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The politics of immigration : partisanship, demographic change, and American national identity / Tom K. Wong.
LIBRA JV6483 .W67 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wong, Tom K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demographic transition.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- United States.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- Demographic transition--Political aspects--United States.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Immigration has been deeply woven into the fabric of American nation building. Immigrations can shape a nation; correspondingly, immigration policy can maintain, replenish, and even refashion it. Policy debates about the subject are thus not only about who to let in and how many, but also about a nation's identity. In The Politics of Immigration, Tom K. Wong shows how, against this highly charged backdrop, political parties promote their own immigration policies while attacking those of their political opponents. Racial and ethnic groups mobilize for political inclusion as immigration increases their numbers, but are often confronted by the counteractive mobilization of nativist groups. Legislators calibrate their positions on immigration by weighing traditional electoral concerns against a new demographic normal that is reshaping the American electorate. Why do legislators in Congress vote the way they do on immigration policy? Wong argues that contemporary immigration politics is defined both by the entrenchment of partisan divides and by demographic changes that are reshaping the electorate. As he shows, these changes are creating new opportunities to define what it means to be an American in a period of unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The politics of immigration
- Immigration policy in the United States
- The determinants of immigration policymaking in the United States
- Immigrants, citizens and (un)equal representation : a randomized field experiment
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wong, Tom K., author. Politics of immigration
- ISBN:
- 9780190235307
- 0190235306
- 9780190235314
- 0190235314
- OCLC:
- 954424177
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