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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
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Résumé: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 immigration reformers invoked both secular principles of democratic liberalism and arguments based on Catholic social thought to call for a more humane and equal system of regulating immigration than the one in place based on a system of National Origins quotas.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9780823284412