Author: Joseph Burke EganPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.).
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Citizenship in Boston
Author: Joseph Burke EganPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.).
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Annual Report of the Bureau of Immigration
Author: Massachusetts. Bureau of ImmigrationPublisher:
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Category : Americanization
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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The Road to Citizenship
Author: Sofya AptekarPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813575443
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal rights of full citizens. In The Road to Citizenship, Sofya Aptekar analyzes what the process of becoming a citizen means for these newly minted Americans and what it means for the United States as a whole. Examining the evolution of the discursive role of immigrants in American society from potential traitors to morally superior “supercitizens,” Aptekar’s in-depth research uncovers considerable contradictions with the way naturalization works today. Census data reveal that citizenship is distributed in ways that increasingly exacerbate existing class and racial inequalities, at the same time that immigrants’ own understandings of naturalization defy accepted stories we tell about assimilation, citizenship, and becoming American. Aptekar contends that debates about immigration must be broadened beyond the current focus on borders and documentation to include larger questions about the definition of citizenship. Aptekar’s work brings into sharp relief key questions about the overall system: does the current naturalization process accurately reflect our priorities as a nation and reflect the values we wish to instill in new residents and citizens? Should barriers to full membership in the American polity be lowered? What are the implications of keeping the process the same or changing it? Using archival research, interviews, analysis of census and survey data, and participant observation of citizenship ceremonies, The Road to Citizenship demonstrates the ways in which naturalization itself reflects the larger operations of social cohesion and democracy in America.
An Address to the Citizens of Boston
Author: Josiah QuincyPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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To the Citizens of Boston
Author: Citizens' Committee on the Public Schools (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Annual Report
Author: Massachusetts. Dept. of Education. Division of Immigration and AmericanizationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Offshore Citizens
Author: Noora LoriPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498175
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This study of citizenship and migration policies in the Gulf shows how temporary residency can become a permanent citizenship status.
Birthright Citizens
Author: Martha S. JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107150345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Explains the origins of the Fourteenth Amendment's birthright citizenship provision, as a story of black Americans' pre-Civil War claims to belonging.
Brief Review of Considerations Respectfully Submitted to the Citizens of Boston and Charlestown on the Annexation of These Two Cities
Author: Native of BostonPublisher:
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Category : Annexation (Municipal government)
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Citizen Poets of Boston
Author: Paul LewisPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611689309
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Welcome to Boston in the early years of the republic. Prepare to journey by stagecoach with a young man moving to the "bustling city"; stop by a tavern for food, drink, and conversation; eavesdrop on clerks and customers in a dry-goods shop; get stuck in what might have been Boston's first traffic jam; and enjoy arch comments about spouses, doctors, lawyers, politicians, and poets. As Paul Lewis and his students at Boston College reveal, regional vernacular poetry - largely overlooked or deemed of little or no artistic value - provides access to the culture and daily life of the city. Selected from over 4,500 poems published during the early national period, the works presented here, mostly anonymous, will carry you back to Old Boston to hear the voices of its long-forgotten citizen poets. A rich collection of lost poetry that will beguile locals and visitors alike.