
Patrick J. Buchanan

Thomas Dunne Books, 2006

Buchanan

+ GREAT TOOL FOR ARGUMENT!!!
+ Is it all over but the Funeral?
+ State of Emergency
+ We had better pay attention
  
  











  



  
"They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration14 reviews
Aviva Chomsky

Beacon Press, 2007

Key to any collection strong in immigrant history

+ Just 20 myths about Immigration?
+ Not a textbook, but just as informative.

"THEY TAKE OUR JOBS!" AND 20 OTHER MYTHS ABOUT IMMIGRATION is key to any collection strong in immigrant history, culture and issues in America, whether it be for a public lending library or a high school or college collection seeking to foster debates and education on the topic. Over twenty of the ...
  
  











  



  
Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders26 reviews
Jim Gilchrist, Jerome R. Corsi

World Ahead Publishing, 2006

This book makes you really fear for our future!

+ THIS WILL FRIGHTEN YOU
+ enough is enough
+ Excellent Overview of Immigration
  
  











  



  
Human Traffic_Sex, Slaves and Immigration7 reviews
Craig McGill

Vision Paperbacks, 2003

An inside look at immigration

+ Stopping sex trafficing
+ Stories about desperate people and the walls that block them

This book was a great read. Very simple in its syntax and a book that anyone who has an interest in the "hot-button" item of immigration should read. Many first-hand accounts fill this relatively small book, and they give it the feel of being inside the human trafficking world. Be careful, this ...
  
  











  



  
Debating Immigration3 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 2007

It's a particularly strong pick for any collection

+ Strong collection of essays
+ Have you ever really looked?

College-level collections and many a high school library will want to consider DEBATING IMMIGRATION: it offers an unusually well-balanced collection of debates on various immigration issue positions which gathers reasonings from Left, Right and Middle about immigration and border issues, and ...
  
  











  



  
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Politics and Society in Twentieth ...4 reviews
Mae M. Ngai

Princeton University Press, 2005

Reframing immigration history

+ The construction of the illegal immigrant and discriminatory US policies
+ The legally constructed "illegal aliens"

Mae Ngai's ambitious book compels historians and general readers alike to critically reassess traditional understandings of and approaches to U.S. immigration. Much of the histories on U.S. immigration and immigration policies have told a similar tale. The United States, the narrative goes, has ...