| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) |
| Series |
A BK currents book |
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BK currents book.
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| Contents |
Introduction: coming to citizenship in a near-global age -- Leaving home -- Us and them after 9/11 -- Crimmigration -- Learning to organize -- Building a cooperative restaurant -- Scaling up throughout the industry -- Framing the immigration debate -- Growing a movement -- Dreaming globally -- Everybody means everybody |
| Summary |
The Accidental American vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U.S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor. Author Rinku Sen alternates chapters telling the story of one "accidental American"--Coauthor Fekkak Mamdouh, a Morrocan-born waiter at a restaurant in the World Trade Center whose life was thrown into turmoil on 9/11--with a thorough critique of current immigration policy. Sen and Mamdouh describe how members of the largely immigrant food industry workforce manag |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mamdouh, Fekkak, 1961-
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| SUBJECT |
Mamdouh, Fekkak, 1961- fast |
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Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Emigration and immigration
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Immigrants
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- New York
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mamdouh, Fekkak, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9781576758922 |
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1576758923 |
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9781609943080 |
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1609943082 |
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1282299468 |
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9781282299467 |
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