@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674061309,
      recid = {443716},
      author = {Schneider, Dorothee,},
      title = {Crossing borders migration and citizenship in the  twentieth-century United States / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, MA :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674061309},
      pages = {1 online resource (xi, 316 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/443716},
}