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Lobbying for inclusion : rights politics and the making of immigration policy / Carolyn Wong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wong, Carolyn, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pressure groups--United States.
- Pressure groups.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 1965 passage of immigration reform, which removed racial quotas, generated a mass immigration to the United States from Latin America and Asia. This wave of immigration began in the immediate aftermath of the civil rights era and it led to the formation of a new set of ethnic advocacy groups in American politics.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Interest-group goals
- Hart-Cellar Act
- Post-Bracero dilemmas
- Legal and illegal immigration reform
- Revisiting reform in a Republican Congress
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8047-6775-0
- 1-4294-1598-3
- OCLC:
- 191934833
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