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For a historical encyclopedia of immigration, a reference work to be published by Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO (contracted), writers are invited to notify the editor of their interest in providing essay-length entries of between 6,000 and 8,000 words, with up-to-date bibliography, on the topics listed below. This is a time-sensitive project, with expected publication in the winter of 2010. Essays have a March deadline for drafts, with final copy due by April. Delivery to the publisher will be in May. An honorarium will be provided to authors. Prospective writers are asked to contact the editor regarding their choice of topic(s), some of which include:
Frances Perkins
9/11
the Minuteman Project
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Emmanuel Celler – Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (abolished quota system in place since 1924)
Elizabeth Holtzman – defeats Celler
the Melting Pot vs. Tapestry debate
Assimilation vs. Absorption
Race/Racial profiling/287g provisions of the Homeland Security Act -
Kerby Miller (expert on Irish immigration to the US)
Bruce Mohler (directed the US bishops' Bureau of Migration Affairs for half a century)
Cecilia Rosovsky (directed a number of Jewish agencies charged with assisting immigrants)
the Rockefeller Foundation
John McCain
"Boat People"
Bi-lingualism
Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL)
Immigration and Nationality Act (1952) – McCarren/Walter Act
Detention of immigrants – T. Don Hutto Prison
Refugees
Asylees
Stowaways
Sanctuary movement (Catholic Workers/Zwicks)
Forced immigration/middle passage
Lobbying groups: Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) (right); Justice for Immigrants (centrist); National Immigration Forum (left)
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (made it illegal to hire or recruit illegal immigrants).
Brain drain
Remittances
Family reunification
Immigration issues on film: Charlie Chaplin’s 1917 film, The Immigrant; Golden Door (aka “Nuovomundo,” 2007); The Visitor (2007); Under the Same Moon (2007); Sentenced Home (2007); Made in LA (2007), etc.
Case law: 708 F. 2nd 869 (dealing with Chinese immigrants and INS powers)
Undocumented (workers, citizens)
Ellis Island
New Nativism: Paul Blanshard v. John Courtney Murray, SJ
Immigration and women
Immigration and art
Immigration and education
Immigration and media
Immigration and religion
Immigration and politics
Immigration and health care
“Yellow peril”/Chinese exclusion act
Etc.
Gratefully,
Patrick J. Hayes, Ph.D.
Redemptorist Fathers Archives
Brooklyn, NY
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