Whose America?

Maria Cristina Garcia is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America. Maddalena Marinari is an associate professor in history; gender, women, and sexuality studies; and peace studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965. Garcia and Marinari are two of the coeditors of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924–1965.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Whose America?  Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari



Mass Elimination: Removing Immigrants in the Era of Mass Incarceration  Elliot Young
“Families Belong Together”: Immigration Policy as Legal Violence  Leisy J. Abrego
“Give Me Your Best and Brightest”: Chasing STEM Workers since World War II  Monique Laney
Legislating Diversity in the Immigration Act of 1990  Carly Goodman
In the Name of National Security: Ideological Exclusion from the Cold War to the War on Terror  Julia Rose Kraut
“Uncle Sam Wants You Dead or Deported”: How Fears of Sexuality, Gender, and Race Crafted U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980  Julio Capó Jr.
“Human Rights for All”: The Recent History of Immigration and Human Rights in the United States  Carl Bon Tempo
Sanctuary Is Justice: Resilience and Ingenuity in the Sanctuary Movement since 1986  Carl Lindskoog
Misreading History: The United States Supreme Court and the Thwarting of the U.S. Asylum System since the 1980s  Yael Schacher

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