Index
| AFL-CIO, 76. See also Labor interests | |
| Agjobs, 180 | |
| “Agrarian myth,” 73. See also Family farmer | |
| Agricultural employers, negative constructions, 164 | |
| Agricultural interests, influence on IRCA, 50–52 | |
| Agriculture: perishable fruit growers, 165; as policy target, interest groups, 70–71, 76–80, 82; positive social construction and power, 165; privileged political position of, 165 | |
| Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 117 | |
| American citizenship: different models of, IRCA vs. IIRAIRA, 158; and “hard work,” 157; self-sufficiency, 157; social construction of, 157; taxpaying and social construction of, 158 | |
| American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 76, 175 | |
| 'American dream,” 19, 143–144. See also Immigration mythology | |
| Americanization movement, 12 | |
| Amnesty. See Legalization (IRCA, 1980s) | |
| “Anchor babies,” 156. See also Birthright citizenship | |
| Ascriptive citizenship, 15 | |
| Asian Americans, as “permanent foreigners,” 22. See also Racial triangulation theory | |
| Asian immigration: exclusion of laborers, 26; immigration from, 145, 153, 169; restriction, 12; restriction compared to eastern and southern Europeans, 20. See also China, as source of immigration; India, as source of immigration; Philippines, as source of immigration | |
| Asian triangle, 12 |
| Balanced budget conservatism, 21, 61, 164, 195n30 | |
| Benefits reinstatement, 8, 135 | |
| Bilbray, Brian (R-CA), 119, 120 | |
| Birthright citizenship, 157–159; efforts to revoke, 154, 175; as migration inducement, 154. See also Fourteenth Amendment; Gallegly amendment | |
| “Boot-strapping.” See Birthright citizenship, as migration inducement | |
| Border: and cultural, economic dynamism, 151–152; as euphemism for Mexicans, 147; expansion of Minuteman Project to, 174; fence project, 178; and immorality, 150; as “lawless,” 118–120, 149; pathologies of, 30; race and enforcement, 13; security, 172; as stigma, 148–152, 154; U.S.-Canada, 148, 150; U.S.-Mexico, 146 | |
| Border enforcement, and return migration, 53 | |
| Border Patrol, 28, 52, 56, 173; and Minuteman Project, 174; and Operation Wetback, 96 | |
| Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, 206n14 | |
| Bracero program, 27, 78–79, 190n74, 191n80 | |
| Bush, George W., 10, 171; attempts to lead on immigration reform, 179; guest worker program proposals, 171; reaction to Minuteman Project, 173; televised address in support of immigration reform, 177 | |
| Business interests, and 2007 Senate plan for immigration reform, 179 |
| California, 2, 10; 1994 general election, 104; and illegal immigration concerns, 44–45, 55–57; and recession, 44, 56. |
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Book title: Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform.
Contributors: Lina Newton - Author.
Publisher: New York University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2008.
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