02906nam 2200649 a 450 991045445820332120200520144314.01-282-29946-897866122994691-57675-892-3(CKB)1000000000692725(EBL)407887(OCoLC)476226589(SSID)ssj0000096469(PQKBManifestationID)11121858(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096469(PQKBWorkID)10082069(PQKB)11569147(MiAaPQ)EBC407887(CaSebORM)9781576758922(Au-PeEL)EBL407887(CaPaEBR)ebr10315370(CaONFJC)MIL229946(EXLCZ)99100000000069272520080522d2008 uy 0engurunu|||||txtccrThe accidental American[electronic resource] immigration and citizenship in the age of globalization /Rinku Sen, with Fekkak Mamdouh1st ed.San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishersc20081 online resource (259 p.)A BK currents bookDescription based upon print version of record.1-57675-438-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 managementBK currents book.ImmigrantsNew York (State)New YorkBiographySeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001United StatesEmigration and immigrationElectronic books.ImmigrantsSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.304.8/73Sen Rinku850346Mamdouh Fekkak1961-850347MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454458203321The accidental American1898694UNINA