From national politics to local newspaper editorials, immigration is a hot button issue today. In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration offers readers a larger picture of immigration. Nacny Foner ambitiously covers much ground in this work "making comparisons across time periods, cities and regions, and nations, and focusing on issues pertaining to race, gender, and transnationalism." (p. 7) Why compare immigration on such a large basis? Foner says "it enables us to see what is unique to a specific situation and what is more general to the migration experience." (p. 3) In a New Land is an engaging read for students of Sociology, Anthropology, American Studies, and History.
(Vairo Library JV6465.F66 2005)