Pratheepan Gulasekaram, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan

The New Immigration Federalism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an empirical analysis of recent pro- and anti-immigration lawmaking at state and local levels in the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781107111967
• ISBN-10: 110711196X
• Artikelnr.: 42697696

Autorenporträt

Pratheepan Gulasekaram is Associate Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He has published widely on immigration federalism and the constitutional rights of noncitizens both in popular media platforms and prominent legal journals including the New York University Law Review. Before entering academia, Gulasekaram clerked for the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. He earned his BA at Brown University and his JD at Stanford Law School.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Setting the stage for the new immigration federalism
3. Rise of restrictive legislation and demographic arguments of 'vital necessity'
4. A political theory of immigration federalism: the polarized change model and restrictive issue entrepreneurs
5. A shifting tide in 2012: pro-integration activists gain the upper hand
6. Implications for legal theory on federalism and immigration law
7. Immigration federalism is here to stay
Appendix A: statistical analysis of restrictive local ordinances
Appendix B: statistical analysis of restrictive state laws
Appendix C: statistical analysis of state immigrant integration laws.