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Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965

Whom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965

Battisti, Danielle

Paperback

Series: Critical Studies in Italian America

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0823284387
ISBN13: 9780823284382
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Mar 5 2019
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner, Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award

Whom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian immigration along with the lobbying efforts of Italian Americans to change the quota laws. While Italian Americans (and other white ethnics) had attained virtual political and social equality with many other groups of older-stock Americans by the end of the war, Italians continued to be classified as undesirable immigrants. Her work is an important contribution toward understanding the construction of Italian American racial/ethnic identity in this period, the role of ethnic groups in U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era, and the history of the liberal immigration reform movement that led to the 1965 Immigration Act.

Whom We Shall Welcome makes significant contributions to histories of migration and ethnicity, post-World War II liberalism, and immigration policy.

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