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The immigration crucible : transforming race, nation, and the limits of the law / Philip Kretsedemas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kretsedemas, Philip, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Government policy--United States--History--21st century.
- Emigration and immigration law--United States--History.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Immigration enforcement--United States.
- Immigration enforcement.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--21st century.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the debate over U.S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of enforcement. While immigration control forces lobby for intensifying enforcement for reasons that are transparently connected to their policy agenda, and pro-immigration forces favor the liberalization of migrant flows and more fluid labor market regulation, these transformations, meant to grow global trade and commerce networks, also enlarge the extralegal (or marginally legal) discretionary powers of the state and encourage a more enforcement-heavy governing agenda.Philip
- Contents:
- Introduction: an untimely intervention on the U.S. immigration debate: puzzling evidence: the contradictions of immigration enforcement and the politics of immigration policy; immigrants and state power: on the margins of the law
- A different kind of immigration, a new kind of statelessness
- The secret life of the state
- Concerned citizens, local exclusions: local immigration laws and the legacy of Jim Crow
- Race, nation, immigration: stranded at the crossroads of liberal thought
- Conclusion: the immigration crucible: immigration policy and enforcement under the Obama Administration; immigration policy, national identity, and the limits of executive authority.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613792907
- 9781281949448
- 1281949442
- 9780231527323
- 0231527322
- OCLC:
- 831121327
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