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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827407603321

Autore

Motomura Hiroshi <1953->

Titolo

Immigration outside the law / / Hiroshi Motomura

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-938531-9

0-19-938530-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 pages)

Classificazione

LAW032000HIS054000POL003000

Disciplina

364.1/370973

Soggetti

Noncitizens - United States

Emigration and immigration law - United States

Illegal immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Immigration Outside the Law -- Introduction The Children -- 1 Undocumented or Illegal? -- 2 What State and Local Role? -- 3 Americans in Waiting? -- 4 Deciding Who Enforces -- 5 Building Communities -- 6 Legalization and the Rule of Law -- 7 Finding Answers

Sommario/riassunto

"In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children to get the education that state law would have denied. The Court established a child's constitutional right to attend public elementary and secondary schools, regardless of immigration status. With Plyler, three questions emerged that have remained central to the national conversation about immigration outside the law: What does it mean to be in the country unlawfully? What is the role of state and local governments in dealing with unauthorized migration? Are unauthorized migrants'Americans in waiting?'Today, as the United States weighs immigration reform, debates over'illegal'or'undocumented'immigrants have become more polarized than ever. In Immigration Outside the Law, acclaimed immigration law expert Hiroshi Motomura, author of



the award-winning Americans in Waiting, offers a framework for understanding why these debates are so contentious. In a reasoned, lucid, and careful discussion, he explains the history of unauthorized migration, the sources of current disagreements, and points the way toward durable answers. In his refreshingly fair-minded analysis, Motomura explains the complexities of immigration outside the law for students and scholars, policy-makers looking for constructive solutions, and anyone who cares about this contentious issue."-from EbscoHost