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 severly 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 rest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coleman, Sarah R., 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Illegal aliens.
Emigration and immigration law.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Emigration and immigration.
Illegal aliens > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 21st century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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