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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783784303321

Autore

Wong Carolyn <1952->

Titolo

Lobbying for inclusion [[electronic resource] ] : rights politics and the making of immigration policy / / Carolyn Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8047-6775-0

1-4294-1598-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

325.73

Soggetti

Pressure groups - United States

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Interest-group goals -- Hart-Cellar Act -- Post-Bracero dilemmas -- Legal and illegal immigration reform -- Revisiting reform in a Republican Congress -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The 1965 passage of immigration reform, which removed racial quotas, generated a mass immigration to the United States from Latin America and Asia. This wave of immigration began in the immediate aftermath of the civil rights era and it led to the formation of a new set of ethnic advocacy groups in American politics.