Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

Title

Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

Role

Editor: Rachel Bluff

Contributing Author: Victor C. Romero

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Victor C. Romero is a contributing author: "Who Should Manage Immigration - Congress or the States? An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law." Chapter 12, page 286.

Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.

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ISBN

9780814799918

Publication Date

2008

Publisher

New York University Press

City

New York

Keywords

Immigration, constitutional law

Disciplines

Constitutional Law | Immigration Law

Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

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