Citizens, Strangers, And In-betweens
Subtitle: Essays On Immigration And Citizenship
By: Peter Schuck
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780429501616
Subjects: Sociology; Social policy; Sociologie; Politique sociale; Public policy
Description: "Immigration is one of the critical issues of our time. In Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens, an integrated series of fourteen essays, Yale professor Peter Schuck analyzes the complex social forces that have been unleashed by unprecedented legal and illegal migration to the United States, forces that are reshaping American society in countless ways. Schuck first presents the demographic, political, economic, legal, and cultural contexts in which these transformations are occurring. He then shows how the courts, Congress, and the states are responding to the tensions created by recent immigration. Next, he explores the nature of American citizenship, challenging traditional ways of defining the national community and analyzing the controversial topics of citizenship for illegal alien children, the devaluation and revaluation of American citizenship, and plural citizenship. In a concluding section, Schuck focuses on four vital and explosive policy issues: immigration's effects on the civil rights movement, the cultural differences among various American ethnic groups as revealed in their experiences as immigrants throughout the world, the protection of refugees fleeing persecution, and immigration's effects on American society in recent years."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Part One Contexts  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 1 The Immigration System Today  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: part Two The Courts and Immigration  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 2 The Transformation of Immigration Law  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 3 Continuity and Change in the Courts: 1979?1990  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: part Three The Politics of Immigration  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 4 The Politics of Rapid Legal Change: Immigration Policy, 1980?1990  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 5 Reform Continues: 1990?1998  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 6 The Message of Proposition 187: Facing Up to Illegal Immigration  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: part Four Citizenship and Community  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 7 The Devaluation of American Citizenship  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 8 The Reevaluation of American Citizenship  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 9 Consensual Citizenship  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 10 Plural Citizenships  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: part Five Current Policy Debates  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 11 The New Immigration and the Old Civil Rights  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 12 Perpetual Motion: Migrations and Cultures  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 13 Refugee Burden-Sharing: A Modest Proposal  -- Peter H. Schuck; title: chapter 14 Alien Rumination: What Immigrants have Wrought in America -- Peter H. Schuck.