Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award

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2017     Expelling the poor : Atlantic Seaboard states and the nineteenth-century origins of American immigration policy by Hidetaka Hirota; honorable mention: Ambivalent embrace : Jewish upward mobility in postwar America by Rachel Kranson
2016     Grounds for dreaming : Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the California farmworker movement by Lori A. Flores.
2015     The rag race : how Jews sewed their way to success in America and the British Empire by Adam D. Mendelsohn
2014     The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority by Ellen Wu