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Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

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Description for Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW; JPA; LNDA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.

During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens examines the changing debates around immigration that preceded and followed the passage of landmark legislation by the U.S. Congress in the mid-1990s, arguing that it represented a new, neoliberal way of thinking and talking about immigration.

Christina Gerken explores the content and the social implications of the deliberations that surrounded the development and passage of ... Read more

Although immigrants were often at the center of congressional debates, politicians constructed an elaborate, abstract terminology that appeared to be unrelated to race or gender. Instead, politicians promoted neoliberal policies as the avenue to a postracist, postsexist world of opportunity for every rational consumer with an entrepreneurial spirit. Still, Gerken concludes that the passage of pathbreaking legislation was characterized by a useful tension between neoliberal assumptions and hidden anxieties about race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816674732
SKU
V9780816674732
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About Christina Gerken
Christina Gerken is assistant professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Indiana University South Bend.

Reviews for Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s
"Christina Gerken has hold of a crucial issue, and her fine book makes clear that we have to confront the neoliberal paradigm to address questions of immigrant rights." —Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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