Title Partners in gatekeeping : how Italy shaped U. S. immigration policy over ten pivotal years, 1891-1901 / Lauren Braun-Strumfels

Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 208 pages) Series Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Series ; v.32 Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South. Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The murder of David Hennessy and its aftermath -- Chapter 2. The Italian government and U.S. border enforcement in the 1890s -- Chapter 3. From Ellis Island to Sunnyside Plantation, Arkansas -- Chapter 4. Colonization, the literacy test, and the evolution of gatekeeping -- Chapter 5. Partners in gatekeeping -- Epilogue. The arc of immigration restriction in the United States -- A note on sources -- Appendix. Italian immigrants admitted and rejected at Ellis Island, April-May 1896 -- Notes -- Index Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Office of Labor Information and Protection for Italians -- History Italians -- Southern States -- History Italians -- United States -- History Italians Emigration and immigration -- Government policy SUBJECT Sunnyside Plantation (Ark.) -- History Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History Subject United States Southern States Italy Arkansas -- Sunnyside Plantation Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0820365424 9780820365428

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