Lockout
Subtitle: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right
Publisher: PublicAffairs; Public Affairs
Published: May 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781586483562
Subjects: Central government policies; Immigration & emigration; United States; Immigrants; Public Policy; Law; Business / Economics / Finance; Sociology; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Economic Conditions; Emigration & Immigration; Emigration And Immigration; Government policy; Immigration and emigration
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.
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.