Dream chasers : immigration and the American backlash

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Label

Dream chasers : immigration and the American backlash

Title remainder

immigration and the American backlash

Statement of responsibility

John Tirman

Creator

• Tirman, John

Subject

• Emigration and immigration
• Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
• Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion
• Förenta staterna
• Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
• Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
• Hispanos
• Immigrants -- Public opinion
• Immigrants -- Social conditions
• Immigrants -- United States -- Public opinion
• Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
• Invandrare
• Invandringspolitik
• Latin America
• Allmänna opinionen
• Latin Americans -- Social conditions
• Latin Americans -- United States -- Social conditions
• Latinamerika
• Migration
• Migrationspolitik
• Public opinion
• Public opinion -- United States
• Sociala förhållanden
• USA
• United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Government policy
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Public opinion
• Latin America -- Emigration and immigration

Language

eng

Summary

"Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing media stir up panic over 'anchor babies, ' job stealing, welfare dependence, bilingualism, al-Qaeda terrorists disguised as Latinos, even a conspiracy by Latinos to 'retake' the Southwest. State and local governments have passed more than 300 laws that attempt to restrict undocumented immigrants' access to hospitals, schools, food stamps, and driver's licenses. Federal immigration authorities stage factory raids that result in arrests, deportations, and broken families--and leave owners scrambling to fill suddenly open jobs. The DREAM Act, which would grant permanent residency to high school graduates brought here as minors, is described as 'amnesty.' And yet polls show that a majority of Americans support some kind of path to citizenship for those here illegally. What is going on? In this book, John Tirman shows how the resistance to immigration in America is more cultural than political. Although cloaked in language about jobs and secure borders, the cultural resistance to immigration expresses a fear that immigrants are changing the dominant white, Protestant, 'real American' culture. Tirman describes the "raid mentality" of our response to immigration, which seeks violent solutions for a social phenomenon. He considers the culture clash over Chicano ethnic studies in Tucson, examines the consequences of an immigration raid in New Bedford, and explores the civil rights activism of young "Dreamers." The current "round them up, deport them, militarize the border" approach, Tirman shows, solves nothing."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

304.8/73

Index

index present

LC call number

JV6483

LC item number

.T56 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography