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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 10/03
Immigration in the United States
Philip L. Martin
April 30, 2002
University of California, Berkeley
Center for German and European Studies
Abstract
This chapter summarizes migration patterns, puts the immigration and integration challenges facing the US in a global context, reviews the evolution of US immigration and immigration policy, and then focuses on some of the immigration and integration issues being debated early in the 21st century. Immigration is likely to continue at current levels of 900,000 legal and 300,000 unauthorized a year, so that Americans will, in the words of former Census director Kenneth Prewitt, "redefine ourselves as the first country in world history which is literally made up of every part of the world." (quoted in Alvarez, 2001)
