Citizens, Strangers, And In-betweens

Name: Citizens, Strangers, And In-betweens
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

A recognized authority in the field of immigration law presents a cogent and coherent overview of modern U.S. immigration policies and their consequences. > Immigration is one of the critical issues of our time. In Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens, an integrated series of fourteen essays, Yale professor Peter Schuck analyzes the complex social forces that have been unleashed by unprecedented legal and illegal migration to the United States, forces that are reshaping American society in countless ways. Schuck first presents the demographic, political, economic, legal, and cultural contexts in which these transformations are occurring. He then shows how the courts, Congress, and the states are responding to the tensions created by recent immigration. Next, he explores the nature of American citizenship, challenging traditional ways of defining the national community and analyzing the controversial topics of citizenship for illegal alien children, the devaluation and revaluation u