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Maddalena Marinari
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidly industrializing nations, including the United States. Many Americans of northern and western European ancestry regarded these newcomers as biologically and culturally inferior--unassimilable--and by 1924, the United States had instituted national origins quotas to curtail immigration from southern and eastern Europe. Weaving together political, social, and transnational history, Maddalena Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country's immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable.
Strategic alliances among restrictionist legislators in Congress, a climate of anti-immigrant hysteria, and a fickle executive branch often left these immigrants with few options except to negotiate and accept political compromises. As they tested the limits of citizenship and citizen activism, however, the actors at the heart of Marinari's story shaped the terms of debate around immigration in the United States in ways we still reckon with today.
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Immigration Restriction League, Displaced Persons, Anti-Semitism, Order Sons of Italy, Immigration restriction, Anti-Catholicism, National origins quota system, Anti-restrictionists, Hart-Celler Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965), Johnson-Reed Act (Immigration Act of 1924), Cold War civil rights, Immigrant mobilization in the United States, Louis Marshall, Preference system for immigrants with family ties and skills, Immigration exclusion, American Committee on Italian Migration, Max Kohler, Nativism, American Jewish Committee, and Restrictionists, Lyndon B. Johnson and the 1965 immigration act, McCarran-Walter Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952), Literacy test, Emanuel Celler, Ethnic politics, Illegal immigration, Family reunification