Alienated : immigrant rights, the constitution, and equality in America / / Victor C. Romero

• Autore: Romero Victor C
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 pages)
• Disciplina: 342.7308/2
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration law - United States; Constitutional law - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: Alienated; American; Filipino; Romero; adoptees; bi-national; brings; citizens; citizenship; constitutional; either; forcing; foreign-born; foreign; from; immigrants; immigration; including; lawmakers; legally; look; murky; naturalized; other; outsiders; partners; people; perspective; point; same-gender; status; students; tourists; undocumented; vantage; viewpoint; whose
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Equality for all as a constitutional mandate (noncitizens included!) -- Immigrants and the war on terrorism after 9/11 -- Automatic citizens, automatic deportees : parents, children, and crimes -- Building the floor : preserving the Fourth Amendment rights of undocumented migrants -- Hitting the ceiling : the right to a college education -- A peek into the future? : same-gender partners and immigration law -- The equal noncitizen : alternatives in theory and practice.
• Sommario/riassunto: Romero endorses an equality-based reading of the Constitution and advocates a new theoretical and practical approach that protects the individual rights of non-citizens without sacrificing their personhood.
• Titolo autorizzato: Alienated
• ISBN: 0-8147-7674-4; 0-8147-0804-8; 1-4294-1484-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777605703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical America.