Using the most current data available, the essays collected here
offer a timely assessment of the impact of the Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which constitutes the most
significant U.S. immigration policy initiative of recent years. The
contributors--all well-known researchers active in analyzing
immigration issues--examine such key questions as: How has the
implementation of IRCA proceeded? What have been its effects so
far? Have the goals of the immigration policy reform been
fulfilled? What potential impact on the U.S. economy can the policy
reforms be expected to have over the next few years? Taken
together, their essays provide a comprehensive picture of the state
of the art in the area of immigration policy research and a first
look at the actual effects of IRCA on undocumented immigration to
America.
Each chapter analyzes a particular aspect or aspects of IRCA.
Francisco Rivera-Batiz begins with an introduction and overview of
U.S. immigration policy reform in the 1980s. Michael Hoefer then
describes in detail the provisions of IRCA and shows how the law
has been implemented to date. In the next essay, Barry Chiswick
analyzes the effectiveness of the employer sanctions mandated by
the bill. Subsequent chapters examine such issues as the critical
role played by undocumented workers in the agricultural sector of
the U.S. southwest, substitution and complementarity between
immigrant and native labor, and the economic implications of
immigration law reform. The contributors are united in the view
that IRCA has worked well in its legalization aspects, reaching a
large portion of the undocumented population. They raise questions
about the employer sanctions provisions, however, and express
doubts as to whether IRCA can be expected to have any major
constraining effect on illegal immigration over the next few
years.
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