Taking Local Control Immigration Policy Activism in U. S. Cities and States

Name: Taking Local Control Immigration Policy Activism in U. S. Cities and States
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ISBN: 9780804770279

ISBN-10: 0804770271

ISBN-13: 9780804770279

Edition: 2010

Authors: Monica Varsanyi

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Monica Varsanyi is Associate Professor of Political Science in the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.



Preface



Acknowledgments



Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. States and Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives




National Overview



Legal Limits on Immigration Federalism




Immigration and Local Governments: Inclusionary Local Policies in the Era of State Rescaling




Partisanship, Not Spanish: Explaining Municipal Ordinances Affecting Undocumented Immigrants




From Devolution to the Grassroots



Immigration Enforcement by State and Local Police: The Impact on the Enforcers and their Communities




The Public Policy Implications of State-Level Worksite Migration Enforcement: The Experiences of Arizona, Mississippi, and Illinois




City Ordinances as "Immigration Policing by Proxy": Local Governments and the Regulation of Undocumented Day Laborers




Tracing the Evolution of Local Policy Activism



Neoliberalism, Community Development, and Anti-Immigrant Backlash in Hazleton, Pennsylvania




Localized Immigration Policy: The View from Charlotte, North Carolina, A New Immigrant Gateway




Growing Pains: Local Response to Recent Immigrant Settlement in Suburban Washington, DC




Local Immigration Policy and Global Ambitions in Vancouver and Phoenix




Exploring Tensions at the Local Scale



All Immigration Politics is Local: The Day Labor Ordinance in Vista, California




The "Law-and-Order" Foundation of Local Ordinances: A Four-Locale Study of Hazleton, PA, Escondido, CA, Farmers Branch, TX, and Prince William County, VA




"Tired of Illegals": Immigrant Driver's Licenses, Constituent Letters, and Shifting Restrictionist Discourse in California



Index