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Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration.(Review)~(book review)
Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History Publication Date: 01-JAN-01 Author: Vernez, Georges
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COPYRIGHT 2001 Transaction Publishers, Inc.
By David M. Reimers. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 218 pp. $27.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper).
This book documents the basic arguments articulated by contemporary advocates of a more restrictive immigration policy in the United States: the concerns about the environment; the belief that the present immigration system is broken; the belief in adverse economic effects of immigration on low-skilled workers and taxpayers; and the fear that immigrants are seriously fragmenting American culture.
The opening chapter reviews the restrictionist's movement of the early part of the century, leaving it to the reader to recognize the similarities...
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