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Suffer the little children : child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in the United States

Title
Suffer the little children : child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in the United States / Anita Casavantes Bradford.
Author
Casavantes Bradford, Anita
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

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1 online resource.
Subject
  • Unaccompanied refugee children > United States > History
  • Immigrant children > Government policy > United States
  • Immigrant children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in U.S. history -- Against all odds: child-saving and exclusion in FDR's America -- Collateral humanitarianism: child-saving during World War II -- War orphans and children on demand: unaccompanied refugee minors and intercountry adoption, 1945-1956 -- Cold War kids: Hungarian unattached youth and refugee resettlement in the Eisenhower era, 1956-1958 -- An exception within an exception: the Cuban children's program, 1960-1966 -- The most difficult type of refugee: Southeast Asian unaccompanied minors and the reinvention of U.S. refugee policy, 1975-1989 -- The origins of a crisis: unaccompanied refugee minors and unaccompanied alien children, 1980-2018 -- The right to have rights? Migrant children and the geopolitics of compassion in the twenty-first century.
ISBN
  • 9781469667652 (electronic bk.)
  • 1469667657 (electronic bk.)
OCLC
ebd1642299275
Author
Casavantes Bradford, Anita, author.
Title
Suffer the little children : child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in the United States / Anita Casavantes Bradford.
Publisher
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on print version record.
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Original 9781469667638 1469667630 9781469669175 146966917X (DLC) 2021052600
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