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The Product: ISBN: 9780816674732 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780816674732 Author(s): Christina Gerken Format: Paperback Year: 2013 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: 137 x 213 x 25 (w x l x h) Pages: 328

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Description: During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. 'Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens' examines the changing debates around immigration that preceded and followed the passage of landmark legislation by the U.S. Congress in the mid-1990s, arguing that it represented a new, neoliberal way of thinking and talking about immigration.Christina Gerken explores the content and the social implications of the deliberations that surrounded the development and passage of immigration reform, analyzing a wide array of writings from congressional debates and committee reports to articles and human-interest stories in mainstream newspapers. The process, she shows, disguised its underlying racism by creating discursive strategies that shaped and upheld an image of 'desirable' immigrants--those who could demonstrate 'personal responsibility' and an ability to contribute to the U.S. economy. Gerken finds that politicians linked immigration to complex issues: poverty, welfare reform, so-called family values, measures designed to combat terrorism, and the spiraling costs of social welfare programs.Although immigrants were oft