Fifty Years of U.S. Immigration: The Policy Context for Resettlement Work


 

Publication Date: September 1998

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Gary Rubin

Research Area: Population and demographics

Keywords: Refugees; Tolerance; Political Behavior

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

For the past fifty years, American public policy has reflected profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward immigration. At the beginning and end of this period. Congress passed strongly anti-immigrant legislation, with more generous laws enacted in between. The future of immigration policy will be determined by how this ambivalence works out.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.75 no.1, Fall 1998.