LEADER 04128nam 2200661 450 001 9910466340303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0647-0 010 $a1-5017-0592-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501705922 035 $a(CKB)3710000000954471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4737190 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001660724 035 $a(OCoLC)966876931 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53809 035 $a(DE-B1597)478725 035 $a(OCoLC)979581331 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501705922 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4737190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11296558 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL969167 035 $a(OCoLC)962413163 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000954471 100 $a20161118h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aImmigrants and electoral politics $enonprofit organizing in a time of demographic change /$fHeath Brown 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (249 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a1-5017-0483-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Political Variety and Electoral Efficacy of Immigrant Nonprofit Organizations -- $t1. The Precarious Position of Immigrants -- $t2. Foundations and Funding -- $t3. "You Don't Vote, You Don't Count" -- $t4. A Model of Immigrant-Serving Engagement -- $t5. From Mission to Electoral Strategy -- $t6. Choosing Where to Focus -- $tConclusion: Boldly Representing Immigrants in Tough Times -- $tTechnical Appendix -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend to register and vote at low rates, thereby limiting the political power of many of their communities. In an attempt to boost electoral participation through mobilization, some nonprofits adopt multifaceted political strategies including registering new voters, holding candidate forums, and phone banking to increase immigrant voter turnout. Other nonprofits opt to barely participate at all in electoral politics, preferring to advance the immigrant community by providing exclusively social services.Brown interviewed dozens of nonprofit leaders and surveyed hundreds of organizations. To capture the breadth of the immigrant experience, Brown selected organizations operating in traditional centers of immigration as well as new gateways for immigrants across the South: Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and, North Carolina. The stories that emerge from his research include incredible successes in mobilizing immigrant communities, including organizations that registered sixty thousand new immigrant voters in New York. They also reveal efforts to suppress nonprofit voter mobilization in Florida and describe the organizational response to hate crimes directed at immigrants in Illinois. 606 $aImmigrants$xPolitical activity$zUnited States 606 $aImmigrants$xServices for$zUnited States 606 $aElections$zUnited States 606 $aNonprofit organizations$xPolitical activity$zUnited States 606 $aCommunity organization$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImmigrants$xPolitical activity 615 0$aImmigrants$xServices for 615 0$aElections 615 0$aNonprofit organizations$xPolitical activity 615 0$aCommunity organization 676 $a324.9730086/912 700 $aBrown$b Heath A.$0884982 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466340303321 996 $aImmigrants and electoral politics$92458574 997 $aUNINA