TY - BOOK AU - Agnieszka Malek AU - Dorota Praszalowicz PY - 2017 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2191-3285 SN - 9783653066968 TI - The United States Immigration Policy and Immigrants’ Responses T2 - Past and Present DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-06696-8 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1050111 N2 - The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration. The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the times when Eastern European immigrants in the USA encountered hostility and marginalization, the efforts to create American Polonia military formations during the WWI, the problem of ethnic mobilization among Ukrainian political migrants in the U.S. as well as how state policies influence the movement of people. All the contributions are extended and revised versions of the papers presented at the 7th Workshop American Ethnicity and Ethnic Community Building. KW - Ethnicity, Migration, Immigration Policy, Ethnic Community, Polish Diaspora, Political Emigration LA - English ER -