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Title:

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 : legislating a new America / edited by Gabriel J. Chin, Rose Cuison Villazor.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xv, 387 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Emigration and immigration law--United States.
United States.--Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965.
United States--Government policy.--Government policy.
Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Foreign workers--United States.

Other Authors:

Chin, Gabriel J. (Gabriel Jackson), 1964- editor.
Villazor, Rose Cuison, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 : ushering In an era of racial equality or furthering racial discrimination? -- The 1965 Immigration Act and policy of family unification -- The 1965 Immigration Act and employment-based immigration -- Political and economic issues.
Foreword / Cruz Reynoso -- Introduction / Gabriel J. Chin and Rose Cuison Villazor -- Part I. The Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965: Ushering in an Era of Racial Equality or Furthering Racial Discrimination? -- Were the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965 anti-racist? / Gabriel J. Chin -- African migration to the United States: assigned to the back of the bus /Bill Ong Hing -- The beginning of the end: the Immigration Act of 1965 and the emergence of the modern US-Mexico border state / Kevin R. Johnson -- The last preference: refugees and the 1965 Immigration Act / Brian Soucek -- Part II. The 1965 Immigration Act and Policy of Family Unification -- The 1965 Immigration Act: family unification and non-discrimination fifty years later / Rose Cuison Villazor -- Workers without families: the unintended consequences / Rhacel Salazar Parre©łas and Cerissa Salazar Parre©łas -- Sexual deviants need not apply: LGBTQ oppression in the 1965 Immigration Amendments / Atticus Lee -- Part III. The 1965 Immigration Act and Employment-Based Immigration -- Coming to America: the business of trafficked workers / Valerie Francisco and Robyn Rodriguez -- The impact of 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act on the evolution of temporary guest worker programs, or how the 1965 Act punted on creating a rightful place for Mexican worker migration / Leticia M. Saucedo -- Part IV. Political and Economic Issues -- The 1965 Immigration Act: the demographic and political transformation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans in US border communities / Jeannette Money and Kristina Victor -- Economic performance of immigrants, following the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 / Giovanni Peri.

ISBN:

1107084113
9781107084117

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908250401

LCCN:

2015016875

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)