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Americans at the gate : the United States and refugees during the Cold War
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- Creator
- Carl J. Bon Tempo
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691166575, 0691123322, 9781400829033, 1282964402, 0691166579, 1400829038, 9780691123325, 9786612964404
- OCLC
- ocn701704233, ocn708253655, ocn979632044, ocn216615601
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-256) and index.
- Introduction : Americans at the gate -- "The age of the uprooted man" : the United States and refugees, 1900-1952 -- "A mystic maze of enforcement" : the refugee relief program -- "From Hungary, new Americans" : the United States and Hungarian refugees -- "Half a loaf" : the failure of refugee policy and law reform, 1957-1965 -- "They are proud people" : the United States and refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 -- "The soul of our sense of nationhood" : human rights and refugees in the 1970s -- Reform and retrenchment : the Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan administration's refugee policies -- Epilogue : the United States and refugees after the Cold War