The Immigrant Superpower

How Brains, Brawn, and Bravery Make America Stronger

Tim Kane (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-008819-4 (ISBN)

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An insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States' economic power and national security.

America was built by immigrants, yet there has long been strong political opposition to immigration. In recent years, the hostility toward immigration has reached a tipping point. While partisan fighting and confusion over basic policy dominate a broken conversation, we often overlook a fundamental American truth: immigration makes America great.

In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has been a source of American strength and American exceptionalism since the nation's founding. This book explores how immigration is essential to the military strength, economic power, and innovation of the United States. By combining stories of immigrants who have contributed to the American experience, including in the military and business, with analysis of immigration's effects on wages and unemployment, Kane presents a clear defense of greater immigration as a matter of national security. The only way to win the great power competition of the twenty-first century is to embrace America's identity as a nation of immigrants. As politicians in Washington continue to negotiate with no intention to reach an agreement, Kane exposes the immigration consensus hiding in plain sight. Using original, in-depth surveys of American attitudes toward immigration reform he maps out a step-by-step process to achieve reform.

Straight-talking and full of common sense, The Immigrant Superpower stands in sharp contrast to the wholly dysfunctional debate about immigration in the United States.

Tim Kane is the J.P. Conte research fellow in Immigration Studies at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and has twice served as a senior economist on the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. Kane is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California San Diego. Kane is the author of Bleeding Talent (2013) and Balance: The Economics of Great Power from Modern America to Ancient Rome with Glenn Hubbard (2013).

List of Boxes, Tables, and Figures
Acknowledgements

PART I. LIFE AND DEATH
1. Oaths
2. Threats
3. Invasions

PART II. PEOPLE AND TRIBE
4. Origins
5. Presidents
6. Eras
7. Walls
8. Divides

PART III. RESOURCES AND RIVALRY
9. Brawn
10. Bravery
11. Brains

PART IV. MICRO AND MACRO
12. Narratives
13. Economies
14. Cultures
15. Americans
16. Futures

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	244 x 165 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-008819-2 / 0190088192
ISBN-13	978-0-19-008819-4 / 9780190088194
Zustand	Neuware