Lockout
Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right
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Word Count
71,250 words, Guess
Page Count
285 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelockoutwhyameric00wuck
- Internet Archivelockoutwhyameric00wuc_h2r
- ISBN-101586483560
- ISBN-139781586483562
- Goodreads423493
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- LibraryThing1206601
- Library of Congress Control Number2006007259
- OCLC Control Number64510645
- Better World Books9781586483562
- Open LibraryOL8820681M
Classifications
- LCCJV6483 .W83 2006
- LCCJV6483.W83 2006
Description
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.
First Sentence
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.
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