Presents a social history of contemporary immigrants to the United States and describes their personal lives and cultures.

Comprised mostly of memoirs with some fiction, this volume gathers selections from the writings of 85 immigrants from 45 countries that illustrate the changing

"In a green town in the middle of America, a bright 18-year-old Hispanic student named Isaias Ramos sets out on the journey to college. Isaias, who passed a pre

Introduces the controversial topic of immigration as a source of rich diversity or social burden and presents it as a compelling social issue with objective, ba

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the