Whom we shall welcome : Italian Americans and immigration reform, 1945-1965
Danielle Battisti (Author)
This text looks at Italian American campaigns to reform American immigration laws from 1945 to 1965. It argues that even while Italian Americans were members of a coalition that pushed for liberal immigration reforms, their campaigns reflected a mix of liberalism and conservatism. Italian American immigration reformers invoked both secular principles of democratic liberalism and arguments based on Catholic social thought to call for a more humane and equal system of regulating immigration than the one in place based on a system of National Origins quotas
eBook, English, 2020
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Fordham University Press, New York, 2020
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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This edition previously issued in print: 2019