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Confronting the Enemy

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Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis

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We ran into a big problem in the summer of 2007: a proposed bill in Congress to reform the immigration system stirred up an angry backlash throughout the country. One typical (misspelled) comment online stated, “Illitterate find a new home!” After the bill passed the Senate on May 24, the AM radio airwaves lit up with callers expressing outrage.

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    Peter Wogan

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Wogan, P. (2017). Confronting the Enemy. In: Corner-Store Dreams and the 2008 Financial Crisis. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52264-7_11

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