Description: Those Damned ImmigrantsAmerica?s Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration Author(s): Ediberto Rom?n, Michael A. Olivas Format: Hardback Publisher: New York University Press, United States Imprint: New York University Press ISBN-13: 9780814776575, 978-0814776575 Synopsis Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigration 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 Rom?n 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. Rom?n 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.
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Book Title: Those Damned Immigrants
Number of Pages: 197 Pages
Publication Name: Those Damned Immigrants: America's Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Law, Transportation
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 476 g
Subject Area: Constitutional Law
Author: Michael A. Olivas, Ediberto Roman
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Citizenship and Migration in the Americas
Format: Hardcover