Title: The Early Politicization of the Illegal-Immigration Issue
Abstract: The concern of this chapter is the genesis of the backlash against immigration, and illegal immigration in particular, which began in California in the early 1990s and later spread to the wider United States. Many intersecting factors contributed to the backlash, including a deteriorating economy, environmental worries, crime, the perceived welfare burden imposed by immigrants, and concerns about immigrants' assimilability and threat to whites' numerical and cultural dominance.KeywordsFederal GovernmentIllegal ImmigrationUndocumented ImmigrantRepublican PartyPersonal FinanceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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