Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction by Carly Goodman 1469673053 9781469673059

Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction Carly Goodman – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781469673059,1469673053,1469673045

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• ISBN 10:1469673053
• ISBN 13:9781469673059
• Author:Carly Goodman

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 “nation of immigrants” to secure visas for white immigrants, to the African countries where it flourished and fostered dreams of going to America.

Table contents:

1. Undocumented and Irish
2. Getting Legal
3. Past and Present
4. Diversity
5. Immigration Act of 1990
6. Winds of Change
7. Green Card Lawyers
8. Walisu Alhassan
9. Structural Adjustment
10. Luck
11. 419 and Scams
12. Post Office Rumors
13. Falling Bush
14. Cyber Cafés
15. Soft Power
16. Return
17. Amadou Diallo
18. Homeland
19. Obama’s Return
20. Reform
21. “Shithole Countries”

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