Model immigrants and undesirable aliens [electronic resource] : the cost of immigration reform in the 1990s / Christina Gerken.
Gerken, Christina.
2013
JV6483 .G47 2013eb
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Model immigrants and undesirable aliens [electronic resource] : the cost of immigration reform in the 1990s / Christina Gerken.
Author
Gerken, Christina.
ISBN
9780816686292 electronic book
9780816674732
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (337 pages)
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JV6483 .G47 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
325.7309/049
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Model immigrants and undesirable aliens : the cost of immigration reform in the 1990s.
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Contents
Introduction: Building a Neoliberal Consensus
1. Exclusionary Acts: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws
2. Family Values and Moral Obligations: The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric
3. Dehumanizing the Undocumented: The Legislative Language of Illegality
4. Manufacturing the Crisis: Encoded Racism in the Daily Press
5. Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures: The Neoliberal Human Interest Story
Conclusion: Legacies of Failed Reform
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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