Danielle Battisti

Whom We Shall Welcome

Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965

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Produktbeschreibung

Whom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian immigration along with the lobbying efforts of Italian Americans to change the quota laws. While Italian Americans (and other white ethnics) had attained virtual political and social equality with many other groups of older-stock Americans by the end of the war, Italians continued to be classified as undesirable immigrants. Her work is an important contribution toward understanding the construction of Italian American racial/ethnic identity in this period, the role of ethnic groups in U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era, and the history of the liberal immigration reform movement that led to the 1965 Immigration Act. Whom We Shall Welcome makes significant contributions to histories of migration and ethnicity, post-World War II liberalism, and immigration policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780823284382
• ISBN-10: 0823284387
• Artikelnr.: 53540923

Autorenporträt

Danielle Battisti is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
ix Introduction: Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion in Postwar America
1 1. Italian American Identity and Politics: World War II to the Cold War
17 2. The Italian American Immigration Reform Lobby
49 3. Refugees and Relatives: Italian Americans and the Refugee Relief Act
84 4. Resettlement Assistance and "A New Standard of Living"
111 5. The Corsi Affair
147 6. From Refugee Relief to Family Reunification
175 7. The End of the National Origins System and the Limits of White Ethnic Liberalism
202 Conclusion: The Deep Roots of White Ethnicity
1965 and Beyond
235 Notes
243 Bibliography
325 Index
343