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Autore: |
Thangasamy Andrew
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Titolo: |
State policies for undocumented immigrants : policy-making and outcomes in the U.S., 1998-2005 / / Andrew Thangasamy
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Pubblicazione: | El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (262 p.) |
Disciplina: | 325.7309/0511 |
Soggetto topico: | Immigrants - Government policy - United States - States |
Aliens - Government policy - United States - States | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-252) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Comparative immigration studies and U.S. sub-national state policy making -- A nested analysis of state policy outcomes for undocumented immigrants -- Lowering barriers to higher education for undocumented immigrants -- Licensing undocumented immigrant drivers in the states, 1998-2005 -- Pre-natal health care for undocumented immigrant women -- Framing the problem: undocumented immigrants and issues in the states -- Explaining progressive state policy making for undocumented immigrants in the U.S. states. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Thangasamy examines state level policy making for undocumented immigrants in the United States between 1998 and 2005. This period saw heightened state legislative activity regarding access to higher education and the availability of driver's licenses and health benefits for undocumented immigrants. Some states chose to extend these benefits to undocumented immigrants while some did not. Thangasamy seeks to explain the variation in state responses. He tested partisanship, interest group politics, bureaucratic politics, and the role of race and ethnicity to explain policy variation. While, neither |
Titolo autorizzato: | State policies for undocumented immigrants ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-59332-637-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822328103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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