Carolyn Wong
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804751759
- eISBN:
- 9780804767750
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804751759.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
In every decade since the passage of the Hart Cellar Act of 1965, Congress has faced conflicting pressures: to restrict legal immigration and to provide employers with unregulated access to migrant ...
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In every decade since the passage of the Hart Cellar Act of 1965, Congress has faced conflicting pressures: to restrict legal immigration and to provide employers with unregulated access to migrant labor. This book shows that in these debates, immigrant-rights groups advocated a surprisingly moderate course of action: expansionism was tempered by a politics of inclusion. Rights advocates supported generous family-unification policies, for example, but opposed proposals that would admit large numbers of guest workers without providing a clear path to citizenship. As leaders of pro-immigrant coalitions, Latino and Asian American rights advocates were highly effective in influencing immigration lawmakers even before their constituencies gained political clout in the voting booth. Success depended on casting rights demands in universalistic terms, while leveraging their standing as representatives of growing minority populations.Less
In every decade since the passage of the Hart Cellar Act of 1965, Congress has faced conflicting pressures: to restrict legal immigration and to provide employers with unregulated access to migrant labor. This book shows that in these debates, immigrant-rights groups advocated a surprisingly moderate course of action: expansionism was tempered by a politics of inclusion. Rights advocates supported generous family-unification policies, for example, but opposed proposals that would admit large numbers of guest workers without providing a clear path to citizenship. As leaders of pro-immigrant coalitions, Latino and Asian American rights advocates were highly effective in influencing immigration lawmakers even before their constituencies gained political clout in the voting booth. Success depended on casting rights demands in universalistic terms, while leveraging their standing as representatives of growing minority populations.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804751759
- eISBN:
- 9780804767750
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804751759.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose: to examine how organized economic interests and ethnic groups both cooperate and compete to influence lawmakers in Congress. It then ...
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This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose: to examine how organized economic interests and ethnic groups both cooperate and compete to influence lawmakers in Congress. It then discusses the Hart Cellar Act of 1965; ethnic advocacy and regulation; theories of immigration lawmaking; identity politics and representation; and guest-worker policy. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose: to examine how organized economic interests and ethnic groups both cooperate and compete to influence lawmakers in Congress. It then discusses the Hart Cellar Act of 1965; ethnic advocacy and regulation; theories of immigration lawmaking; identity politics and representation; and guest-worker policy. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Sujani Reddy
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814786437
- eISBN:
- 9780814786451
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814786437.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter explores the relationship between the transnational transfer of power within Indian nursing and the beginning of Indian nurses' immigration to the United States. It considers the role ...
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This chapter explores the relationship between the transnational transfer of power within Indian nursing and the beginning of Indian nurses' immigration to the United States. It considers the role played by the Rockefeller Foundation in first remaking the global map of colonial medicine, and then promoting India's first generation of nursing leaders through their access to U.S.-centered models of professionalization. It shows that the Rockefeller Foundation functioned as the “hidden hand” turning decades marked by struggles for decolonization into a prelude to the eventual immigration of Indian nurses to America. Instead of focusing on the machinations of the Hart-Cellar Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965), the chapter lays emphasis on the shifting terrain of Anglo-American imperialism in the decades leading up to the Cold War and the onset of American ascendancy.Less
This chapter explores the relationship between the transnational transfer of power within Indian nursing and the beginning of Indian nurses' immigration to the United States. It considers the role played by the Rockefeller Foundation in first remaking the global map of colonial medicine, and then promoting India's first generation of nursing leaders through their access to U.S.-centered models of professionalization. It shows that the Rockefeller Foundation functioned as the “hidden hand” turning decades marked by struggles for decolonization into a prelude to the eventual immigration of Indian nurses to America. Instead of focusing on the machinations of the Hart-Cellar Act (Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965), the chapter lays emphasis on the shifting terrain of Anglo-American imperialism in the decades leading up to the Cold War and the onset of American ascendancy.
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804751759
- eISBN:
- 9780804767750
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804751759.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines the policy preferences of various of interest groups as revealed in contests over immigration policy after passage of the Hart Cellar Act in 1965. Some groups are concerned ...
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This chapter examines the policy preferences of various of interest groups as revealed in contests over immigration policy after passage of the Hart Cellar Act in 1965. Some groups are concerned primarily with the economic impact of immigration policies and focus their attention on maximizing the income of their members, while others are interested mainly in cultural effects—on native residents of the United States or on immigrants themselves. The chapter challenges the view that immigration policymaking is captured by expansionist special interests, analyzing how and why coalitions of interest groups form and shift along multiple issue axes.Less
This chapter examines the policy preferences of various of interest groups as revealed in contests over immigration policy after passage of the Hart Cellar Act in 1965. Some groups are concerned primarily with the economic impact of immigration policies and focus their attention on maximizing the income of their members, while others are interested mainly in cultural effects—on native residents of the United States or on immigrants themselves. The chapter challenges the view that immigration policymaking is captured by expansionist special interests, analyzing how and why coalitions of interest groups form and shift along multiple issue axes.
