The walls within : the politics of immigration in modern America /

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"In 1965, the Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quotas of the 1920s that had severely limited immigration to American from everywhere but Western Europe. The result was mass immigration from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. The wave of immigration and the res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coleman, Sarah R., 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Politics and society in modern America.
Temas:
1900-2099
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Noncitizens > United States.
Illegal immigration > United States.
Noncitizens.
Undocumented Immigrants
Immigrants clandestins > États-Unis.
Immigration clandestine > États-Unis.
Immigrants clandestins.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Illegal immigration.
Emigration and immigration law.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 21st century.
United States.
1996 Welfare Reform Act.
287(g) program.
anti-immigrant activism.
anti-immigrant reform.
conservative legal activism.
conservative party politics.
Contract with America.
deregulatory policies.
employer sanctions.
employment rights.
Equal Protection Clause.
federalism.
food stamps.
Fourteenth Amendment.
free-market policies.
immigration enforcement.
judicial restraint.
labor rights.
Latino lobby.
law enforcement.
legal aid groups.
Plyler v. Doe.
proimmigration agenda.
Proposition 187.
SSI.
Supplemental Security Income.
unauthorized students.
welfare benefit restriction.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The tough question
  • The rose's sharp thorn : Texas and the rise of unauthorized immigrant education activism
  • "A subclass of illiterates" : the presidential politics of unauthorized immigrant education
  • "Heading into uncharted waters" : Congress, employer sanctions, and labor rights
  • "A riverboat gamble" : the passage of employer sanctions
  • "To reward the wrong way is not the American way" : welfare and the battle over immigrants' benefits
  • From the border to the heartland : local immigration enforcement and immigrants' rights
  • Epilogue.

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