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What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts gover
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Tells the story of the struggles of successive waves of immigrants who came to America and includes the President's plea for a complete revision of our immigrat
Emigrant Nation
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Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. As the young
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-15 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered
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Authors: Maddalena Marinari
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Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the