Crossing borders : migration and citizenship in the twentieth-century United States / Dorothee Schneider.
2011
JV6450 .S345 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Crossing borders : migration and citizenship in the twentieth-century United States / Dorothee Schneider.
Author
Schneider, Dorothee, 1952-
ISBN
9780674047563 (alk. paper)
0674047567 (alk. paper)
0674047567 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 316 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
JV6450 .S345 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.8/7300904
Summary
"Aspiring immigrants to the United States make many separate border crossings in their quest to become Americans - in their home towns, ports of departure, U.S. border stations, and in American neighborhoods, courthouses, and schools. In a book of remarkable breadth, Dorothee Schneider covers both the immigrants' experience of their passage from an old society to a new one and American policymakers' debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the separate histories of Irish, English, German, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican immigrants, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant aspirations and government responses. Ingenuity and courage emerge repeatedly from these stories, as immigrants adapted their particular resources, especially social networks, to make migration and citizenship successful on their own terms. While officials argued over immigrants' fitness for admission and citizenship, immigrant communities forced the government to alter the meaning of race, class, and gender as criteria for admission. Women in particular made a long transition from dependence on men to shapers of their own destinies."--pub. desc.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : crossing borders and nation building
Leaving home
Landing in America
Forced departures
Americanization
Becoming a citizen
Epilogue : crossing borders in the late twentieth century.
Leaving home
Landing in America
Forced departures
Americanization
Becoming a citizen
Epilogue : crossing borders in the late twentieth century.