Partners In Gatekeeping: How Italy Shaped U.S. Immigration Policy Over Ten Pivotal Years, 1891–1901 (Politics And Culture In The Twentieth-Century South Ser.)

Partners in Gatekeeping illuminates a complex, distinctly transnational story that recasts the development of US immigration policies and institutions. Braun-Strumfels challenges existing ideas about the origins of remote control by paying particular attention to two programs supported by the Italian government in the 1890s: a government outpost on Ellis Island called the Office of Labor Information and Protection for Italians and rural immigrant colonization in the American South-namely a plantation" in Arkansas called Sunnyside. Through those places, Braun-Strumfels argues that we must consider Italian migration, and the asymmetric partnership that emerged between the United States and Italy to manage that migration, an essential piece in the history of how the United States became a gatekeeping nation. In so doing, Partners reveals that the last ten years of the nineteenth century were critical to the establishment of the modern gatekeeping system by establishing the antecedents for "remote control" beyond the well-studied Chinese and Mexican cases"--

• | Author: Lauren Braun-Strumfels
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0820365408
• | ISBN-13: 9780820365404