Mothers without citizenship
Subtitle: Asian immigrant families and the consequences of welfare reform
By: Lynn Fujiwara.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780816650750; 9780816650767
Subjects: Women immigrants -- Services for -- United States; Asian American women -- Services for -- United States; Children of immigrants -- Services for -- United States; Public welfare -- United States
Description: In August 1996 President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that fulfilled his campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it,” and one month later the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act passed, deepening restrictions on immigrant and welfare provisions. These acts harshly and disproportionately affected Asian immigrants who continue to experience the legacy of this legislation today. Fujiwara reveals the ill effects of welfare reform on Asian immigrant women and families. Intertwining the issues of social and legal citizenship and arguing that these draconian measures redefined immigrants as outsiders whose lack of citizenship was used to deem them ineligible for public benefits, Fujiwara shows how these people are both a vulnerable, invisible group and active agents of change. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : sanctioning immigrants : "ending welfare as we know it"; title: New nativism and welfare reform: Asian immigrants as racialized foreigners; title: Welfare reform and the politics of citizenship; title: Refugees betrayed; title: The rush for citizenship : naturalization as a technocratic apparatus of exclusion; title: On not making ends meet : mothers without citizenship; title: The devaluation of immigrant families; title: Conclusion : the continuing significance of racialized citizenship.