The Ambivalent Welcome: Print Media, Public Opinion and Immigration

by Rita James Simon and Rita J. Simon

Book Overview

The Ambivalent Welcome describes how leading magazines and the New York Times covered and interpreted U.S. immigration policy, and public attitudes about the impact of immigrants on the American economy and social fabric. Rita J. Simon and Susan H. Alexander examine print media coverage of immigration issues from 1880, the onset of the new immigration, to the present, and find that most magazines, like most Americans, have vehemently opposed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275944921
• ISBN13: 9780275944926
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"