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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454458203321

Autore

Sen Rinku

Titolo

The accidental American [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and citizenship in the age of globalization / / Rinku Sen, with Fekkak Mamdouh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008

ISBN

1-282-29946-8

9786612299469

1-57675-892-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

A BK currents book

Altri autori (Persone)

MamdouhFekkak <1961->

Disciplina

304.8/73

Soggetti

Immigrants - New York (State) - New York

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001

Electronic books.

United States Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Moroccan-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 management