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Autore |
Sen Rinku |
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Titolo |
The accidental American [[electronic resource] ] : immigration and citizenship in the age of globalization / / Rinku Sen, with Fekkak Mamdouh |
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San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-29946-8 |
9786612299469 |
1-57675-892-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Immigrants - New York (State) - New York |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 |
Electronic books. |
United States Emigration and immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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