Walls Within (eBook)

The Politics of Immigration in Modern America

Sarah R. Coleman (Autor)

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2021
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18592-7 (ISBN)

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A history of the battles over US immigrants' rights since 1965-and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national quotas in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach. But subsequent demographic shifts resulted in a backlash over the social contract and the rights of citizens versus noncitizens. In The Walls Within, Sarah Coleman explores those political clashes, focusing not on attempts to stop immigration at the border, but on efforts to limit immigrants' rights within the United States through domestic policy. Drawing on new materials from the Carter, Reagan, and Clinton administrations, and immigration and civil rights organizations, Coleman exposes how the politics of immigration control has undermined the idea of citizenship for all.Coleman shows that immigration politics was not just about building or tearing down walls, but about employer sanctions, access to schools, welfare, and the role of local authorities in implementing policies. In the years after 1965, a rising restrictionist movement sought to marginalize immigrants in realms like public education and the labor market. Yet throughout the 1970s and 1980s, restrictionists faced countervailing forces committed to an expansive notion of immigrants' rights. In the 1990s, with national politics gridlocked, anti-immigrant groups turned to statehouses to enact their agenda. Achieving strength at the local level, conservatives supporting immigration restriction actually acquired more influence under the Clinton presidency than even during the so-called Reagan revolution, resulting in dire consequences for millions of immigrants.Revealing the roots behind much of today's nativist sentiment, The Walls Within examines debates about who is entitled to the American dream, and how such dreams can be subverted for those already calling the country home.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1996 Welfare Reform Act • 287(g) program • activism • Affirmative Action • Amendment • American Empire (series) • americans • anti-immigrant activism • anti-immigrant reform • Bill Clinton • Brown v. Board of Education • Chamber of commerce • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • civil liberties • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • conservative legal activism • Conservative party politics • Consideration • Contract with America • Deportation • deregulatory policies • desegregation • Desegregation busing • domestic policy • Due Process Clause • Election • employer sanctions • Employment • employment discrimination • Employment rights • Equal Protection Clause • Federal government of the United States • Federalism • federal law • Federation for American Immigration Reform • Food Stamps • foreign policy • Fourteenth Amendment • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • free-market policies • Funding • Guest worker program • Ideology • Illegal Immigration • Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 • Immigration • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 • Immigration and Naturalization Service • immigration enforcement • Immigration Law • Immigration Policy • Immigration Reform • Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 • Immigration to the United States • injunction • Institution • Jimmy Carter • Judicial restraint • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • labor rights • Latino lobby • Law enforcement • lawyer • Legal Aid • legal aid groups • Legislation • Legislative history • Litmus test (politics) • lobbying • Medicaid • Mexican Americans • mexicans • Migrant worker • National Council of La Raza • Nationality • National policy • Nativism (politics) • Newt Gingrich • Operation Wetback • Opposition to immigration • Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act • plaintiff • Plyler v. Doe • Policy • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Precedent • Presidency of Ronald Reagan • proimmigration agenda • Proposition 187 • Provision (contracting) • Public sphere • Racial segregation • Racism • Refugee • Republican Party (United States) • Ronald Reagan • Ron Klain • school district • Social Security Number • solicitor general • SSI • State Government • State law (United States) • Statute • Supplemental Security Income • Tax • Trade Union • unauthorized students • Unemployment • United States Assistant Attorney General • United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary • University of Texas at Austin • Voting • Walter Mondale • welfare • welfare benefit restriction • Welfare reform • Welfare State • Woodrow Wilson
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18592-1 / 0691185921
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18592-7 / 9780691185927