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Radical hospitality : American policy, media, and immigration

Title: Radical hospitality : American policy, media, and immigration / Nour Halabi.
Author: Halabi, Nour
Publication: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

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Description

221 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration re-imagines the ethical relationship of host societies towards newcomers by applying the concept of hospitality to two specific realms that impact the lives of immigrants in the United States: policy and media. The book calls attention to the moral responsibility of the host in welcoming a stranger. It sets the stage for the analysis with a historical background of the first host-guest diads of American hospitality, arguing that the early history of American hospitality was marked by the degeneration of the host-guest relationship into one of host-hostage, normalizing a racial discrimination that continues to plague immigration hospitality to this day. Author Nour Halabi presents a historical policy and media discourse analysis of immigration regulation and media coverage during three periods of US history: the 1880s and the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1920s and the National Origins Act and the 2000s and the Muslim travel ban. In so doing, it demonstrates how U.S. immigration hospitality, from its peaks in the post-Independence period to its nadir in the Muslim travel ban, has fallen short of true hospitality in spite of the nation's oft-touted identity as a "nation of immigrants." At the same time, the book calls attention to how a discourse of hospitality, although fraught, may allow a radical reimagining of belonging and authority that unsettles settler-colonial assumptions of belonging and welcome a restorative outlook to immigration policy and its media coverage in society"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History
Informational works.
Documents d'information.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Poisoned beginnings : the birth of the (immigrant) nation -- Period of exclusion : the Chinese Exclusion Act (1880s) -- Period of nativism : National Origins Act (1920s) -- Period of national security : Patriot Act (2000s) -- Future of American hospitality.

ISBN

9781978827738
1978827733
9781978827721
1978827725
9781978827745 (canceled/invalid)
9781978827752 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022009350

OCLC

on1338303530
1338303530
SCSB-14398502

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library