The politics of immigration
Subtitle: partisanship, demographic change, and American national identity
By: Tom K. Wong
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780190235307; 9780190235314
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Political culture; Government policy; Demographic transition
Description: Why do legislators in Congress do what they do when it comes to voting on immigration policy? In The oplitics of immigration, Tom K. Wong argues that contemporary immigration politics is defined by three core features: the entrenchment of partisan divides over the issue of immigration, demographic changes that are reshaping the electorate, and how these changes are creating new opportunities to define what it means to be an American in a period of unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of immigration; title: Immigration policy in the United States; title: The determinants of immigration policymaking in the United States; title: Immigrants, citizens and (un)equal representation : a randomized field experiment / (by Tom K. Wong, Michael Nicholson, and Nazita Lajevardi).