| Description |
xiii, 338 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The children -- Undocumented or illegal? -- What state and local role? -- Americans in waiting? -- Deciding who enforces -- Building communities -- Legalization and the rule of law -- Finding answers. |
| Summary |
"In 2006, Hiroshi Motomura published Americans in Waiting, an authoritative legal history of how immigrants to America became citizens. That book focused on how the legal pathways to citizenship evolved over time. In Immigration Outside the Law, he turns his attention to the more fraught issue of illegal immigration to the United States, which has become one of the most controversial political and social issues in contemporary America. The book revolves around two basic questions. First, what explains today's intense disagreements about immigration outside the law? And second, what should we as a nation do about it? After beginning the book with a discussion of a landmark Supreme Court case--Plyler v. Doe (1982), which held that children have a constitutional right to attend public elementary and secondary schools even if they are in the United States unlawfully--he offers a reasoned and a careful discussion of what illegal immigration actually is and how the state (federal, state, and local) deal with it. He then looks at the ways in which unauthorized immigrants are becoming part of American society. In the final section of the book, Motomura focuses on durable and politically viable solutions to the problem in three public policy areas: international economic development, domestic economic policy, and educational policy"-- Provided by publisher |
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In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children to get the education that state law would have denied. The Court established a child's constitutional right to attend public elementary and secondary schools, regardless of immigration status. With Plyler, three questions emerged that have remained central to the national conversation about immigration outside the law: What does it mean to be in the country unlawfully? What is the role of state and local governments in dealing with unauthorized migration? Are unauthorized migrants "Americans in waiting?" |
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Undocumented Immigrants. (DNLM)D000069756
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Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
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Noncitizens. (OCoLC)fst00967153
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
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Emigration and immigration law. (OCoLC)fst00908736
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Undocumented immigration -- United States.
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Noncitizens -- United States.
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LAW -- Emigration & Immigration.
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Illegal immigration -- United States.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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| ISBN |
0199768439 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780199768431 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9780190686130 (paperback) |
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0190686138 (paperback) |
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