Model immigrants and undesirable aliens : the cost of immigration reform in the 1990s

Model immigrants and undesirable aliens : the cost of immigration reform in the 1990s / Christina Gerken.

During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. This book exam...

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Main Author: Gerken, Christina (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Subjects:
1900-2001
Immigrants > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Emigration and immigration law > United States > History > 20th century.
Immigration enforcement > United States > History > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
LAW > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Emigration and immigration law
Immigrants > Government policy
Immigration enforcement
Politics and government
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Political asepcts > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Building a Neoliberal Consensus
  • Exclusionary Acts : A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws
  • Family Values and Moral Obligations : The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric
  • Dehumanizing the Undocumented : The Legislative Language of Illegality
  • Manufacturing the Crisis : Encoded Racism in the Daily Press
  • Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures : The Neoliberal Human Interest Story
  • Conclusion : Legacies of Failed Reform.

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