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

• Autore: Sen Rinku
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.8/73
• Soggetto topico: Immigrants - New York (State) - New York; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
• Soggetto geografico: United States Emigration and immigration
• Altri autori: MamdouhFekkak <1961->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The accidental American
• ISBN: 1-282-29946-8; 9786612299469; 1-57675-892-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782692803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: BK currents book.