Fictive kinship : family reunification and the meaning of race and nation in American migration / Catherine Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family social work.

Family policy--United States.

Family policy.

Refugees--Family relationships--United States.

Refugees.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Family reunification.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of permanent residents or American citizens.Family reunification--policies that seek to preserve family unity during or following migration--is a central pillar of current immigration law, but it has existed in some form in American statutes since at.

Contents:

Note on terminology

Introduction

The fabric of our civilization as we know it : family in research and policy

I have kept my blood pure : gender propriety, class privilege, and racial purity in family reunification during the exclusion era

Reason of elemental humanity : the urgency of uniting families in the post-war era on the road to immigration reform

Our nation's efforts to protect families has fallen far short : pluralist ideals and vulnerable families

Conclusion

Notes

Appendix: Data and methods

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61044-812-X

OCLC:

874838183