Dreamland (eBook)

America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Carly Goodman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
400 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7305-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery was created to do just that.Dreamland tells the surprising story of this unlikely government program and its role in American life as well as the global story of migration. Historian Carly Goodman takes readers from Washington, D.C., where proponents deployed a colorblind narrative about our "e;nation of immigrants"e; to secure visas for white immigrants, to the African countries where it flourished and fostered dreams of going to America. From the post office to the internet, aspiring emigrants, visa agents, and others embraced the lottery and tried their luck in a time of austerity and limits. Rising African immigration to the United States has enriched American life, created opportunities for mobility, and nourished imagined possibilities. But the promise of the American dream has been threatened by the United States' embrace of anti-immigrant policies and persistent anti-Black racism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 419 scams • Alan K. Simpson • Anglophone Crisis • barack obama • Bill Clinton • Brian Donnelly • Bruce Morrison • Cameroon • Cape Coast Castle • Charles Schumer • comprehensive immigration reform • Diversity • Diversity Visa Lottery • Donald Trump • Ellis Island • Falling bush/Bushfalling • George W. Bush • Ghana • green card lottery • “Greener pastures” • Hart-Celler Act/Immigration Act of 1965 • Howard Berman • Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 • Immigration Act of 1990 • immigration restriction • Internet spam • Irish Immigration Reform Movement • Jerry John Rawlings • John Joseph Moakley • Kwame Nkrumah • Martha Siegel and Laurence Canter • Nigeria • Paul Biya • Statue of Liberty • Ted Kennedy • Trans-Atlantic slave trade
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7305-3 / 1469673053
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7305-9 / 9781469673059