- Summary
- "In this affecting and innovative global history--starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border--Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children"-- Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Casavantes Bradford, Anita, author.
- Published
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
©2022
- Locale
- United States
États-Unis
- Contents
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Introduction: Child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in U.S. history
Against all odds : child-saving and exclusion in FDR's America
Collateral humanitarianism : child-saving during World War II
War orphans and children on demand : unaccompanied refugee minors and intercountry adoption, 1945-1956
Cold War kids : Hungarian unattached youth and refugee resettlement in the Eisenhower era, 1956-1958
An exception within an exception : the Cuban children's program, 1960-1966
The most difficult type of refugee : Southeast Asian unaccompanied minors and the reinvention of U.S. refugee policy, 1975-1989
The origins of a crisis : unaccompanied refugee minors and unaccompanied alien children, 1980-2018
Epilogue: The right to have rights? Migrant children and the geopolitics of compassion in the twenty-first century.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-278) and index.
Introduction: Child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in U.S. history -- Against all odds : child-saving and exclusion in FDR's America -- Collateral humanitarianism : child-saving during World War II -- War orphans and children on demand : unaccompanied refugee minors and intercountry adoption, 1945-1956 -- Cold War kids : Hungarian unattached youth and refugee resettlement in the Eisenhower era, 1956-1958 -- An exception within an exception : the Cuban children's program, 1960-1966 -- The most difficult type of refugee : Southeast Asian unaccompanied minors and the reinvention of U.S. refugee policy, 1975-1989 -- The origins of a crisis : unaccompanied refugee minors and unaccompanied alien children, 1980-2018 -- Epilogue: The right to have rights? Migrant children and the geopolitics of compassion in the twenty-first century.
