The accidental American: immigration and citizenship in the age of globalization
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1. Verfasser: Sen, Rinku (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: San Francisco Berrett-Koehler Publishers c2008
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:BK currents book
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Beschreibung: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 Morrocan-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 manag
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 248 p.)
ISBN:1576758923
1609943082
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