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Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration. Edited By John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 344 pp. $24.95 (Paper).
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rich, Michael J. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Immigration has been a core issue in the partisan polarization currently paralyzing national policymaking and was a central issue in the 2016 presidential election, with Donald Trump taking a strong anti-immigration position. President Trump moved quickly to fulfill his “America First” campaign promise, including the issuance of travel ban restrictions, continuing to advocate for the construction of a wall along the border with Mexico, and in September 2017, announcing he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 6 months unless Congress enacted a replacement. Thus, rather than resolve the immigration deadlock, the 2016 presidential election intensified the positions on both sides of the debate. Over the past decade, as national consensus on immigration appeared well beyond reach, state and local governments have become more prominent actors, with some, such as Arizona, adopting anti-immigration policies and others such as California and Connecticut passing a variety of pro-integration initiatives. With a nod to former House Speaker Tip O’Neill’s observation that “all politics is local,” two of the nation’s foremost scholars on racial and ethnic politics in urban and metropolitan communities have convened a superb group of coauthors to examine the determinants of contemporary immigration integration in seven metropolitan regions. The key question driving Unsettled Americans is why does 454 Book Reviews |
| Starting Page | 454 |
| Ending Page | 456 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S2056608518000181 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2018.18 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
