Unwanted : Italian and Jewish mobilization against restrictive laws, 1882-1965 / Maddalena Marinari.

"This book is a ... study of how restrictionists and anti-restrictionists alike have influenced the process of immigration reform since the rise of a gate-keeping nation at the end of the nineteenth century. It provides a single ... story about how the dynamics of immigration reform have made the ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marinari, Maddalena (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Subjects:
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Immigrants > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Italians > Political activity > United States.
Jews > Political activity > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States > History > 20th century.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration law.
Immigrants > Political activity.
Italians > Political activity.
Jews > Political activity.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:267 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The battle begins : World War I and the end of open immigration from Europe
  • The doors of America are worse than shut when they are half-way open : from the literacy test to the national origins quota system, 1920-1929
  • Almost as inaccessible as Tibet : mobilizing under restriction before World War II
  • International migration and one world : reframing the debate on immigration reform in a new era, 1945-1952
  • A thing of shreds and patches : challenging immigration reform from within, 1952-1960
  • Reform at last : a victory for whom?