"This invaluable resource investigates U.S. immigration and policy, making links the ethnic and religious affiliations of immigrants to the United States to trends in immigration, both legal and unauthorized.• Presents data in 15 tables that provide insight into the relationships between ethnic and religious affiliations of immigrants and policy aimed at regulating the flow of immigration to the United States• Offers excerpts from primar ..."
The American Political Party System A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2017 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-5411-8, ISBN: 1-4408-5411-4
"Did President Obama's election serve as the impetus to the development of a seventh political party system? This compelling text sheds light on the American political process as seen through the lens of six pivotal presidencies that shaped America's culture, politics, and society and considers how our current president may be the latest transformative leader in this lineage. Covering two centuries of politics, the work offers insight in ..."
From Open Door to Dutch Door An Analysis of U.S. Immigration Policy Since 1820 by MichaelC. Lemay Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1987 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-275-92628-1, ISBN: 0-275-92628-1
"Most policy books confine their historical discussions to a relatively short time frame. This book offers a long-term historical analysis of American immigration policy. From Open Door to Dutch Door details current policy and its shortcomings. In addition, the book describes the four distinct phases of U.S. immigration policy since 1820, why these shifts occurred, and their impact on decisions being made today. Written in a clear and re ..."
"This volume thoroughly examines the operations and politics of the U.S. Congress. It guides readers to their own assessment of congressional politics and provides them with the basis for future reading and study of the subject.• Presents the major functions of Congress and how they have evolved• Discusses proposed solutions to more than a dozen major problems facing Congress and enables readers to judge for themselves whether or not suc ..."
First Amendment Freedoms A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) (HC) by MichaelC. Lemay, Alemayehu G. Mariam Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-6929-7, ISBN: 1-4408-6929-4
""First Amendment Freedoms: A Reference Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the discourse on first amendment freedom issues in an objective and unbiased manner, and provides valuable data and documents to guide readers to further ..."
The U.S.-Mexico Border A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, Published 2022 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-7479-6, ISBN: 1-4408-7479-4
"This book offers answers to essential questions about the border between the United States and Mexico and connected issues that are accessible to readers interested in immigration, border security, and U.S.-Mexico relations."
Illegal Immigration(2nd Edition) A Reference Handbook, (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2015 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-4012-8, ISBN: 1-4408-4012-1
"A valuable resource for high school, college, and general readers, this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive examination of illegal immigration in America, addressing its complex history, comparing its occurrence today with the past, and explaining why a solution is so difficult to enact. * Discusses in detail all of the proposed solutions to the illegal immigration problem in the United States * Enables the reader, on an objecti ..."
Immigration Reform A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2019 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-5407-1, ISBN: 1-4408-5407-6
"This volume presents a comprehensive, unbiased, and easily accessible review of U.S. immigration reform, and explains why reform efforts have resulted in the current state of political deadlock over the issue in the United States Congress.• Provides readers with a succinct and unbiased examination of the political complexities involved in attempts to reform legal and unauthorized immigration to the United States• Enables readers to unde ..."
Homeland Security A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2018 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-5409-5, ISBN: 1-4408-5409-2
"This book provides a comprehensive summary of the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and efforts to protect the United States from international terrorism.• Provides readers with an objective, nonpartisan perspective on the complexity of enacting and implementing homeland security policy so that readers may better understand how difficult it is to combat terrorism• Illuminates how "lone-wolf" terrorists become radicalized a ..."
Global Pandemic Threats(1st Edition) A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 366 Pages, Published 2016 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-4282-5, ISBN: 1-4408-4282-5
" Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook provides all-encompassing coverage that introduces key concepts and traces the history of pandemics, enabling readers to grasp the complexity of the global problem and the difficulties of executing effective solutions. Written in an easy-to-understand manner, it provides a "go-to" resource that systematically addresses dozens of diseases of the past as well as re-emergent or newly emerging ..."
The Perennial Struggle(3rd Edition) Race, Ethnicity, and Minority Group Relations in the United States, by MichaelC. Lemay, Michael Le May Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2008 by Pearson Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-208021-7, ISBN: 0-13-208021-4
" The Perennial Struggle integrates the richness of insight the various social science perspectives offer to the study of ethnic and racial relations into a consistent viewpoint. The Perennial Struggle is about race, ethnic, and minority group relations and how they interact in group politics in the United States. Understanding these relationships is critical to understanding American society in general and American politics in partic ..."
Guarding the Gates(Updated) Immigration and National Security (Praeger Security International) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 2006 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99294-1, ISBN: 0-275-99294-2
"National security has always been an integral consideration in immigration policy, never more so than in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. This is the first history of American immigration policy written in the post-9/11 environment to focus specifically on the role of national security considerations in determining that policy. As LeMay makes clear, this is not the first time America has worried about letting foreigners through our ..."
Public Administration(2nd Edition) Clashing Values in the Administration of Public Policy (with InfoTrac) (Thomson Advantage Books) by MichaelC. Lemay Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2005 by Wadsworth Publishing International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-534-60137-9, ISBN: 0-534-60137-5
"Develop an understanding of how values connote principles, goals, or standards that an individual, class, organization, or society holds dear with this affordable CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS version of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: CLASHING VALUES IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC POLICY. This textbook uses a "clash of values" approach that gets to the heart of how administrators make decisions and implement public policy. Case studies and examples ..."
U.S. Immigration(Updated) A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 283 Pages, Published 2003 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-85109-543-8, ISBN: 1-85109-543-8
"U.S. Immigration: A Reference Handbook is an authoritative, timely, and balanced review of immigration law in the United States. This title ranges from the "Kennedy" law of 1965 to the recent restructuring of the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a part of the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security.The work offers a clear look at historic and ongoing immigration problems in the United States and the reforms enacted ..."
Doctors at the Borders Immigration and the Rise of Public Health by MichaelC. Lemay Hardcover, 261 Pages, Published 2015 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-1-4408-4024-1, ISBN: 1-4408-4024-5
"The period of 1820 to 1920 was one of mass migration to the United States from other nations of origin. This century-long period served to develop modern medicine with the acceptance of the germ theory of disease and the lessons learned from how immigration officials and doctors of the United States Marine Hospital Service (USMHS) confronted six major pandemic diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, influenza, smallpox, trachoma, and yellow ..."
Illegal Immigration A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues) by MichaelC. Lemay, Michael Le May Hardcover, 341 Pages, Published 2006 by Abc-Clio ISBN-13: 978-1-59884-039-1, ISBN: 1-59884-039-8
"Emotions run high around the problem of illegal immigration. It not only affects jobs, schools, social services, prisons, and taxes, it also raises difficult issues of race, class, vigilantism, and human rights. "Illegal Immigration: A Reference Handbook" confronts these heated controversies head on. It traces the successes and the failures of our attempts to manage illegal immigration, from 1965 to the present. Through examination of p ..."
The Perennial Struggle(2nd Edition) Race, Ethnicity and Minority Group Relations in the United States by MichaelC. Lemay Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2004 by Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-178111-5, ISBN: 0-13-178111-1
" This dynamic book uses a multidisciplinary approach, yet stays consistent in its theme and style. It integrates materials and approaches from several perspectives smoothly and effectively to make the content more comprehensive and interesting. Contributions towards race and ethnic relations are presented from the social sciences: history, economics, social psychology, sociology, anthropology and political science. The insightful volum ..."
Public Administration(1st Edition) (with InfoTrac) by MichaelC. Lemay Paperback, 435 Pages, Published 2001 by Wadsworth Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-534-57663-9, ISBN: 0-534-57663-X
"LeMay's "clash of values" approach gets to the heart of how administrators make decisions and implement public policy-and provides conceptual continuity to this provocative new text. Engaging, disparate case studies and examples grab the reader's imagination, capturing the full essence and intricacies of this unique area of political science. Fully integrated Internet resources keep the material up-to-date, and encourage students to exp ..."
Party and Nation(1st Edition) Immigration and Regime Politics in American History by Scot J. Zentner, MichaelC. Lemay, Zentner/Lemay Hardcover, 346 Pages, Published 2019 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4308-8, ISBN: 1-4985-4308-1
"Party and Nation examines immigration as a means to understand party competition in American history. The rise of Donald Trump reflects an ongoing regime change in the U.S., in which multiculturalism and nationalism have emerged as central aspects of the major parties’ ideological and coalitional bases. This phenomenon of a multiculturalist Democratic Party and a nationalist Republican Party, the authors suggest, is a dramatic departure ..."