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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contemporary Assimilation in the United States
2. Enemy Invaders! Mexican Immigrants and U.S. Wars Against Them
3. Anti-immigration Groups and Civil Society: Pathway to Democracy or Support for Prerogative Power?
4. Homo laborans, Statelessness, and Terror: Economic Deregulation and the Strengthening of Sovereignty
Conclusion: The Right to Rights?
Index
“Kathleen Arnold examines the contemporary ‘problem’ of immigration—and ‘illegal’ migrants specifically—in a unique and fascinating manner that illuminates how it came to be. In doing so, she identifies and challenges widely held assumptions and provides invaluable insights into globalization, sovereignty, citizenship, and human rights. She puts critical theory to work as one should: to help us understand a messy and complicated ‘reality’ and, more important, to imagine and put into practice a profoundly transformational politics to bring about a more just world. American Immigration After 1996 is of great importance and deserves a wide audience.”
—Joseph Nevins, Vassar College, author of Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid
