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Debating Immigration in the Age of Terrorism, Polarization, and Trump (Hardcover)
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Debating Immigration in the Age of Terrorism, Polarization, and Trump (Hardcover)
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This book offers a broad interdisciplinary approach to the changes
in the U.S. immigration debate before and after 9/11. A nation's
reaction to foreigners has as much to do with sociology as it does
with political science, economics and psychology. Without drawing
on this knowledge, our understanding of the immigration debate
remains mundane, partial, and imperfect. Therefore, our story
accounts for multiple factors, including culture and politics,
power, organizations, social psychological processes, and political
change. Examining this relationship in the contemporary context
requires a lengthy voyage across academic disciplines, a synthesis
of seemingly contradictory assumptions, and a grasp of research
traditions so vast and confusing that an accurate rendering may
seem implausible. And yet, to tell the story of the immigration
debate in the age of terrorism, polarization, and Trump in any
other way is to tell it in part. The immigration debate in the
United States has always been about openness. Two questions in
particular-how open should the door be and what type of immigrant
should walk through it-have characterized policy disputes for well
over a century. In the current debate, expansionists want to see
more legal immigrants in the U.S. and greater tolerance, if not
respect, for immigrants. Restrictionists favor lower levels of
immigration, stronger borders, and tighter law enforcement measures
to stop the stream of 'illegal' migration and alleged crime. The
aim of this book is to describe how these opposing views
materialized in the news media, political rhetoric, and,
ultimately, in policy. Much of our argument rests on the idea that
history matters, that the dominant narrative about immigration is
in constant flux, and that the 'winner' of the immigration debate
is determined by a vector of contextual elements: the joint impact
of current events, enduring traditions, and political-economic
forces. Our approach to the immigration debate avoids deterministic
claims and grand-scale projections. Although we argue with
conviction that a climate of fear played an important role in
shaping the debate, the fear itself and its effects on social
attitudes and public policy were neither inevitable nor necessarily
long lasting.
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