Americans at the Gate : : The United States and Refugees during the Cold War / / Carl J. Bon Tempo.

• VerfasserIn: Bon Tempo, Carl J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Society in Modern America ; 57
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opp...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Americans at the Gate
• Chapter 1. "The Age of the Uprooted Man": The United States and Refugees, 1900-1952
• Chapter 2. "A Mystic Maze of Enforcement": The Refugee Relief Program
• Chapter 3. "From Hungary, New Americans": The United States and Hungarian Refugees
• Chapter 4. "Half a Loaf": The Failure of Refugee Policy and Law Reform, 1957-1965
• Chapter 5. "They Are Proud People": The United States and Refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966
• Chapter 6. "The Soul of Our Sense of Nationhood": Human Rights and Refugees in the 1970s
• Chapter 7. Reform and Retrenchment: The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan Administration's Refugee Policies
• Epilogue. The United States and Refugees after the Cold War
• Notes
• Index
• Backmatter