| Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens The Cost of Immigration Reform in The 1990s | | | Author:
| Gerken, Christina | | ISBN: | 978-0-8166-7473-2 | | Publication Date: | Oct 2013 | | Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
| | Book Format: | Paperback | | List Price: | USD $27.50 | Book Description:
|
Christina Gerken examines the changing debates around immigration that surrounded the passage of landmark legislation by Congress in the mid-1990s, arguing that it represented a new, neoliberal way of thinking and talking about immigration. She 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. Christina Gerken examines the changing debates around immigration that surrounded the passage of landmark legislation by Congress in the mid-1990s, arguing that it represented a new, neoliberal way of thinking and talking about immigration. She 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. | |