Arizona firestorm : global immigration realities, national media, and provincial politics / / edited by Otto Santa Ana and Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808343703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-63888-6; 1-4422-1417-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Santa AnaOtto <1954->; González de BustamanteCeleste <1965->
• Disciplina: 325.791
• Soggetti: Immigrants - Government policy - Arizona; Arizona Emigration and immigration Government policy; Arizona Politics and government 1951-; Arizona Emigration and immigration Press coverage; United States Emigration and immigration Press coverage
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. BACKGROUND; 1. Arizona's Provincial Responses to its Global Immigration Challenges: Introduction to Arizona Firestorm; 2. Arizona and the Making of a State of Exclusion, 1912-2012; 3. A Chronology of Exclusion in Arizona and the United States, 1880-2011; 4. The Economic Impact of Immigrants in Arizona; Part II. FIRESTORM; 5. Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Politics through Immigration Law; 6. Assault on Ethnic Studies; 7. From Gonzales to Flores: A Return to the "Mexican Room"?; 8. Illegal Accents: Qualifications, Discrimination, and Distraction in Arizona's Monitoring of Teachers9. An Immigration Crisis in a Nation of Immigrants: Why Amending the Fourteenth Amendment Won't Solve Our Problems; Part III. MASS MEDIA ROLES; 10. National Perspectives on State Turmoil: Characteristics of Elite U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Arizona SB 1070; 11. Not Business as Usual. Spanish-Language Television Coverage of Arizona's Immigration Law, April-May 2010; 12. ; Between Heroes and Victims: Mexican Newspaper Narrative Framing of Migration; Part IV. PROSPECTS; 13. Immigration in the Age of Global Vertigo14. Can America Learn to Think Globally? We Don't at Our Own Risk; Index; About the Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: Arizona Firestorm brings together well respected experts from across the political spectrum to examine and contextualize the political, economic, historical, and legal issues prompted by this and other anti-Latino and anti-immigrant legislation and state actions. It also addresses the media's role in shaping immigration discourse in Arizona and elsewhere.