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Informationen zum Autor Dorothee Schneider teaches in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870¿1900 . Klappentext Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants¿ passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers¿ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses. Zusammenfassung Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants’ passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers’ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses.
Sommario
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Crossing Borders and Nation Building 1. Leaving Home 2. Landing in America 3. Forced Departures 4. Americanization 5. Becoming a Citizen Epilogue: Crossing Borders in the Late Twentieth Century Appendix 1: Figures Appendix 2: Deportation Categories, 1917 Notes Index
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Crossing Borders deserves a place on the growing shelf of immigration histories. Filled with fresh material and compelling stories, it is a useful supplement to more traditional accounts of American immigration politics and policymaking.
-- Tamar Jacoby New Republic online
Wide-ranging and original, Crossing Borders is an important contribution to emerging literature that brings the state back into migration studies while still paying tribute to the agency of migrants. Schneider effectively demonstrates the all too important point that there is no single, simple, straightforward act of border crossing.
-- Donna R. Gabaccia, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
This masterful synthesis of American immigration history combines East, West, and South-Ellis Island, Angel Island, and the Rio Grande-in a concise, lively, and thoughtful style. Schneider's very readable study of major immigration issues sheds new light on the immigration experience as a lived process between state policy and individual memoir.
-- Nancy L. Green, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
