First Things RSS Feed - John J. Miller https://www.firstthings.com/author/john-j-miller en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:49 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/john-j-miller 60 The Case for Immigration https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/12/the-case-for-immigration https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/12/the-case-for-immigration Thu, 01 Dec 1994 00:00:00 -0500 Immigration and Immigrants:
Setting the Record Straight
by michael fix and jeffrey s. passel
urban institute, 104 pages, $10 paper

Postwar Immigrant America:
A Social History
by reed ueda
bedford/st. martin's press, 182 pages, $10 paper

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]]> Strangers in Urban America https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/04/003-strangers-in-urban-america https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/04/003-strangers-in-urban-america Fri, 01 Apr 1994 00:00:00 -0500 To talk about immigrants is to talk about cities. About 1.1 million new immigrants arrive in the U.S. each year, both legally and illegally, and virtually all of them settle in or near a major metropolis. Without this annual infusion, many of these places would seem almost uninhabitable. From their remarkably high rates of small business ownership to, as Thomas Muller puts it in Immigrants and the American City , “their uncanny ability to materialize with umbrellas in the midst of unexpected downpours,” immigrants have propped up dozens of urban areas at a time when hordes of other people are bailing out of them.

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]]> Homesick in Miami https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/01/homesick-in-miami https://www.firstthings.com/article/1994/01/homesick-in-miami Sat, 01 Jan 1994 00:00:00 -0500 The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami
by david rieff
simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21

City on the Edge:
the transformation of miami
by alejandro portes and alex stepick
university of california press, 281 pages, $25

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