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Title:

Taking local control : immigration policy activism in U.S. cities and states / Monica W. Varsanyi, editor.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

viii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--Government policy.--Government policy.
Emigration and immigration law--United States.
Local government--United States.
State governments--United States.

Other Authors:

Varsanyi, Monica, 1971-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Immigration policy activism in U.S. states and cities: interdisciplinary perspectives / Monica W. Varsanyi -- Legal limits on immigration federalism / Cristina M. Rodrøguez, Muzaffar Chishti, and Kimberly Nortman -- Immigration and local governments: inclusionary local policies in the era of state rescaling / Pablo A. Mitnik and Jessica Halpern-Finnerty -- Partisanship, not Spanish: explaining municipal ordinances affecting undocumented immigrants / S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Tom Wong -- Immigration enforcement by state and local police: the impact on the enforcers and their communities / Michele Waslin -- The public policy implications of state-level worksite migration enforcement: the experiences of Arizona, Mississippi, and Illinois / Marc Rosenblum and Leo Gorman -- City ordinances as "immigration policing by proxy": local governments and the regulation of undocumented day laborers / Monica W. Varsanyi -- Neoliberalism, community development, and anti-immigrant backlash in Hazleton, Pennsylvania / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Jamie Longazel -- Localized immigration policy: the view from a Charlotte, North Carolina, a new immigrant gateway / Owen Furuseth and Heather Smith -- Growing pains: local response to recent immigrant settlement in suburban Washington DC / Jill H. Wilson, Audrey Singer, and Brooke DeRenzis -- Local immigration policy and global ambitions in Vancouver and Phoenix / Doris Marie Provine -- All immigration politics is local: the day labor ordinance in Vista, California / Michael S. Danielson -- The "law and order" foundation of local ordinances: a four locale study of Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Escondido, California; Farmers Branch, Texas; and Prince William County, Virginia / Jill Esbenshade, Benjamin Wright, Paul Cortopassi, Arthur Reed, and Jerry Flores -- "Tired of illegals": immigrant driver's licenses, constituent letters, and shifting restrictionist discourse in California / Hinda Seif.

ISBN:

0804770271 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804770279 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804770263 (casebound : alk. paper)
9780804770262 (casebound : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)614988460

LCCN:

2010018827

Locations:

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

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)