Whom We Shall Welcome : : Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965 / / Danielle Battisti.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Studies in Italian America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 14 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introduction. Boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in postwar America
- One. Italian American identity and politics: world war ii to the cold war
- Two. The Italian American immigration reform lobby
- Three. Refugees and relatives: Italian Americans and the refugee relief act
- Four. Resettlement assistance and "a new standard of living"
- Five. The Corsi affair
- Six. From refugee relief to family reunifi cation
- Seven. The end of the national origins system and the limits of white ethnic liberalism
- Conclusion. The deep roots of white ethnicity, 1965 and beyond
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index