Transforming America : perspectives on U.S. immigration / Michael C. LeMay, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. The making of a nation of nations : the founding to 1865. An overview of immigration to the United States: founding to 1865 / Michael C. LeMay -- To ensure domestic tranquility: immigration and national defense, 1820-1865 / Michael C. LeMay -- Mushrooming cities: immigrants and the beginnings of urbanization, 1790-1865 / Michael C. LeMay -- Toward a more perfect union: immigration and federalism / Michael C. LeMay -- The common and uncommon schooling of immigrants to the United States, 1787-1865 / H. James McLaughlin -- Political parties and immigration in the early republic / Scot J. Zenter -- Naturalization law, immigration flow, and policy / Carla L. Reyes -- Colonial borders, new world orders: servants, slaves, and the founding divisions of labor in the nation of immigrants / Mark N. Hoffman -- A holy experiment: religion and immigration to the New World / Sharon Kornelly -- The anti-immigration social movement: racial and religious undercurrents and their political effects / Michael C. LeMay.

v. 2. The transformation of a nation of nations : 1865 to 1945. An overview of immigration to the United States, 1865-1945 / Michael C. LeMay -- Immigration and national defense, 1865-1945 / Michael C. LeMay -- Immigration and the rise of public health / Michael C. LeMay -- Immigration and shipping lines, 1865-1945 / Timothy G. Lynch -- Melting the "unsightly indigestible lumps": the education of Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the United States, 1880-1945 / H. James McLaughlin -- Exploding cities: immigration and the urbanization of America, 1865-1945 / Michael C. LeMay -- Angel Island and the control of immigrant entry at San Fransisco / Robert Eric Barde -- Enacting racism into law: restriction and the Asian exclusion immigration laws / Michael C. LeMay -- The Ellis Island station / Barry Moreno and Michael C. LeMay -- Women immigrants and citizenship, 1865-1945 / Michael C. LeMay.

v. 3. Immigration and superpower status : 1945 to the Present. An overview of immigration to the United States, 1945-2010 / Michael C. LeMay -- Immigration and education from 1945 to the present: a complicated and contentious connection / Edmund J. Sass -- The search for talent / Allan C. Ornstein -- The policy conundrum of illegal immigration: exponential growth, 1970-2010 / Michael C. LeMay -- Post 9/11 immigration policy, national security, and human rights implications for Muslim Americans / Elizabeth Shaffer-Wishner -- Immigration and the U.S. welfare state: why mainstream theories fail to explain patterns of immigration and access to political mobilization / Laura C. Thaut and Carla L. Reyes -- Gender, immigration, and the U.S. labor market / Katharine M. Donato -- Thwarting federal immigration reform: the politics of welfare devolution in the United States / Adriano Udani -- Attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy / Elizabeth Fussell -- Immigrant health and health care provisions in the United States: contemporary paradoxes and challenges / Fernando Riosmena and Warren C. Jochem -- Remigration of immigrants to the United States: who remigrates and why? / Ayumi Takenaka -- Where is immigration policy headed?: policy conflicts then and now / Katherine Fennelly and Donna R. Gabaccia.

These volumes cover immigration to the United States since its founding from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. The work provides tables detailing figures such as the annual immigration to the United States, 1820-1865; the percentage of foreign-born 1870-1950; and the size and growth of the U.S. labor force by sex and nativity from 1900, 2000, and 2008. It explains why America had an open-door policy of immigration and this policy's effect upon domestic tranquility. It also examines how the unique federal system of American politics was influenced by the immigration of millions of persons of diverse national origin, religious, and racial backgrounds. Authors further discuss immigration in relation to urbanization, national defense, public health, education, politics, and religion.--From the publisher's web site.