Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and the National Identity Hardcover - 1996 - 1st Edition
by Keith Fitzgerald
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This innovative work provides both a historical account of the crazy-quilt of legislation dealing with immigration that Congress has passed over the years and a theoretical explanation, building on the "new institutionalism", of how these laws came to be passed. The author shows why immigration is a uniquely revealing policy arena in which a polity chooses what it will be, a collective decision that shapes a nation's identity and defines itself. The book focuses on three aspects of immigration policy: the regulation of admission to the United States for permanent residency, the regulation of admission of people fleeing political repression, and the efforts to cope with the flow of unsanctioned migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border. It identifies the most puzzling features of contemporary immigration policy, asking, Where do these policies come from? Why do they have their special characteristics? The author seeks the answers in modern theories of public policy formation, especially the currently popular new institutionalism. He offers an enhanced version of this approach, which he calls "improvisational institutionalism", and applies it to the paradoxes of immigration policy.
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- Title Face of the Nation: Immigration, the State, and the National Identity
- Author Keith Fitzgerald
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford CA
- Date 1996-04-01
- ISBN 9780804724852 / 0804724857
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.27 x 1.04 in (23.60 x 15.93 x 2.64 cm)
- Reading level 1310
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95023066
- Dewey Decimal Code 325.73
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