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Post-Racial Proxy Battles Over Immigration, Mary D. Fan
Post-Racial Proxy Battles Over Immigration, Mary D. Fan
Chapters in Books
Amid economic and political turmoil, anti-immigrant legislation has flared again among a handful of fiercely determined states. To justify the intrusion into national immigration enforcement, the dissident states invoke imagery of invading hordes of “illegals”—though the unauthorized population actually fell by nearly two-thirds, decreasing by about a million people, between 2007 and 2009 as the recession reduced the lure of jobs.
Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070—recently invalidated in part by the U.S. Supreme Court in Arizona v. United States—led the charge. By preelection-year summer 2011, several states enacted laws patterned after Arizona’s controversial Senate Bill 1070, including Alabama’s even more aggressive …
Illegal Aliens: Their Employment And Employers, Barry R. Chiswick
Illegal Aliens: Their Employment And Employers, Barry R. Chiswick
Upjohn Press
This study develops and tests hypotheses about the characteristics of the employment of illegal aliens, including wages, investments in job training, job mobility, and workplace and employer characteristics.