Immigration policy and the shaping of US culture : becoming America

Contents: 1. A legacy of discrimination -- Part I A review of U.S. Immigration history -- 2. The colonial era and the northern and western European Wave, 1607-1874 -- 3. The southern and eastern European wave: qualitative restrictions, 1875-1920 -- 4. The national origin quota system: quantitative restrictions, 1921-1967 -- 5. A pivot in U.S. Immigration Policy, 1968-Present -- Part II The determinants of U.S. immigration, effects of policy changes, and consequences for cultural differences -- 6. Identifying the determinants of U.S. Immigration -- 7. The effects of policy changes on immigration to the United States -- 8. The influence of immigration policy on cross-societal cultural distances -- Part III Implications for American culture and opportunities for policy -- 9. Looking forward: anticipated cultural evolution and corresponding implications, 2015-2065 -- 10. How immigration policy has shaped American culture and opportunities for U.S. public policy in the Twenty-first Century -- References -- Index.