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American Committee on Italian Migration
American Jewish Committee
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Anti-Catholicism
Anti-restrictionists
Anti-Semitism
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Ethnic politics
Family reunification
Hart-Celler Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965)
Illegal immigration
Immigrant mobilization in the United States
Immigration exclusion
Immigration restriction
Immigration Restriction League
Johnson-Reed Act (Immigration Act of 1924)
Literacy test
Louis Marshall
Lyndon B. Johnson and the 1965 immigration act
Max Kohler
McCarran-Walter Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952)
National origins quota system
Nativism
Order Sons of Italy
Patrick McCarran and the 1952 immigration act
Preference system for immigrants with family ties and skills
Progressivism and Immigration Reform
Product details
- ISBN 9781469652931
- Weight: 415g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Maddalena Marinari is associate professor of history at Gustavus Adolphus College and coeditor of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in An Age of Restriction, 1924–1965.
