Immigration in the Court of Public Opinion (Imm, Citrin, Levy, Wright^+

Immigration in the Court of Public OpinionAuthor(s): Jack Citrin, Morris S. Levy, Matthew Wright\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509550685, 978-1509550685\nSynopsis\nWhat does a nation of immigrants think and feel about immigration? Recent accounts of immigration policy routinely cast Americans as divided into two warring camps one fueled by threat to livelihoods and way of life, the other by a fervent cosmopolitanism that sees the nation-state as pass. This counter-intuitive book shows that these accounts miss the mark. First, almost all Americans hold a mix of \""\""pro-\""\"" and \""\""anti-immigrant\""\"" opinions. Their views are pragmatic and flexible rather than dead-set. Second, opinions about immigration are more powerfully influenced by liberal values and concerns about the well-being of American society as a whole than by identity politics. Third, the assimilation Americans demand from immigrants matches .