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Suffer the little children : child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in the United States / Anita Casavantes Bradford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Casavantes Bradford, Anita, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unaccompanied refugee children--United States--History.
- Unaccompanied refugee children.
- Immigrant children--Government policy--United States.
- Immigrant children.
- Immigrant children--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- In this affecting and innovative global history - starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the US southern border - Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children.
- Contents:
- Child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in U.S. history
- Against all odds: child-saving and exclusion in FDR's America
- Collateral humanitarianism: child-saving during World War II
- War orphans and children on demand: unaccompanied refugee minors and intercountry adoption, 1945-1956
- Cold War kids: Hungarian unattached youth and refugee resettlement in the Eisenhower era, 1956-1958
- An exception within an exception: the Cuban children's program, 1960-1966
- The most difficult type of refugee: Southeast Asian unaccompanied minors and the reinvention of U.S. refugee policy, 1975-1989
- The origins of a crisis: unaccompanied refugee minors and unaccompanied alien children, 1980-2018
- The right to have rights? Migrant children and the geopolitics of compassion in the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 26, 2023).
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908544-8-3
- 979-88-908544-9-0
- 1-4696-6917-X
- OCLC:
- 1308391787
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