This unique book synthesizes and extends the immigrant--trade literature and provides comprehensive coverage of this timely and important topic. In that vein, the author contributes to the understanding of the relationship between immigration and trade and sheds light on a noteworthy aspect of...

Contents: 1. A legacy of discrimination -- Part I A review of U.S. Immigration history -- 2. The colonial era and the northern and western European Wave, 1607-1874 -- 3. The southern and eastern European wave: qualitative restrictions, 1875-1920 -- 4. The national origin quota system:...