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 |
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. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (352 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780823284412 |