Román, Ediberto.
New York : New York University Press, 2013.
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Part of the series Citizenship and migration in the Americas;Citizenship and migration in the Americas.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Anti-immigrant rhetoric — Empirical data on immigration — Immigration’s effects on state and local economies — The conflicted United States-Mexico relationship : invitation and exclusion — Sociological and psychological insights on anti-immigrant bias — A pragmatic proposal for immigration reform.
- The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant, was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling anti-Latino slurs, the men beat Sucuzhanay into a coma. He died 5 days later. The incident is one of countless attacks–ranging from physical violence to raids on homes and workplaces to verbal abuse–that Latino/a immigrants have confronted for generations in America. And these attacks–physical and otherwise–are accepted by a substantial number of American citizens and elected officials, who are virulently opposed to immigrant groups crossing the Mexican border. Quick to cast all Latino/a immigrants as illegal, opponents have placed undocumented workers at the center of their anti-immigrant movement, and as such, many different types of native Spanish-speakers in this country (legal, illegal, citizen, guest), have been targeted as being responsible for increasing crime rates, a plummeting economy, and an erosion of traditional American values and culture. In Those Damned Immigrants, Ediberto Román takes on critics of Latina/o immigration, drawing on empirical evidence to refute charges of links between immigration and crime, economic downfall, and a weakening of Anglo culture. Román utilizes government statistics, economic data, historical records, and social science research to provide a counter-narrative to what he argues is a largely one-sided public discourse on Latino/a immigration. –Publisher’s website.
Subjects:
- United States — Emigration and immigration — Government policy.
- Immigrants — United States.
- Citizenship — United States.
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