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The Face of the Nation (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

In the preface to the second edition of their excellent book Immigrant America: A Portrait (1996), Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut speak of “the sharply politicized and increasingly acrimonious public debate on immigration in the 1990s.” Noting that “the twenty million foreign-born persons counted by the 1990 U.S. Census formed the largest immigrant population in the world, and admissions during the 1990s appear certain to eclipse the record set in the first decade of this century,” they register at the same time higher levels of “public alarm and nativist...

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