Whom We Shall Welcome : Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965 /
This text looks at Italian American campaigns to reform American immigration laws from 1945 to 1965. It argues that even while Italian Americans were members of a coalition that pushed for liberal immigration reforms, their campaigns reflected a mix of liberalism and conservatism. Italian American i...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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Édition: | First edition. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in postwar America
- Italian American identity and politics: World War II to the Cold War
- The Italian American immigration reform lobby
- Refugees and relatives: Italian Americans and the Refugee Relief Act
- Resettlement assistance and "a new standard of living"
- The Corsi Affair
- From refugee relief to family reunification
- The end of the national origins system and the limits of white ethnic liberalism
- The deep roots of white ethnicity, 1965 and beyond.