Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.
First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.
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Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.
First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.
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Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

by Ron Hayduk
Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S.

by Ron Hayduk

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First published in 2006. Voting is for citizens only, right? Not exactly. It is not widely known that immigrants, or noncitizens, currently vote in local elections in over a half dozen cities and towns in the U.S.; nor that campaigns to expand the franchise to noncitizens have been launched in at least a dozen other jurisdictions from coast to coast over the past decade. These practices have their roots in another little-known fact: for most of the country's history - from the founding until the 1920s - noncitizens voted in forty states and federal territories in local, state, and even federal elections, and also held.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415950725
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/13/2006
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ron Hayduk teaches political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. He has written about political participation, elections, social movements, immigration, and race. Hayduk has worked in government, consulted to several policy organizations and is co-founder of The Immigrant Voting Project (www.immigrantvoting.org).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

I. Introduction


II. Rise and Fall of Immigrant Voting in U.S. History: 1776 to 1926


III. The Return of Immigrant Voting: Demographic Change and Political Mobilization


IV. The Case For Immigrant Voting Rights


V. Contemporary Immigrant Voting: Maryland, New York, and Chicago


VI. Campaigns to Restore Immigrant Voting Rights: California, New York, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts


VII. The Future of Immigrant Voting


Works Cited

Notes

Index
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