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"Christina Gerken has hold of a crucial issue, and her fine book makes clear that we have to confront the neoliberal paradigm to address questions of immigrant rights." —Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


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Introduction: Building a Neoliberal Consensus1. Exclusionary Acts: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws2. Family Values and Moral Obligations: The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric3. Dehumanizing the Undocumented: The Legislative Language of Illegality4. Manufacturing the Crisis: Encoded Racism in the Daily Press5. Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures: The Neoliberal Human Interest StoryConclusion: Legacies of Failed Reform

AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 10/10/2013
      ISBN13: 9780816674732, 978-0816674732
      ISBN10: 0816674736
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      Civics and citizenship Migration, immigration and emigration

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Christina Gerken has hold of a crucial issue, and her fine book makes clear that we have to confront the neoliberal paradigm to address questions of immigrant rights." —Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee


      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Introduction: Building a Neoliberal Consensus1. Exclusionary Acts: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws2. Family Values and Moral Obligations: The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric3. Dehumanizing the Undocumented: The Legislative Language of Illegality4. Manufacturing the Crisis: Encoded Racism in the Daily Press5. Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures: The Neoliberal Human Interest StoryConclusion: Legacies of Failed Reform

      AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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