LEADER 03618nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910781388803321 005 20230725051820.0 010 $a0-674-26710-9 010 $a0-674-06130-6 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061309 035 $a(CKB)2550000000032950 035 $a(OCoLC)719370035 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10466303 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468155 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331631 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468155 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10497430 035 $a(PQKB)11464165 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300934 035 $a(DE-B1597)178256 035 $a(OCoLC)979953942 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061309 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300934 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466303 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000032950 100 $a20100902d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrossing borders$b[electronic resource] $emigration and citizenship in the twentieth-century United States /$fDorothee Schneider 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04756-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER 1. Leaving Home --$tCHAPTER 2. Landing in America --$tCHAPTER 3. Forced Departures --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix 1: Figures --$tAppendix 2: Deportation Categories, 1917 --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAspiring immigrants to the United States make many separate border crossings in their quest to become Americans-in their home towns, ports of departure, U.S. border stations, and in American neighborhoods, courthouses, and schools. In a book of remarkable breadth, Dorothee Schneider covers both the immigrants' experience of their passage from an old society to a new one and American policymakers' debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the separate histories of Irish, English, German, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican immigrants, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant aspirations and government responses.Ingenuity and courage emerge repeatedly from these stories, as immigrants adapted their particular resources, especially social networks, to make migration and citizenship successful on their own terms. While officials argued over immigrants' fitness for admission and citizenship, immigrant communities forced the government to alter the meaning of race, class, and gender as criteria for admission. Women in particular made a long transition from dependence on men to shapers of their own destinies.Schneider aims to relate the immigrant experience as a totality across many borders. By including immigrant voices as well as U.S. policies and laws, she provides a truly transnational history that offers valuable perspectives on current debates over immigration. 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xGovernment policy 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory. 615 0$aCitizenship 676 $a304.8/7300904 700 $aSchneider$b Dorothee$f1952-$01521505 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781388803321 996 $aCrossing borders$93760745 997 $aUNINA