Americans at the gate [electronic resource] : the United States and refugees during the Cold War / Carl J. Bon Tempo.
Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century AmericaPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.Description: xii, 264 pISBN:- 9780691123325 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781400829033 (e-book)
- 325/.21097309045 22
- JV6601 .B66 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Americans at the gate -- "The age of the uprooted man" : the United States and refugees, 1900 - 1952 -- "A mystic maze of enforcement" : the refugee relief program -- "From Hungary, new Americans" : the United States and Hungarian refugees -- "Half a loaf" : the failure of refugee policy and law reform, 1957-1965 -- "They are proud people" : the United States and refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 -- "The soul of our sense of nationhood" : human rights and refugees, in the 1970s -- Reform and retrenchment : the Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan administration's refugee policies -- Epilogue : the United States and refugees after the Cold War.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.