A Nation by Design : Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America / Aristide R. Zolberg.
Zolberg, Aristide R., author.
2022
JV6483 ǂb Z65 2006eb
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Title A Nation by Design : Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America / Aristide R. Zolberg.
Author Zolberg, Aristide R., author.
ISBN 9780674045460
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674045460
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2006
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (672 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674045460 doi
Call Number JV6483 ǂb Z65 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 325.73
Summary According to the national mythology, the United States has long opened its doors to people from across the globe, providing a port in a storm and opportunity for any who seek it. Yet the history of immigration to the United States is far different. Even before the xenophobic reaction against European and Asian immigrants in the late nineteenth century, social and economic interest groups worked to manipulate immigration policy to serve their needs. In A Nation by Design, Aristide Zolberg explores American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present, discussing how it has been used as a tool of nation building. A Nation by Design argues that the engineering of immigration policy has been prevalent since early American history. However, it has gone largely unnoticed since it took place primarily on the local and state levels, owing to constitutional limits on federal power during the slavery era. Zolberg profiles the vacillating currents of opinion on immigration throughout American history, examining separately the roles played by business interests, labor unions, ethnic lobbies, and nativist ideologues in shaping policy. He then examines how three different types of migration-legal migration, illegal migration to fill low-wage jobs, and asylum-seeking-are shaping contemporary arguments over immigration to the United States. A Nation by Design is a thorough, authoritative account of American immigration history and the political and social factors that brought it about. With rich detail and impeccable scholarship, Zolberg's book shows how America has struggled to shape the immigration process to construct the kind of population it desires.
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Series Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press
In HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Themes and Perspectives
2 From Empire to Republic
3 An Acquisitive Upstart
4 The American System
5 Tocqueville's Footnote
6 Seward's Other Follies
7 "An Intelligent and Effective Restriction"
8 A Nation Like the Others
9 The Ambiguities of Reform
10 The Elusive Quest for Coherence
11 Why the Gates Were Not Shut
Conclusion: National Design in a Globalizing World
Appendix: Immigration Graphs
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

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