Americans at the Gate
The United States and Refugees during the Cold War
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2008
288 pages
978-1-4008-2903-3 (ISBN)
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Carl J. Bon Tempo is assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Albany.
Content
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
INTRODUCTION: Americans at the Gate 1
CHAPTER 1: "The Age of the Uprooted Man": The United States and Refugees, 1900-1952 11
CHAPTER 2: "A Mystic Maze of Enforcement": The Refugee Relief Program 34
CHAPTER 3: "From Hungary, New Americans": The United States and Hungarian Refugees 60
CHAPTER 4: "Half a Loaf": The Failure of Refugee Policy and Law Reform, 1957-1965 86
CHAPTER 5: "They Are Proud People": The United States and Refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 106
CHAPTER 6: "The Soul of Our Sense of Nationhood": Human Rights and Refugees in the 1970s 133
CHAPTER 7: Reform and Retrenchment: The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan Administration's Refugee Policies 167
EPILOGUE: The United States and Refugees after the Cold War 197
Notes 207
Index 257
Acknowledgments xi
INTRODUCTION: Americans at the Gate 1
CHAPTER 1: "The Age of the Uprooted Man": The United States and Refugees, 1900-1952 11
CHAPTER 2: "A Mystic Maze of Enforcement": The Refugee Relief Program 34
CHAPTER 3: "From Hungary, New Americans": The United States and Hungarian Refugees 60
CHAPTER 4: "Half a Loaf": The Failure of Refugee Policy and Law Reform, 1957-1965 86
CHAPTER 5: "They Are Proud People": The United States and Refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 106
CHAPTER 6: "The Soul of Our Sense of Nationhood": Human Rights and Refugees in the 1970s 133
CHAPTER 7: Reform and Retrenchment: The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan Administration's Refugee Policies 167
EPILOGUE: The United States and Refugees after the Cold War 197
Notes 207
Index 257
