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The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization »

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Authors: Rinku Sen, Fekkak Mamdouh
ISBN-13: 9781576754382, ISBN-10: 1576754383
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Rinku Sen

Book Synopsis

"The Accidental American" vividly illustrates the challenges and contradictions of U.S. immigration policy, and argues that, just as there is a free flow of capital in the world economy, there should be a free flow of labor.

Table of Contents

Introduction Coming to Citizenship in a Near-Global Age

1 Leaving Home

2 Us and Them After 9/11

3 Crimmigration

4 Learning to Organize

5 Building a Cooperative Restaurant

6 Scaling UpThroughout the Industry

7 Framing the Immigration Debate

8 Growing a Movement

9 Dreaming Globally

10 Everybody Means Everybody

Index

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