Laura Valeria Gonzalez-Murphy

Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico

Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus

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Produktbeschreibung

The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. This book offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies in general and migration policy in particular.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415643832
• ISBN-10: 041564383X
• Artikelnr.: 36622080

Autorenporträt

Laura Valeria González-Murphy is an Assistant Research Professor at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany (SUNY).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Background. Introduction: Mexico, a Country of Immigration? 1. Who
Are Mexico's Immigrants? 2. Mexico's Immigration Policy in Perspective:
Initiating a "Friendly Gates" Policy. Part II: Civil Society Flourishes.
3. Civil Society From the Mexican Perspective. 4. The State-Civil Society
Nexus on Immigration Policy. 5. Civil Society's Key Achievement: The New
Migration Law of 2011. Part III: Comparison and Final Reflections. 6.
Immigration and Civil Society in Spain and Italy: A Comparison With Mexico.
7. Conclusion and Final Remarks.