Whose America?

U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980

Maria Cristina Garcia, Maddalena Marinari (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04513-4 (ISBN)

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A centerpiece of contemporary politics, draconian immigration policies have been long in the making. Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari edit works that examine the post-1980 response of legislation and policy to issues like undocumented immigration, economic shifts, national security, and human rights. Contributors engage with a wide range of ideas, including the effect of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and other laws on the flow of migrants and forms of entry; the impact of neoliberalism and post-Cold War political realignment; the complexities of policing and border enforcement; and the experiences of immigrant groups in communities across the United States. Up-to-date yet rooted in history, Whose America? provides a sophisticated account of recent immigration policy while mapping the ideological struggle to answer an essential question: which people have the right to make America their home or refuge?

Contributors: Leisy Abrego, Carl Bon Tempo, Julio Capó, Jr., Carly Goodman, Julia Rose Kraut, Monique Laney, Carl Lindskoog, Yael Schacher, and Elliott Young

Maria Cristina Garcia is the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America. Maddalena Marinari is an associate professor in history; gender, women, and sexuality studies; and peace studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965. Garcia and Marinari are two of the coeditors of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924–1965.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Whose America?  Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari

Mass Elimination: Removing Immigrants in the Era of Mass Incarceration  Elliot Young
“Families Belong Together”: Immigration Policy as Legal Violence  Leisy J. Abrego
“Give Me Your Best and Brightest”: Chasing STEM Workers since World War II  Monique Laney
Legislating Diversity in the Immigration Act of 1990  Carly Goodman
In the Name of National Security: Ideological Exclusion from the Cold War to the War on Terror  Julia Rose Kraut
“Uncle Sam Wants You Dead or Deported”: How Fears of Sexuality, Gender, and Race Crafted U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980  Julio Capó Jr.
“Human Rights for All”: The Recent History of Immigration and Human Rights in the United States  Carl Bon Tempo
Sanctuary Is Justice: Resilience and Ingenuity in the Sanctuary Movement since 1986  Carl Lindskoog
Misreading History: The United States Supreme Court and the Thwarting of the U.S. Asylum System since the 1980s  Yael Schacher

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2023
Co-Autor	Elliott Young
Einführung	Maria Cristina Garcia, Maddalena Marinari
Zusatzinfo	2 black & white photographs, 3 charts
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-04513-0 / 0252045130
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04513-4 / 9780252045134
Zustand	Neuware