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A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America by Aristide R. Zolberg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America about?
According to the national mythology, the United States has long opened its doors to people from across the globe, providing a port in a storm and opportunity for any who seek it. Yet the history of immigration to the United States is far different. Even before the xenophobic reaction against European and Asian immigrants in the late nineteenth century, social and economic interest groups worked to manipulate immigration policy to serve their needs. In A Nation by Design , Aristide Zolberg explores American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present, discussing how it has been used as a tool of nation building. A Nation by Design argues that the engineering of immigration policy has been prevalent since early American history. However, it has gone largely unnoticed since it took place primarily on the local and state levels, owing to constitutional limits on federal power during the slavery era. Zolberg profiles the vacillating currents of opinion on immigration throughout American history, examining separately the roles played by business interests, labor unions, ethnic lobbies, and nativist ideologues in shaping policy. He then examines how three different types
Who reads A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Aristide R. Zolberg
- Publisher
- Russell Sage Foundation ; Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674030749
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Law
