ISBN:
9780252054501
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (286 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
325.730904
Keywords:
Immigrants-Social conditions
;
Immigrants-United States-History-20th century
;
United States-Emigration and immigration-History-20th century
Abstract:
Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Whose America? -- 1 Eliminating Immigrants in the Era of Mass Incarceration -- 2 Families Belong Together: Immigration Policy as Legal Violence -- 3 Give Me Your Best and Brightest: Chasing STEM Workers since World War II -- 4 Legislating Diversity in the Immigration Act of 1990 -- 5 In the Name of National Security: Ideological Exclusion from the Cold War to the War on Terror -- 6 "Uncle Sam Wants You Dead or Deported": How Fears of Sexuality, Gender, and Race Crafted U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 -- 7 "Human Rights for All": The Recent History of Immigration and Human Rights in the United States -- 8 Sanctuary Is Justice: Resilience and Ingenuity in the Sanctuary Movement since 1986 -- 9 Misreading History: The Supreme Court and the Thwarting of the U.S. Asylum System since the 1980s -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
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