An examination of why the Chinese left their country to come to the United States, their role in their new country, and the effects of U.S. immigration policies on them.

Presents the history of Italian immigration to the U.S. beginning with the early explorations during the fifteenth century, the mass influx of native Italians at the turn of the twentieth century, their assimilation into American society, and anti-Italian sentiment.

Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything...

Discusses the history of Indian immigration to America, the social, political, and economic conditions they faced, religious issues, and the contributions they have made to America society.

Seventy years of the transformation of Lillian Dunkle and her extraordinary life as an immigrant, orphan, entrepreneur and the persona she crafts for herself as the face of the very successful Dunkle's Famous Ice Cream. Setenta años de la transformación de Lillian Dunkle y su extraordinaria vida como inmigrante, huérfano, empresario y el personaje que ella hace por sí misma como la cara de la muy acertada Dunkle helado famoso.

"A sweeping history of the legislative battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for the immigration debates roiling America today. The idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants is today so pervasive, and seems so foundational, that it can be hard to believe Americans ever thought otherwise. But a 1924 law passed by Congress instituted a system of ethnic quotas so stringent that it choked off large-scale immigration for...

" Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee; retreating with...