A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered : US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 /

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"This anthology brings together leading scholars of migration, ethnicity, race, and labor in a broadly comparative reconsideration of how immigration policy became a site for reconfiguring international relations, realigning labor priorities, and reimagining the attributes of citizenship. The d...

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Other Authors: García, María Cristina, 1960- (Editor), Hsu, Madeline Yuan-yin (Editor), Marinari, Maddalena (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Immigrants.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
LAW / Emigration & Immigration
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
Immigrants > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond borders : remote control and the continuing legacy of racism in immigration legislation / Elliott Young
  • Gatekeeping in the tropics : US immigration policy and the Cuban connection / Kathleen López
  • Contested terrain : debating refugee admissions in the Cold War / Laura Madokoro
  • The geopolitical origins of the 1965 Immigration Act / David FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín
  • Hunting for sailors : restaurant raids and the conscription of laborers during World War II / Heather Lee
  • The state management of immigrant labor : the decline of the Bracero Program, the rise of temporary worker visas / Ronald L. Mize
  • Setting the stage to bring in the 'highly skilled' / Monique Laney
  • Japanese agricultural labor program : temporary-worker immigration, US-Japan cultural diplomacy, and ethnic community making among Japanese Americans / Eiichiro Azuma
  • The undertow of reforming immigration / Ruth Ellen Wasem
  • Foreign, dark, young, citizen : Puerto Rican youth and the forging of an American identity, 1930-70 / Lorrin Thomas
  • Japanese war brides and the normalization of family unification after World War II / Arissa H. Oh
  • Love as mirror and pathway : the undocumented emotive configuration of Mexican immigration / Ana Elizabeth Rosas
  • Afterword : the black presence in US immigration history / Violet Showers Johnson.

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