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This book is for scholars, policy makers, advocacy groups, and concerned citizens who are interested in immigration politics and law, citizenship rights and civil rights, American political development, and federalism and state politics.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Citizenship in a federated framework; 3. National and state citizenship in the American context; 4. State citizenship for blacks; 5. Worst to first: California's evolution from regressive to progressive state citizenship; 6. State citizenship and immigration federalism; 7. Enabling progress on state citizenship.
About the author
Allan Colbern is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He is a Presidential Award recipient from the Russell Sage Foundation and Carnegie Corporation, and his research has been featured in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.S. Karthick Ramakrishnan is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside and founding Director of its Center for Social Innovation. He is a trustee of The California Endowment, a Frederick Douglass 200 honoree, and has received major grants from the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other national and state foundations.
Summary
This book is for scholars, policy makers, advocacy groups, and concerned citizens who are interested in immigration politics and law, citizenship rights and civil rights, American political development, and federalism and state politics.
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'This provocative and important volume challenges us to rethink both theory and practice. Reframing citizenship in terms of five dimensions of rights and access, the authors stress how states can use (and have used) progressive federalism to expand belonging and opportunity. Offering a special focus on California's recent pioneering efforts to promote immigrant integration, the authors chart a path for the development of policies and models that can be scaled to the national stage. Carefully researched, convincingly argued, and remarkably well-written, this is a must-read for immigration scholars and for those concerned with how social movements can leverage local power for broader change.' Manuel Pastor, USC Dornsife
