Immigration Matters: Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future

ISBN 10: 1620976528 / ISBN 13: 9781620976524

Published by The New Press, 2021

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Seller Inventory # BSM.ZRCE

Synopsis:

A provocative, strategic plan for a humane immigration system from the nation’s leading immigration scholars and activists

During the past decade, right-wing nativists have stoked popular hostility to the nation’s foreign-born population, forcing the immigrant rights movement into a defensive posture. In the Trump years, preoccupied with crisis upon crisis, advocates had few opportunities to consider questions of long-term policy or future strategy. Now is the time for a reset.

Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy. It brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community, along with fresh solutions to vexing questions of so-called “future flows” that have bedeviled policy makers for decades. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation’s identity, its economy, and progressive movements for social change. Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers’ rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement.

The perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age, Immigration Matters makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future.

About the Authors: Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, where she also serves as research director, and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the co-editor (with Deepak Bhargava and Penny Lewis) of Immigration Matters (The New Press).

Deepak Bhargava has been an organizer and campaigner for over thirty years. A former distinguished lecturer at CUNY, president and executive director of Community Change, and senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, he is now president of the JPB Foundation. The co-editor (with Ruth Milkman and Penny Lewis) of Immigration Matters and co-author (with Stephanie Luce) of Practical Radicals (both published by The New Press), he lives in New York City.

Penny Lewis is an associate professor of labor studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the co-editor (with Ruth Milkman and Deepak Bhargava) of Immigration Matters (The New Press).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Immigration Matters: Movements, Visions, and...
Publisher: The New Press
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: good