Hayes analyzes the situation of undocumented immigrants in the
U.S. and what happens to them in the aftermath of implementation of
two key provisions of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act
(IRCA) legalization and employer sanctions. Referred to by
legislators as a generous and compassionate bill that would
legalize much of the undocumented population in our midst, it
resulted instead in placing a highly vulnerable silent subclass in
deeper jeopardy. Hayes traces the history of undocumented
immigration, Congressional debate and implementation of IRCA and
provides direct access to the faces of the undocumented through
original empirical research on the social and economic impact of
IRCA on specific groups of undocumented Haitian, Irish, and
Salvadoran immigrants.
The general theme is America's ambivalence towards its historic
lifeline, new immigrants whether legal or undocumented, and how the
two central provisions of IRCA uniquely embodied within the same
piece of legislation contradictory and ambivalent attitudes toward
immigrants which became the seeds of its implementation
difficulties. Hayes looks at the issue of undocumented immigration
from a legislative, policy, human rights, and implementation
perspective, but she also points beyond national strategies to push
factors emanating from the home countries of the undocumented and
makes the case that undocumented immigration is a global social
problem that needs global solutions. The book is of particular
interest to policy makers, scholars, and other researchers and
students involved with social policy and welfare, immigration law,
and ethnic studies.
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