Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States
With the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States at an all-time high and Congressional immigration reform seemingly at a standstill, cities and states across the nation have leapt into the fray, creating a wide range of policies—some more controversial than others—to address illegal immigration within their jurisdictions. These policies, both anti- and pro-immigrant in nature, run the gamut. Some call for the involvement of city police in immigration enforcement, debates over day laborer markets, the establishment of employer sanctions laws, and the implementation of anti-immigrant ordinances. Other policies call for cities and states to declare themselves "sanctuaries" for undocumented immigrants, passing laws to extend locally-funded health care and social services, offer English language training, and improve wages and working conditions.

While these state and local immigration policies continue to receive wide coverage in the popular press, they have received very little attention in the scholarly literature. This volume aims to fill the gap by offering perspectives from political scientists, legal scholars, sociologists, and geographers at the leading edge of this emerging field. Drawing on high profile case studies, the contributors seek to explain the explosion in state and local immigration policy activism, account for the policies that have been considered and passed, and explore the tensions that have emerged within communities and between different levels of government.

This timely entrant into the study of state and local immigration policy also illuminates the significant challenges and opportunities of comprehensive immigration reform, highlights the range of issues at stake, and charts a future research agenda that will more deeply explore the impacts of these policies on immigrant communities.

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Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States
With the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States at an all-time high and Congressional immigration reform seemingly at a standstill, cities and states across the nation have leapt into the fray, creating a wide range of policies—some more controversial than others—to address illegal immigration within their jurisdictions. These policies, both anti- and pro-immigrant in nature, run the gamut. Some call for the involvement of city police in immigration enforcement, debates over day laborer markets, the establishment of employer sanctions laws, and the implementation of anti-immigrant ordinances. Other policies call for cities and states to declare themselves "sanctuaries" for undocumented immigrants, passing laws to extend locally-funded health care and social services, offer English language training, and improve wages and working conditions.

While these state and local immigration policies continue to receive wide coverage in the popular press, they have received very little attention in the scholarly literature. This volume aims to fill the gap by offering perspectives from political scientists, legal scholars, sociologists, and geographers at the leading edge of this emerging field. Drawing on high profile case studies, the contributors seek to explain the explosion in state and local immigration policy activism, account for the policies that have been considered and passed, and explore the tensions that have emerged within communities and between different levels of government.

This timely entrant into the study of state and local immigration policy also illuminates the significant challenges and opportunities of comprehensive immigration reform, highlights the range of issues at stake, and charts a future research agenda that will more deeply explore the impacts of these policies on immigrant communities.

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Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States

Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States

by Monica Varsanyi (Editor)
Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States

Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States

by Monica Varsanyi (Editor)

Overview

With the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States at an all-time high and Congressional immigration reform seemingly at a standstill, cities and states across the nation have leapt into the fray, creating a wide range of policies—some more controversial than others—to address illegal immigration within their jurisdictions. These policies, both anti- and pro-immigrant in nature, run the gamut. Some call for the involvement of city police in immigration enforcement, debates over day laborer markets, the establishment of employer sanctions laws, and the implementation of anti-immigrant ordinances. Other policies call for cities and states to declare themselves "sanctuaries" for undocumented immigrants, passing laws to extend locally-funded health care and social services, offer English language training, and improve wages and working conditions.

While these state and local immigration policies continue to receive wide coverage in the popular press, they have received very little attention in the scholarly literature. This volume aims to fill the gap by offering perspectives from political scientists, legal scholars, sociologists, and geographers at the leading edge of this emerging field. Drawing on high profile case studies, the contributors seek to explain the explosion in state and local immigration policy activism, account for the policies that have been considered and passed, and explore the tensions that have emerged within communities and between different levels of government.

This timely entrant into the study of state and local immigration policy also illuminates the significant challenges and opportunities of comprehensive immigration reform, highlights the range of issues at stake, and charts a future research agenda that will more deeply explore the impacts of these policies on immigrant communities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804770279
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 07/23/2010
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Monica W. Varsanyi is Associate Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and on the Doctoral Faculty in Geography at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Preface Wayne A. Cornelius vii

Acknowledgments ix

1 Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. States and Cities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Monica W. Varsanyi 1

Section 1 National Overview

2 Legal Limits on Immigration Federalism Cristina M. Rodríguez Muzaffar Chishti Kimberly Nortman 31

3 Immigration and Local Governments: Inclusionary Local Policies in the Era of State Rescaling Pablo A. Mitnik Jessica Halpern-Finnerty 51

4 Partisanship, Not Spanish: Explaining Municipal Ordinances Affecting Undocumented Immigrants S. Karthick Ramakrishnan Tom Wong 73

Section 2 From Devolution to the Grassroots

5 Immigration Enforcement by State and Local Police: The Impact on the Enforcers and their Communities Michele Waslin 97

6 The Public Policy Implications of State-Level Worksite Migration Enforcement: The Experiences of Arizona, Mississippi, and Illinois Marc R. Rosenblum Leo B. Gorman 115

7 City Ordinances as "Immigration Policing by Proxy": Local Governments and the Regulation of Undocumented Day Laborers Monica W. Varsanyi 135

Section 3 Tracing the Evolution of Local Policy Activism

8 Neoliberalism, Community Development, and Anti-Immigrant Backlash in Hazleton, Pennsylvania Benjamin Fleury-Steiner Jamie Longazel 157

9 Localized Immigration Policy: The View from Charlotte, North Carolina, A New Immigrant Gateway Owen J. Furuseth Heather A. Smith 173

10 Growing Pains: Local Response to Recent Immigrant Settlement in Suburban Washington, DC Jill H. Wilson Audrey Singer Brooke DeRenzis 193

11 Local Immigration Policy and Global Ambitions in Vancouver and Phoenix Doris Marie Provine 217

Section 4 Exploring Tensions at the Local Scale

12 All Immigration Politics is Local: The Day Labor Ordinance in Vista, California Michael S. Danielson 239

13 The "Law-and-Order" Foundation of Local Ordinances: A Four-Locale Study of Hazleton, PA, Escondido, CA, Farmers Branch, TX, and Prince William County, VA Jill Esbenshade Benjamin Wright Paul Cortopassi Arthur Reed Jerry Flores 255

14 "Tired of Illegals": Immigrant Driver's Licenses, Constituent Letters, and Shifting Restrictionist Discourse in California Hinda Seif 275

Index 296

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