Suffer the little children : child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in the United States / Anita Casavantes Bradford.
| Author/creator | Casavantes Bradford, Anita author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022] |
| Description | xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781469667652 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021052600 |
| ISBN | 9781469667638 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469667630 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469669175 paperback |
| ISBN | 146966917X paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | JV6455 .C34 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |