Uneasy border state : the politics and public policy of Latino illegal immigration in metropolitan California, 1971-1996
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores the roots of modern American politics and policy of backlash towards Latino illegal immigration in late twentieth century California, the state with the largest Latino undocumented immigrant population. Drawing on research in dozens of largely untapped archival collections of local, state, and federal officials, agencies, and legislative bodies, and advocates, as well as published media, government, legal, and academic and think tank research sources, I explain evolving debates over labor market impacts, social and fiscal policy, federal immigration policy implementation, local and state immigration policy, and immigration law enforcement. I trace underexplored historical relationships between policymakers at various levels of government and diverse political advocates, political institutional and economic processes, legal developments, and political outcomes of policy shifts. I argue that from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, Latino illegal immigration transformed from a predominantly liberal political issue into a conservative one in metropolitan California. Economic concerns, over labor market competition and increasingly over fiscal impacts, remained the core focus of debate yet conservatives increasingly seized upon and recast economic concerns in a cultural framework and embraced a cultural politics of illegal immigration law and order. The complex structure of modern American federalism made it extremely difficult to address California illegal immigration concerns, helping to fuel the political contentiousness of debate and fragmented local and state policymaking.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Richter, Kelly Kelleher |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Camarillo, Albert |
| Thesis advisor | Camarillo, Albert |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | White, Richard, 1947- |
| Advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Advisor | White, Richard, 1947- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kelly Kelleher Richter. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Kelly Kelleher Richter
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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