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Crossing Borders: Migration and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century United States
Aspiring immigrants to the United States make many separate border crossings in their quest to become Americans--in their home towns, ports of departure, U.S. border stations, and in American neighborhoods, courthouses, and schools. In a book of remarkable breadth, Dorothee Schneider covers both the immigrants' experience of their passage from an old society to a new one a...more
Hardcover, 316 pages
Published
May 2nd 2011
by Harvard University Press
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THE IDEA OF writing history from the point of view of the “inarticulate” is hardly new: scholars have been viewing past eras from the bottom up for four decades. But somehow most histories of immigration still tell the story top-down, from the perspective of the receiving country. They chart changes of policy and law, and chronicle the politics behind those changes—politics driven not by unknown, silent players, but by powerful figures with loud voices. Read more...
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