Immigration in America today : an encyclopedia / edited by James Loucky, Jeanne Armstrong, and Larry J. Estrada.

"The American mosaic"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.

LIST OF ENTRIES: Achievement -- Adoption -- Agencies -- Agricultural workers -- Assimilation -- Asylum -- Bilingual education -- Bilingualism -- Biological responses -- Border control -- Borderlands -- Children -- Citizenship -- Crime -- Demography -- Diasporas -- Documentation -- Domestic work -- Dual citizenship -- Effects of unauthorized immigration -- Emigration -- Employee sanctions -- Enslavement -- Ethnicity -- Expedited entry and removal -- Families -- Family reunification -- Fertility -- Food -- Food processing -- Gangs -- Gender -- Global origins: Asia, Africa, and Europe -- Global origins: Latin America and the Caribbean -- Growth and development -- Guestworkers -- Health -- Human smuggling -- Immigrant education -- Immigration system -- Informal economy -- Interethnic relations -- International accords -- Jus soli -- Labor organization and activism -- Legalization -- Legislation -- Literature and film -- Marriage -- Mental health problems -- Mexico-U.S. migration -- Migrant education -- Migration processes -- Music -- National security -- Older persons -- Political participation -- Ports of entry -- Posttraumatic stress disorder -- Public charge -- Racism -- Refugee law and police -- Religion -- Remittances -- Residential patterns -- Return migration -- Rights -- Sexual orientation -- Skilled migration -- Social benefits -- Social mobility -- Social networks -- Stereotypes -- Sweatshops -- Temporary protected status -- Transnationalism -- Unauthorized immigration -- U.S.-Canada border -- U.S, -Mexican border -- Women -- Work.

Contains over eighty alphabetically arranged entries that examine topics related to immigration in America, covering migration concepts and processes, policy, legislation, and social and cultural issues.