Taking local control : immigration policy activism in U.S. cities and states
Taking local control : immigration policy activism in U.S. cities and states
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采取地方控制：美国城市和州的移民政策激进主义
DOI：
10.5860/choice.48-3526
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Monica W. Varsanyi
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作者：
Monica W. Varsanyi
随着美国无证移民人数达到历史最高水平，国会移民改革似乎陷入停滞，全国各地的城市和州都加入了这场争论，制定了一系列广泛的政策-有些比其他更具争议性-以解决其管辖范围内的非法移民问题。这些政策，既有反移民的，也有支持移民的，无所不包。一些人呼吁城市警察参与移民执法，对日工市场的辩论，建立雇主制裁法，以及实施反移民法令。其他政策要求城市和州宣布自己为无证移民的“避难所”，通过法律扩大当地资助的医疗保健和社会服务，提供英语培训，并改善工资和工作条件。虽然这些州和地方的移民政策继续在大众媒体上得到广泛报道，但它们在学术文献中很少受到关注。这卷旨在填补差距提供政治学家，法律的学者，社会学家和地理学家在这一新兴领域的前沿的观点。借鉴高调的案例研究，贡献者试图解释州和地方移民政策激进主义的爆炸，占已被考虑和通过的政策，并探讨社区内和不同级别的政府之间出现的紧张局势。这及时进入国家和地方移民政策的研究也照亮了重大的挑战和全面的移民改革的机遇，突出了一系列问题的利害关系，并绘制了未来的研究议程，将更深入地探讨这些政策对移民社区的影响。
With the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States at an all-time high and Congressional immigration reform seemingly at a standstill, cities and states across the nation have leapt into the fray, creating a wide range of policies-some more controversial than others-to address illegal immigration within their jurisdictions. These policies, both anti- and pro-immigrant in nature, run the gamut. Some call for the involvement of city police in immigration enforcement, debates over day laborer markets, the establishment of employer sanctions laws, and the implementation of anti-immigrant ordinances. Other policies call for cities and states to declare themselves "sanctuaries" for undocumented immigrants, passing laws to extend locally-funded health care and social services, offer English language training, and improve wages and working conditions. While these state and local immigration policies continue to receive wide coverage in the popular press, they have received very little attention in the scholarly literature. This volume aims to fill the gap by offering perspectives from political scientists, legal scholars, sociologists, and geographers at the leading edge of this emerging field. Drawing on high profile case studies, the contributors seek to explain the explosion in state and local immigration policy activism, account for the policies that have been considered and passed, and explore the tensions that have emerged within communities and between different levels of government. This timely entrant into the study of state and local immigration policy also illuminates the significant challenges and opportunities of comprehensive immigration reform, highlights the range of issues at stake, and charts a future research agenda that will more deeply explore the impacts of these policies on immigrant communities.