{"product_id":"integration-nation-9781620970959","title":"Integration Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Eaton has done invaluable work in documenting the revitalization of communities across the U.S. by immigrants and refugees” (David Bacon, author of \u003ci\u003eIllegal People\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In recent years, politicians in a handful of local communities and states have passed laws and regulations designed to make it easier to deport unauthorized immigrants or to make their lives so unpleasant that they’d just leave. The media’s unrelenting focus on these ultimately self-defeating measures created the false impression that these politicians speak for most of America. They don’t.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntegration Nation\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America’s xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah, we meet educators who connect newly arrived Spanish-speaking students and US-born English-speaking students, who share classrooms and learn in two languages. In North Carolina, we visit the nation’s fastest-growing community-development credit union, serving immigrants and US-born depositors and helping to lower borrowing thresholds and crime rates alike.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Giving a voice to people who choose integration over exclusion, who opt for open-heartedness instead of fear, \u003ci\u003eIntegration Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a desperately needed road map for a nation still finding its way beyond anti-immigrant hysteria to higher ground.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “This useful book provides models for civic organizations that want to tackle immigration challenges, and it paints a vivid picture of some real successes.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Presents in discrete essays an array of compelling and persuasive regional efforts across the country . . . From Indiana to Georgia to Maine, these intelligent model programs should inspire others.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Susan E Eaton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284365193467,"sku":"9781620970959","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_71443c26-bb6b-445e-a238-21f544564c26.jpg?v=1771402330","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/integration-nation-9781620970959","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}