U.S. Immigration Policy Ethnicity and Religion in American History

This invaluable resource investigates U.S. immigration and policy making links the ethnic and religious affiliations of immigrants to the United States to trends in immigration both legal and unauthorized.U.S. Immigration Policy Ethnicity and Religion in American History is rich with data and document excerpts that illuminate the complex relationships among ethnicity religion and immigration to the United States over a 200-year period. The book uniquely organizes the flow of immigration to the United States into seven chapters covering U.S. immigration policy making; the Open Door Era 1820–1880; the Door Ajar Era 1880–1920; the Pet Door Era 1920–1950; the Dutch Door Era 1950–1985; the Revolving Door Era 1985–2001; and the Storm Door Era 2001–2018. Each chapter analyzes trends in ethnicity or national origin and the religious affiliations of immigrant groups in relation to immigration policy during the time period covered.Presents data in 15 tables that provide insight into the relationships between ethnic and religious affiliations of immigrants and policy aimed at regulating the flow of immigration to the United StatesOffers excerpts from primary source documents in nine boxes that cover immigration policy from 1819–2015Provides a chronology of key immigration policymaking events from 1820–2018Follows the immigrants who entered the US through Ellis Island from 1892–1914Details the distribution by percent and decade of the national origin of immigrants from 1920–1950Expands on FBI religion-based hate crimes statistics for 2015