This is the best comprehensive review of immigration-related legislation and executive orders in Argentina for the post-1983 period. It reflects extensive research in legislative records, government decrees, and media sources. An appendix helpfully lists all legislation analyzed. A second appendix addresses the author's methodology for examining print media. A third includes a questionnaire issued in 2003–4 to members of Congress and a number of policymakers.
Julia Albarracín argues that “empirical works that do not consider the complex nature of immigrants and immigration policies are doomed to have limited explanatory power” (p. 8). For this reason, Albarracín continues, “this book contemplates how economic, cultural, and international factors intersect state decision-making processes in shaping immigration policies” (p. 8). But this statement is not sufficiently clear: Which empirical works are doomed? What complexities? Nor does Albarracín tie economic, cultural, and international factors to decision-making processes in a sustained, compelling analysis. The author comments...
