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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Battisti, Danielle (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
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.