Muddiman E., Power S., Taylor C. Civil Society and the Family. Policy Press,Bristol, 2020, pp. 203, References,Index, £60.00. ISBN 978-1-4473-5552-6

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations -     

Book Review: Theories of Practice: Symbolic Interactionist Translations. By James A. Forte. University Press of America,Lanham, MD, 2001, ISBN 0-7618-2025-6, pp. 512, $68.00, cloth

Sociological Practice -     

U.S. Immigration Policies, 1798-1992

U.S. policy towards immigrants since 1798 serves as a clear window through which to view both change and continuity in official resistance to the growth of a multicultural nation. Traditions of nativism, racism, and xenophobia are clearly documented in the history of immigration policy. So also are efforts to supplant these virulent traditions with greater receptivity to demographic diversity. Two centuries of federal policies on immigration, together with case records of social work agencies that served immigrants, constitute excellent texts from which to teach social work students about the historical ambivalence of the people of the United States and their government towards welcoming "others."     

Robert M. Teeter, 1939-2004

Robert M. "Bob" Teeter—political pollster, key strategistin the campaigns of every Republican president from 1968 to1992, co-director with Peter Hart of the Wall Street Journal/NBCPoll, board member and consultant to major corporations—diedof cancer at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on June 13. Hewas 65. "Teeter’s work with Hart evoked respect on both sidesof the political aisle," said Tim Russert, NBC News’sWashington bureau chief and host of Meet the Press. "You could always take Bob Teeter’s