Immigrants Joining the Mainstream. eJournal USA, Volume 13, No. 2, March 2008

摘要

Over the course of this country's history, Americans have welcomed waves of immigrants, but often, as Hasia Diner points out in our lead essay, with a certain ambivalence toward the new arrivals. Even today immigration policy remains an issue on the mind of many Americans. In particular, the question of how to deal with illegal immigrants is the subject of much debate in the U.S. political campaign leading up to the 2008 elections. But this edition of eJournal USA is not about illegal immigrants: Our topic is how legal immigrants to the United States have assumed the identity of Americans, how generations of newcomers entered the mainstream.