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“A truly significant contribution to the field, especially the chapters that offer historically grounded approaches to policies and events with great contemporary importance and interest. Very few other books accomplish that feat.”--Charlotte Brooks, author of American Exodus: Second Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Whose America? Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari

  1. Mass Elimination: Removing Immigrants in the Era of Mass Incarceration Elliot Young
  2. “Families Belong Together”: Immigration Policy as Legal Violence Leisy J. Abrego
  3. “Give Me Your Best and Brightest”: Chasing STEM Workers since World War II Monique Laney
  4. Legislating Diversity in the Immigration Act of 1990 Carly Goodman
  5. In the Name of National Security: Ideological Exclusion from the Cold War to the War on Terror Julia Rose Kraut
  6. “Uncle Sam Wants You Dead or Deported”: How Fears of Sexuality, Gender, and Race Crafted U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 Julio Capó Jr.
  7. “Human Rights for All”: The Recent History of Immigration and Human Rights in the United States Carl Bon Tempo
  8. Sanctuary Is Justice: Resilience and Ingenuity in the Sanctuary Movement since 1986 Carl Lindskoog
  9. Misreading History: The United States Supreme Court and the Thwarting of the U.S. Asylum System since the 1980s Yael Schacher
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    Publisher: University of Illinois Press
    Publication Date: 18/07/2023
    ISBN13: 9780252087271, 978-0252087271
    ISBN10: 0252087275
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    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Trade Review
    “A truly significant contribution to the field, especially the chapters that offer historically grounded approaches to policies and events with great contemporary importance and interest. Very few other books accomplish that feat.”--Charlotte Brooks, author of American Exodus: Second Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901–1949

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments

    Introduction: Whose America? Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari

    1. Mass Elimination: Removing Immigrants in the Era of Mass Incarceration Elliot Young
    2. “Families Belong Together”: Immigration Policy as Legal Violence Leisy J. Abrego
    3. “Give Me Your Best and Brightest”: Chasing STEM Workers since World War II Monique Laney
    4. Legislating Diversity in the Immigration Act of 1990 Carly Goodman
    5. In the Name of National Security: Ideological Exclusion from the Cold War to the War on Terror Julia Rose Kraut
    6. “Uncle Sam Wants You Dead or Deported”: How Fears of Sexuality, Gender, and Race Crafted U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980 Julio Capó Jr.
    7. “Human Rights for All”: The Recent History of Immigration and Human Rights in the United States Carl Bon Tempo
    8. Sanctuary Is Justice: Resilience and Ingenuity in the Sanctuary Movement since 1986 Carl Lindskoog
    9. Misreading History: The United States Supreme Court and the Thwarting of the U.S. Asylum System since the 1980s Yael Schacher
    Contributors

    Index

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