... and Nationality Act of 1965 can be traced to the pluralistic brand of Americanism advocated by liberals during the Cold War era. The chapter examines the intellectual underpinnings of the political and legislative discourse on immigration reform in the twenty years that followed World War II, paying particular...

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...This chapter discusses the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which criminalized the act of hiring people without employment authorization and implemented a system of “employer sanctions” that would punish employers who knowingly hired illegal workers through a series of inspections...

... the political significance of blurring the color line through desegregation policies and immigration reform. It has argued that the extension of equal rights to Asian Americans not only affirmed the ability of U.S. democracy to safeguard the rights of all but also demonstrated the nation's goodwill toward all...

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...In the spring of 2006, millions of immigrants and their allies participated in hundreds of marches across the United States. Broad coalitions that had convened to support comprehensive immigration reform played important roles in mobilizing support for the demonstrations as well as coordinating...

...This chapter considers the developments of the 1980s for the Jamaican guestworkers. The decade brought guestworkers immigration reform legislation known as the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), which promised permanent legal status for all “alien farmworkers.” It also brought a huge $51...

... percent of U.S. labor force but are heavily concentrated into two types of sectors: 25 percent are in services, and 29 percent are involved in production and transportation occupations. Two major policy changes—the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act...

...Chapter 6 analyzes Italian and Jewish reform advocates’ final efforts to abolish the national origins quota system but also sheds light on the constraints they faced in seeking reform. After pushing for immigration reform for over forty years, many of them, sensing that the window for reform...

...The conclusion focuses on the long-term ramifications of immigration reform activists’ limitations in 1965. Bringing the history of immigration reform to the present, the conclusion also reflects on the similarities and differences between immigration reform activists discussed in the book...

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... reform. It considers immigration reform politics under Obama's two most immediate predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. These presidents ultimately made markedly different strategic choices on this combustible issue, with contrasting long-term implications. The article concludes by reviewing...

...This chapter discusses how Cold War geopolitical exigencies provided long-time immigration reform advocates like Italian Americans with a narrow window of opportunity to challenge the draconian immigration system in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924 and mobilize...

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.... In addition, a group of Silicon Valley executives, including Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, launched FWD.us, a sophisticated media campaign that uses cutting-edge online organizing tools to build support for comprehensive immigration reform, with a primary goal of increasing the number of visas available...

...This chapter follows the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR), which organized in December 2005 to “legalize the Irish,” maintaining that calls for a zero tolerance approach to immigration at both the national and the state level encouraged this organization to adopt a race-conscious...

... across the country, and that they adversely affect the U.S. economy and domestic workers. It also proposes comprehensive immigration reform that addresses three important groups of immigrants: young adults seeking to attain a college education but often denied because of their “illegal” status, the rest...

...This chapter examines different views on how to resolve the so-called immigration crisis in the United States and offers a pragmatic and economically sound proposal for immigration reform, with particular emphasis on undocumented immigration. It argues that we need to end the hostile rhetoric aimed...