The immigration crucible
Subtitle: transforming race, nation, and the limits of the law
By: Philip Kretsedemas
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231157605; 9780231157612; 9780231527323
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; History; Political aspects; Government policy; Emigration and immigration law; Immigrants; Immigration enforcement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an untimely intervention on the U.S. immigration debate: puzzling evidence: the contradictions of immigration enforcement and the politics of immigration policy; immigrants and state power: on the margins of the law; title: A different kind of immigration, a new kind of statelessness; title: The secret life of the state; title: Concerned citizens, local exclusions: local immigration laws and the legacy of Jim Crow; title: Race, nation, immigration: stranded at the crossroads of liberal thought; title: Conclusion: the immigration crucible: immigration policy and enforcement under the Obama Administration; immigration policy, national identity, and the limits of executive authority.