The Politics of Immigration: Introduction to a Special Issue on US Immigration

In reading this special issue we gain a remarkably insightful glimpse of the important role that immigration policy has played, and will continue to play, in several important aspects of contemporary American life.  After eight years of the Bush Administration, a new immigration policy is poised to...

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Main Author: Jonathon W. Moses
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2009-12-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/7715
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Summary:In reading this special issue we gain a remarkably insightful glimpse of the important role that immigration policy has played, and will continue to play, in several important aspects of contemporary American life.  After eight years of the Bush Administration, a new immigration policy is poised to rise again from the ashes of the infamous Sensenbrenner Bill.  A fresh political and economic context ensures this.  
ISSN:1991-9336