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200 14$aThe accidental American$b[electronic resource] $eimmigration and citizenship in the age of globalization /$fRinku Sen, with Fekkak Mamdouh
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aSan Francisco $cBerrett-Koehler Publishers$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (259 p.)
225 1 $aA BK currents book
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-57675-438-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction: 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.
330   $aThe 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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606   $aImmigrants$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography
606   $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
607   $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration
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615  0$aImmigrants
615  0$aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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