The Walls Within : : The Politics of Immigration in Modern America / / Sarah R. Coleman.
A history of the battles over US immigrants’ rights since 1965—and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national "as in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction the tough question
- 1 The Rose’s Sharp Thorn Texas and the rise of unauthorized immigrant education activism
- 2 “A Subclass of Illiterates” the presidential politics of unauthorized immigrant education
- 3 “Heading into Uncharted Waters” congress, employer sanctions, and labor rights
- 4 “A Riverboat Gamble” the passage of employer sanctions
- 5 “To Reward the Wrong Way Is Not the American Way” welfare and the battle over immigrants’ benefits
- 6 From the Border to the Heartland local immigration enforcement and immigrants’ rights
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index