Those Damned Immigrants : : America’s Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration / / Ediberto Román, Michael A. Olivas.

Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigrationThe election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuad...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Citizenship and Migration in the Americas ; 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric
  • 3. Empirical Data on Immigration
  • 4. Immigration’s Effects on State and Local Economies
  • 5. The Conflicted United States–Mexico Relationship Invitation and Exclusion
  • 6. Sociological and Psychological Insights on Anti-Immigrant Bias
  • 7. A Pragmatic Proposal for Immigration Reform
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author