Suffer the little children child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in the United States / Anita Casavantes Bradford.

Author/creator Casavantes Bradford, Anita
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Descriptionxii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021052600
ISBN9781469667638 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN9781469669175 (paperback)
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