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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 : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In this affecting and innovative global history-starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border-Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JV6600 2021
- ISBN
- 9781469667638
- 1469667630
- 9781469669175
- 146966917X
- LCCN
- 2021052600
- OCLC
- 1266895878
- 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 : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781469667652
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR JV6600 2021