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Whom we shall welcome : Italian Americans and immigration reform, 1945-1965 / Danielle Battisti.
LIBRA E184.I8 B38 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Battisti, Danielle, author.
- Series:
- Critical studies in Italian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian Americans--History--20th century.
- Italian Americans.
- Immigrants--Government policy.
- History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Italy--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Italy.
- Immigrants--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 366 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823284399
- 0823284395
- 9780823284382
- 0823284387
- OCLC:
- 1048437088
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