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The Republican party and immigration politics from Proposition 187 to George W. Bush
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- Summary
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This book examines the 1990s backlash against illegal immigrants. Wroe explains why many Americans turned against immigration, looking at the origins of California's Proposition 187 and its wider p...
This book examines the 1990s backlash against illegal immigrants. Wroe explains why many Americans turned against immigration, looking at the origins of California's Proposition 187 and its wider political implications.
Details
- Creator
- Andrew Wroe
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1281976512, 9786611976514, 0230611087, 1349370118, 0230600530
- OCLC
- ocn314769817
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references ([231]-277) and index.
- English
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Learning from History; 3 The Early Politicization of the Illegal-Immigration Issue; 4 The Increasing Salience of Illegal Immigration and the Qualification of Proposition 187; 5 The Campaign; 6 The Judicial Death of Proposition 187; 7 The Legislative Revival of Proposition 187; 8 Immigration Politics at Century's End; 9 Immigration Politics in a New Century; Appendix A: Opinion Poll Details; Appendix B: Proposition 187: Text of Proposed Law; Appendix C: Additional Tables; Notes; Bibliography; Index