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Informationen zum Autor Pratheepan Gulasekaram is Associate Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He has published widely on immigration federalism and the constitutional rights of noncitizens both in popular media platforms and prominent legal journals including the New York University Law Review. Before entering academia, Gulasekaram clerked for the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. He earned his BA at Brown University and his JD at Stanford Law School. S. Karthick Ramakrishnan is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He directs the National Asian American Survey and has written numerous books and articles on civic participation and immigration policy. Ramakrishnan is founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) and is an appointee to the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs. He earned his BA at Brown University and his PhD at Princeton University. Klappentext This book offers an empirical analysis of recent pro- and anti-immigration lawmaking at state and local levels in the USA. Zusammenfassung This book challenges the conventional wisdom about state and local immigration lawmaking in the US. Using empirical analysis! the authors show that anti-immigration laws are not the result of demographic changes but instead of politics. Includes a historical overview of US immigration law useful for students and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Setting the stage for the new immigration federalism; 3. Rise of restrictive legislation and demographic arguments of 'vital necessity'; 4. A political theory of immigration federalism: the polarized change model and restrictive issue entrepreneurs; 5. A shifting tide in 2012: pro-integration activists gain the upper hand; 6. Implications for legal theory on federalism and immigration law; 7. Immigration federalism is here to stay; Appendix A: statistical analysis of restrictive local ordinances; Appendix B: statistical analysis of restrictive state laws; Appendix C: statistical analysis of state immigrant integration laws....
