Description |
1 online resource (xii, 208 pages) |
Series |
Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series ; v.32 |
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Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The murder of David Hennessy and its aftermath -- Chapter 2. The Italian government and U.S. border enforcement in the 1890s -- Chapter 3. From Ellis Island to Sunnyside Plantation, Arkansas -- Chapter 4. Colonization, the literacy test, and the evolution of gatekeeping -- Chapter 5. Partners in gatekeeping -- Epilogue. The arc of immigration restriction in the United States -- A note on sources -- Appendix. Italian immigrants admitted and rejected at Ellis Island, April-May 1896 -- Notes -- Index |
Summary |
"Partners in Gatekeeping illuminates a complex, distinctly transnational story that recasts the development of US immigration policies and institutions. Braun-Strumfels challenges existing ideas about the origins of remote control by paying particular attention to two programs supported by the Italian government in the 1890s: a government outpost on Ellis Island called the Office of Labor Information and Protection for Italians and rural immigrant colonization in the American South-namely a "plantation" in Arkansas called Sunnyside. Through those places, Braun-Strumfels argues that we must consider Italian migration, and the asymmetric partnership that emerged between the United States and Italy to manage that migration, an essential piece in the history of how the United States became a gatekeeping nation. In so doing, Partners reveals that the last ten years of the nineteenth century were critical to the establishment of the modern gatekeeping system by establishing the antecedents for "remote control" beyond the well-studied Chinese and Mexican cases"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
Office of Labor Information and Protection for Italians -- History
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Italians -- Southern States -- History
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Italians -- United States -- History
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Italians
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Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
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SUBJECT |
Sunnyside Plantation (Ark.) -- History
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Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History
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Subject |
United States
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Southern States
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Italy
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Arkansas -- Sunnyside Plantation
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0820365424 |
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9780820365428 |
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