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... collectively, bring out interpretations and practices that are difficult to anticipate beforehand. '/IJNew Political Science, Volume 25, Number 3, September 2003 Carfax Publishing Taylor & Francis Group Consuming Part-time Nationalism: China as an Immigrant in the Global Society Chih-yu Shih National Taiwan...

...Allan Colbern; S. Karthick Ramakrishnan Abstract California has accomplished a remarkable shift in its historical development on immigrant rights, from pioneering and championing anti-immigrant legislation from the 1850s through the 1990s, to passing robust pro-immigrant rights policies in the last...

...Marcela García-Castañon Abstract This article examines the role of spousal political socialization among Mexican immigrants in the United States. Political socialization literature has often dismissed the socializing influences of spouses or significant others due to a focus on native born...

... campaigns provide voting rights only to authorized immigrants, other campaigns extend voting rights to all noncitizens regardless of their status. Some efforts have been led by immigrant rights organizations and other campaigns arose at the initiative of elected officials. Some measures have been passed...

...: Citizenship in Immigrant America Ron Hayduk and Marcela Garcia-Castanon f) Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA Neoliberal globalization's promise of economic growth - along with war, famine, environmental disasters, and other social dislocating events - has...

.... In addressing this gap, we explore anti-immigrant voting rights campaigns as they relate to broader rightwing mobilization and voter suppression efforts. We draw upon the literature on Gramsci’s conception of hegemony to document and analyze efforts to use state power to change constitutions and election laws...

... an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Of those unable to enter successfully, 3,000 have died in the last five years. The unsolved murders of almost 400 young maquiladora workers in the border cities of Juarez and Chihuahua are considered by some to be directly linked...

... the politics of recent campaigns that successfully reestablished noncitizen voting, that are currently underway, and other campaigns that failed. The paper argues that an expansion of immigrant voting rights could boost possibilities for working-class electoral coalitions and progressive politics. * I...

... Political Science 1982 Belden Fields The Battle of SONACOTRA: A Study of an Immigrant Worker Struggle in France* INTRODUCTION In the late 1960's and early 1970's a number of socialist writers and intellectuals saw a strong revolutionary potential within the ranks of Third World immigrant workers who had...

.... It examines the role of Latino immigrants as operatives in the industry, and the conditions under which they must work. The fundamental problem lies in the lack of political power of these workers, who must labor under an apartheid-like system that denies them basic civil rights. Even recent signs of growing...

.... By engaging immigrants, PB aims to affirm and elevate their voices, help develop their civic capacities, and promote their political participation and community empowerment. During the past four years, participation by immigrants (foreign-born residents) in New York City’s PB process (PBNYC) has steadily...

...Anatoli Ignatov Border Walls Gone Green: Nature and Anti-Immigrant Politics in America , by John Hultgren , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 , 248 pp., $27.00 (paperback), $94.50 (cloth), ISBN 9780816694983 (paperback), ISBN 9780816694976 (cloth) © 2017...

... and administration of immigration law(s). Drawing on examples from migration politics in the Australian context, pertaining to the ways in which HIV and tuberculosis are figured, it illustrates how the proximity of the supposedly “infectious” outsider, their perceived literal and moral “contagiousness...

...Alessandra Buonfino Abstract Immigration has always been at the heart of controversy in the history of human societies and, most recently, in the history of nation-states. The aim of this article is, first, to help get to the heart of the “problem” of mass migration in Europe by investigating how...

... in the creation of Mexican illegality despite time of residence in the United States, ties to US citizens, or birthright citizenship. While scholars have documented immigration laws that have expatriated US citizen women (mainly of European racial backgrounds), policies that allowed for the deportation of “public...

...Valerie Francisco-Menchavez; Jessa Delos Reyes; Tiffany Mendoza; Stephanie Ancheta; Katrina Liwanag Abstract Filipino immigrants and Filipino-serving community-based organizations (CBOs) in San Francisco work to meet community members’ immediate needs. At the same time, it activates political...

...Katrine Fangen; Mari Vaage Abstract In this article, we explore Norwegian Progress Party politicians’ change of their rhetoric of immigration after the party for the first time became part of a coalition government in 2013. Equal to other right-wing populist parties in Europe, immigration has been...

...David Watkins Abstract Political theorists of immigration who are critical of restrictive immigration policies generally rely on abstract, universal, cosmopolitan principles, while defenders of such restrictions focus on concrete identities. This status quo overlooks the ways attention to concrete...

...Barbara Franz Abstract This article argues that if the proponents of immigration reform have it their way, the proposed guest worker program will transform American citizenship from an institution based on civic membership to one based on residence rights and socio-economic status. American...

... and have spread fear about immigration, immigrants, and integration. It argues that while the populist right-wing Progress Party has adopted immigration and integration as its main cause and has gained support because of it, the Progress Party alone cannot be blamed for the widespread xenophobia in Norway...