Suffer the little children : child migration and the geopolitics of compassion in the United States /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Casavantes Bradford, Anita (Author)
Corporate Author:	Project Muse
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Unaccompanied refugee children > United States > History. Immigrant children > Government policy > United States. Immigrant children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States. Unaccompanied refugee children. United States. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.