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The most comprehensive collection of essays on undocumented immigration to date, covering issues not generally found anywhere else on the subject. Three fascinating volumes feature the latest research from the country's top immigration scholars.
In the United States, the crisis of undocumented immigrants draws strong opinions from both sides of the debate. For those who immigrate, concerns over safety, incorporation, and fair treatment arise upon arrival. For others, the perceived economic, political, and cultural impact of newcomers can feel threatening. In this informative three-volume set, top immigration scholars explain perspectives from every angle, examining facts and seeking solutions to counter the controversies often brought on by the current state of undocumented immigrant affairs.
Immigration expert and set editor Lois Lorentzen leads a stellar team of contributors, laying out history, theories, and legislation in the first book; human rights, sexuality, and health in the second; and economics, politics, and morality in the final volume. From family separation, to human trafficking, to notions of citizenship, this provocative study captures the human costs associated with this type of immigration in the United States, questions policies intended to protect the "American way of life," and offers strategies for easing tensions between immigrants and natural-born citizens in everyday life.
Contents
Introduction
Lois Ann Lorentzen
1 Economic Impact of Immigrants, Migrants, and Illegality
Aviva Chomsky
2 Undocumented Immigrant Workers and the Labor Movement
Ruth Milkman
3 An Inconvenient Persistence: Agribusiness and Awkward Workers in the United States and California
Juan Vicente Palerm
4 "That Could Be You": Mexicana Elder-Care Workers, Empathy, and Remoralization
María de la Luz Ibarra
5 The Informality of Day Labor Work: Challenges and Approaches to Addressing Working Conditions of Day Laborers
Victor Narro and Janna Shadduck-Hernández
6 Undocumented Immigrants and Self-Employment in the Informal Economy
Steven J. Gold
7 Rethinking Remittances for Undocumented Immigrants in the United States
Jeffrey H. Cohen
8 Activism and Advocacy
Shannon Gleeson
9 Nongovernmental Organizations, Civil Society, and Undocumented Migrants
Lane Van Ham
10 Immigrant Sanctuary: Historical and Contemporary Movements
Stephen Nathan Haymes and María Vidal de Haymes
11 The Rise of Nativism
T. Elizabeth Durden and Robin Dale Jacobson
12 "To Persevere in Our Struggles": Religion among Unauthorized Latino/a Immigrants in the United States
Marie T. Friedmann Marquardt and Manuel A. Vásquez
13 Redressing the Shame of U.S. Immigration Laws and Enforcement Policies
Bill Ong Hing
Index
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