Americans at the gate : the United States and refugees during the Cold War / Carl J. Bon Tempo

Publication | Library Call Number: JV6601 .B66 2008

Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Bon Tempo, Carl J. (Carl Joseph)
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-256) and index
Language: English
External Link: Table of contents only

Physical Description: xii, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Contents: Introduction : Americans at the gate
"The age of the uprooted man" : the United States and refugees, 1900-1952
"A mystic maze of enforcement" : the refugee relief program
"From Hungary, new Americans" : the United States and Hungarian refugees
"Half a loaf" : the failure of refugee policy and law reform, 1957-1965
"They are proud people" : the United States and refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966
"The soul of our sense of nationhood" : human rights and refugees in the 1970s
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.
ISBN: 9780691123325
0691123322 (alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-256) and index.
Subjects: Refugees--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
Cold War.
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