Nations of immigrants : Australia, the United States, and international migration /

Only Australia, Canada, and the US have large-scale immigration for permanent settlement. This book compares Australia and the US and complements Freda Hawkins, Critical Years in Immigration: Canada and Australia Compared (CH, Oct'89). It results from a collaboration of the University of Texas, the Bureau of Immigration Research in Melbourne, and the Australian National University. Seminars for contributors were held in Austin and Melbourne, and this volume was edited by Freeman of Texas and Jupp of ANU. Chapters deal with the history of immigration in the two countries; recent immigration law changes; illegal immigration; the effects of interests, both altruistic and economic, on immigration policy; the generally benign economic consequences of immigration; immigration settlement policies; and multiculturalism. What emerges is how different the patterns of immigration were in the two countries until very recently and how different were their public policies. US policy is more fragmented and less coherent than Australian policy, and this mirrors the contrast between presidential and cabinet government. An excellent bibliography reflects the growth industry in immigration studies. Advanced undergraduate through faculty. A. J. Ward; College of William and Mary