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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Salam, Reihan, author.     Subjects     United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Salam, Reihan, author.       by title:      Melting pot or civil...         MARC Display

Melting pot or civil war? : a son of immigrants makes the case against open borders / Reihan Salam. by Salam, Reihan, author. New York, New York : Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin House LLC, [2018] Subjects United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy. ISBN:  9780735216273 (hardcover) : 0735216274 (hardcover) Description:  213 pages ; 22 cm Contents:  The unfinished melting pot -- Somebody else's babies -- Race to the bottom -- Jobs robots will do -- It's a small world -- Nation building -- Conclusion. Requests:  0 Summary:  "For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist, or nativist bigots would want to restrict immigration. Anyone motivated by compassion and egalitarianism would choose open, or nearly-open, borders--or so the argument goes. Now, Reihan Salam, the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, turns this argument on its head. In this deeply researched but also deeply personal book, Salam shows why uncontrolled immigration is bad for everyone, including people like his family. Our current system has intensified the isolation of our native poor, and risks ghettoizing the children of poor immigrants. It ignores the challenges posed by the declining demand for less-skilled labor, even as it exacerbates ethnic inequality and deepens our political divides. If we continue on our current course, in which immigration policy serves wealthy insiders who profit from cheap labor, and cosmopolitan extremists attack the legitimacy of borders, the rise of a new ethnic underclass is inevitable. Even more so than now, class politics will be ethnic politics, and national unity will be impossible. Salam offers a solution, if we have the courage to break with the past and craft an immigration policy that serves our long-term national interests. Rejecting both militant multiculturalism and white identity politics, he argues that limiting total immigration and favoring skilled immigrants will combat rising inequality, balance diversity with assimilation, and foster a new nationalism that puts the interests of all Americans--native-born and foreign-born--first"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 325.73 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 325.73 Sa Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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