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^{282} Ole Waever et al., Identity, Migration and the New Security Agenda in Europe, (London: Pinter, 1993), p. 23.

^{283} Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Trends in International Migration, p. 304.

^{284} U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 2000 Statistical Yearbook.

^{285} Milton M. Gordon, Assimilation in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), p. 70–71.

^{286} Peter D. Salins, Assimilation, American Style (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 6, 48–49.

^{287} Gordon, Assimilation in American Life, p. 127, 244–45.

^{288} Will Herberg, Protestant Catholic Jew (Garden City: Doubleday, 1955), p. 33–34; George R. Stewart, American Ways of Life (New York: Doubleday, 1954), p. 23, cited in Gordon, Assimilation in American Life, p. 127–28.

^{289} Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954), p. 84–85.