Title: The Disconnect between Public Attitudes and Policy Outcomes in Immigration
Abstract:Immigration law and policy exhibit a deep structure that shapes them at every turn and that catches my attention every time I teach about immigration or discuss it with my friends and with other schol...Immigration law and policy exhibit a deep structure that shapes them at every turn and that catches my attention every time I teach about immigration or discuss it with my friends and with other scholars in the field. The structure is this: the political economy of immigration is far more one-sided and expansionist than the public attitudes toward immigration, and this is even more true of immigration law scholarship. That is, almost all of the significant political interest groups in the United States with an interest in immigration policy, and almost all immigration law scholars, advocate very strongly in the direction of maintaining an expansive immigration policy – and the policy outcomes testify to their success. Finally, and perhaps needless to say, the principal lawyers' organizations in this field – the American Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association – also favor expansion.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-04-16
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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