Taking local control : immigration policy activism in U.S. cities and states / edited by Monica Varsanyi.

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Other Authors: Varsanyi, Monica, 1971-
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Local government > United States.
State governments > United States.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Physical Description:viii, 308 pages : figures, maps
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : state and local immigration policy activism : interdisciplinary perspectives / Monica W. Varsanyi
  • Legal limits on immigration federalism / Cristina M. Rodrøguez, Muzaffar Chishti, and Kimberly Nortman
  • Immigration and local governments : inclusionary local policies in the era of state rescaling / Pablo A. Mitnik and Jessica Halpern-Finnerty
  • Partisanship, not Spanish : explaining municipal ordinances affecting undocumented immigrants / S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Tom Wong
  • Immigration enforcement by state and local police : the impact on the enforcers and their communities / Michele Waslin
  • The public policy implications of state-level worksite migration enforcement : the experiences of Arizona, Mississippi, and Illinois / Marc Rosenblum and Leo Gorman
  • City ordinances as "immigration policing by proxy" : local governments and the regulation of undocumented day laborers / Monica W. Varsanyi
  • Neoliberalism, community development, and anti-immigrant backlash in Hazleton, Pennsylvania / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Jamie Longazel
  • Localized immigration policy : the view from a new immigrant gateway, Charlotte, North Carolina / Owen Furuseth and Heather Smith
  • Growing pains: local response to recent immigrant settlement in suburban Washington DC / Jill H. Wilson, Audrey Singer, and Brooke DeRenzis
  • Local immigration policy and global ambitions in Vancouver and Phoenix / Doris Marie Provine
  • All immigration politics is local : the day labor ordinance in Vista, California / Michael S. Danielson
  • The "law and order" foundation of local ordinances : a four locale study of Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Escondido, California; Farmers Branch, Texas; and Prince William County, Virginia / Jill Esbenshade, Benjamin Wright, Paul Cortopassi, Arthur Reed, and Jerry Flores
  • "Tired of illegals" : immigrant driver's licenses, constituent letters, and shifting restrictionist discourse in California / Hinda Seif.