Introduction: Debating immigration reform -- Membership as reciprocity -- Earned citizenship through military service -- Keeping faith with immigrant military personnel and veterans -- Recognizing the civic value of parenting a new generation -- Caring as a civic service -- Moving past "Americanization" towards earned citizenship -- Conclusion: Prospects for earned citizenship in a new restrictionist era.
Summary:
"Earned Citizenship is a normative intervention in migration and citizenship studies that advances the proposition that unauthorized immigrant residents should be able to earn legalization and a pathway to citizenship through restorative service to citizens as caregivers, in communities, and the military"-- Provided by publisher.
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