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Crossing Borders : Migration and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century United States.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061309
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crossing BordersDDC classification:
  • 304.8/7300904
LOC classification:
  • JV6450
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Crossing Borders and Nation Building -- 1. Leaving Home -- 2. Landing in America -- 3. Forced Departures -- 4. Americanization -- 5. Becoming a Citizen -- Epilogue: Crossing Borders in the Late Twentieth Century -- Appendix 1: Figures -- Appendix 2: Deportation Categories, 1917 -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants' passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers' debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Crossing Borders and Nation Building -- 1. Leaving Home -- 2. Landing in America -- 3. Forced Departures -- 4. Americanization -- 5. Becoming a Citizen -- Epilogue: Crossing Borders in the Late Twentieth Century -- Appendix 1: Figures -- Appendix 2: Deportation Categories, 1917 -- Notes -- Index.

Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants' passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers' debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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