Inventing the Immigration Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing the Immigration Problem write by Katherine Benton-Cohen. This book was released on 2018-05-07. Inventing the Immigration Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women and men trained in the new field of social science—fanned out across the country to collect data on these fresh arrivals. The trove of information they amassed shaped how Americans thought about immigrants, themselves, and the nation’s place in the world. Katherine Benton-Cohen argues that the Dillingham Commission’s legacy continues to inform the ways that U.S. policy addresses questions raised by immigration, over a century later. Within a decade of its launch, almost all of the commission’s recommendations—including a literacy test, a quota system based on national origin, the continuation of Asian exclusion, and greater federal oversight of immigration policy—were implemented into law. Inventing the Immigration Problem describes the labyrinthine bureaucracy, broad administrative authority, and quantitative record-keeping that followed in the wake of these regulations. Their implementation marks a final turn away from an immigration policy motivated by executive-branch concerns over foreign policy and toward one dictated by domestic labor politics. The Dillingham Commission—which remains the largest immigration study ever conducted in the United States—reflects its particular moment in time when mass immigration, the birth of modern social science, and an aggressive foreign policy fostered a newly robust and optimistic notion of federal power. Its quintessentially Progressive formulation of America’s immigration problem, and its recommendations, endure today in almost every component of immigration policy, control, and enforcement.
Borderline Americans
Borderline Americans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Borderline Americans write by Katherine Benton-Cohen. This book was released on 2009-04-30. Borderline Americans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Are you an American, or are you not?” This is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen’s provocative history, which ties a seemingly remote corner of the country to one of America’s central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries.
The Immigration Problem
The Immigration Problem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Immigration Problem write by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks. This book was released on 1912. The Immigration Problem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Inventing Modern Adolescence
Inventing Modern Adolescence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Modern Adolescence write by Sarah E. Chinn. This book was released on 2008-11-05. Inventing Modern Adolescence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and rock 'n' roll really mark the start of adolescent defiance? In Inventing Modern Adolescence Sarah E. Chinn follows the roots of American teenage identity further back, to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She argues that the concept of the "generation gap"—a stereotypical complaint against American teens—actually originated with the division between immigrant parents and their American-born or -raised children. Melding a uniquely urban immigrant sensibility with commercialized consumer culture and a youth-oriented ethos characterized by fun, leisure, and overt sexual behavior, these young people formed a new identity that provided the framework for today's concepts of teenage lifestyle.Addressing the intersecting issues of urban life, race, gender, sexuality, and class consciousness, Inventing Modern Adolescence is an authoritative and engaging look at a pivotal point in American history and the intriguing, complicated, and still very pertinent teenage identity that emerged from it.
Inventing Home
Inventing Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Home write by Akram Fouad Khater. This book was released on 2001-10-30. Inventing Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, shedding much needed light on the impact of emigration and immigration in the development of modernity. It focuses on a critical period in the social history of Lebanon--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French mandate in 1920. The book explores in depth the phenomena of return emigration, the questioning and changing of gender roles, and the rise of the middle class. Exploring new areas in the history of Lebanon, Inventing Home asks how new notions of gender, family, and class were articulated and how a local "modernity" was invented in the process. Akram Khater maps the jagged and uncertain paths that the fellahin from Mount Lebanon carved through time and space in their attempt to control their future and their destinies. His study offers a significant contribution to the literature on the Middle East, as well as a new perspective on women and on gender issues in the context of developing modernity in the region.
