We are essentially a nation of people who once belonged elsewhere, yet have long been deeply ambivalent about this part of our history. After World War I, the fear of the stranger overwhelmed America's confidence in our ability to create one nation out of many peoples. We slammed the door shut, only to realize our error and re-open it four decades later. Today, a record-high foreign-born population, global instability, and economic uncertainty have once again pushed America to a tipping point in our attitudes not only toward immigration but toward our role in the world—and the stakes have risen dramatically. Our economy depends more than ever on immigrants, not only for stereotypical low-skilled jobs, but much more so for maintaining our technological edge and promoting American products and services abroad. So far, America has reaped the lion's share of the gains of globalization. Yet for the first time ever, the world's best and brightest no longer see this country as the only destination of choice. In Lock Out , Michele Wucker documents the mistakes that led to our predicament today, and clarifies why it would be a catastrophic error of judgment, as well as a demonstration of a colossal lack of self-knowledge, if America attempted to turn its back on rest of the world and in so doing on the best of itself.

Michele Wucker

New York: Public Affairs

United States, United States of America

New York, cop. 2006

New York, NY, 2006

May 8, 2006

1st, 2006

[curator]associate-aaron-campbell@archive.org[/curator][date]20171205211645[/date][state]approved[/state]

topic: Immigrants

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Acknowledgments
2. (p2) Preface
3. (p3) 1 The Governator and the Wetback
4. (p4) 2 Patriots
5. (p5) 3 Becoming American
6. (p6) 4 The Eagle and the Ostrich
7. (p7) 5 American Jobs
8. (p8) 6 The Best and the Brightest
9. (p9) 7 Homeland Insecurity
10. (p10) 8 Lockout
11. (p11) 9 If Not Here, Then Where?
12. (p12) 10 The Day They Go Away
13. (p13) 11 Getting Immigration Right
14. (p14) Notes
15. (p15) Selective Bibliography
16. (p16) Index

theme: Immigrants

As globalization and terrorism intensify the pressure to close America's doors, this provocative book argues that to do so would be catastrophic. “America keeps getting immigration wrong because we only look at half of the story: we focus so hard on immigrants that we forget about our own role in shaping how people come here and how well they fit in...We exaggerate the differences between our immigrant ancestors and today’s immigrants because it is a convenient mask for our own failings.” – quotation from back cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index
The Governator and the wetback -- Patriots -- Becoming American -- The eagle and the ostrich -- American jobs -- The best and the brightest -- Homeland insecurity -- Lockout -- If not here, then where? -- The day they go away -- Getting immigration right

In April 2005, on one of the first spring days when it was warm enough to do so, Li Liu sat with me on the steps of the amphitheater at the foot of the Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Explores the current conflict within the United States about immigration policies, discussing the idea that immigrants must relinquish their native culture to fully assimilate into society and how this directly contradicts America's history of immigration.

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