Immigration and the American Ethos PDF
by Morris Levy, Matthew Wright
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What do Americans want from immigration policy and why?
In the rise of a polarized and acrimonious immigration debate, leading accounts see racial anxieties and disputes over the meaning of American nationhood coming to a head.
The resurgence of parochial identities has breathed new life into old worries about the vulnerability of the American Creed.
This book tells a different story, one in which creedal values remain hard at work in shaping ordinary Americans' judgements about immigration.
Levy and Wright show that perceptions of civic fairness - based on multiple, often competing values deeply rooted in the country's political culture - are the dominant guideposts by which most Americans navigate immigration controversies most of the time and explain why so many Americans simultaneously hold a mix of pro-immigrant and anti-immigrant positions.
The authors test the relevance and force of the theory over time and across issue domains.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:02/01/2020
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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- ISBN:9781108802819