Format:
Online-Ressource (153 p)
ISBN:
9780415947503
Content:
Probationary Americans examines contemporary immigration rules and how they affect the make-up of immigrant communities. The authors' key argument is that immigration policies place race and class as important criteria for gaining entry to the United States, and in doing so, alter the makeup of America's immigrant communities
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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PROBATIONARY AMERICANS; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; Chapter 1 The Next American Nation; Part I Law; Chapter 2 Governing Admission to the United States: Basic Themes; Chapter 3 Exclusion, Deportation, and Refugee Admissions; Part II The Unwanted; Chapter 4 Efficiency and Cost: Detention and Deportation under the Acts of 1996; Chapter 5 Toward Limits to Welfare and Family Reunification; Part III The Highly Skilled; Chapter 6 "Temporary Workers" in American Law and Society Since 1990; Chapter 7 Engineering the Model Minority; Chapter 8 Probationary Americans; Endnotes
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136075780
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415947503
Additional Edition:
Print version Probationary Americans : Contemporary Immigration Policies and the Shaping of Asian American Communities
Language:
English
Keywords:
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