Suffer the Little Children: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion in the United States

by Anita Casavantes Bradford

Book Overview

In this affecting and innovative global history--starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border--Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children. At first a series of ad hoc Cold War-era initiatives, such policy grew into a more broadly conceived set of programs that claim universal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469667630
• ISBN13: 9781469667638
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"