To Be an American (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bill Ong Hing
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: Law or legislation, Immigration or emigration, Health, Economic conditions, Employment or employees, Latinos, Asian Americans, Law enforcement, Old age or elderly people
Bill Ong Hing is the author of an excellent history of U.S. immigration policy, Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, 1850-1990 (1993). Asian Americans have traditionally been relegated to the periphery in overviews of immigration history, but, in that book, Hing showed that they belong at the center of the story. Hing, a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and executive director of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in the late 1990’s, has devoted much of his career to immigration law and has represented many immigrants in...
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