Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens : The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s /
During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. This book exam...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Building a Neoliberal Consensus
- Exclusionary Acts : A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws
- Family Values and Moral Obligations : The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric
- Dehumanizing the Undocumented : The Legislative Language of Illegality
- Manufacturing the Crisis : Encoded Racism in the Daily Press
- Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures : The Neoliberal Human Interest Story
- Conclusion : Legacies of Failed Reform.