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The Walls Within (Coleman, Sarah R.)
The Walls Within
Untertitel The Politics of Immigration in Modern America
Autor Coleman, Sarah R.
Verlag University Presses
Co-Verlag Princeton University Press (Imprint/Brand)
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
Seiten 272 S.
Artikelnummer 34643068
ISBN 978-0-691-18028-1
Reihe Politics and Society in Modern America
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Zusammenfassung
A history of the battles over US immigrants' rights since 1965-and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national quotas in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach. But subsequent demographic shifts resulted in a "The virtue of Coleman's book is its thick descriptive account of the to-and-fro struggle between liberals and conservatives and her appreciation of the variety of contingent realities that made outcomes difficult to predict."---Peter Kivisto, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Sarah R. Coleman is assistant professor of history at Texas State University. Twitter @sarahrcoleman6