Brokered Boundaries: Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times

by Magaly Sanchez R, Douglas S. Massey, Magaly Sánchez R.

Book Overview

Anti-immigrant sentiment reached a fever pitch after 9/11, but its origins go back much further. Public rhetoric aimed at exposing a so-called invasion of Latino immigrants has been gaining ground for more than three decades--and fueling increasingly restrictive federal immigration policy. Accompanied by a flagging U.S. economy--record-level joblessness, bankruptcy, and income inequality--as well as waning consumer confidence, these conditions signaled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871545799
• ISBN13: 9780871545794
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"