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Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the Middle Class. By William A. V. Clark. New York: Guilford Press, 2003. xvii + 254 pp. Figures, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $35.00 cloth.
In three decades the immigrant population in the U.S. has increased from 10 million to more than 28 million and continues to grow. In 1970 the foreignborn population was little more than 4%; today it has reached 11%. About 40% of the immigrant population growth in this 35-year period has occurred in the past decade alone. The consensus among demographers is that immigrants are the major contributor to the country's population growth.
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