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From Immigrants to Activists

其他書名	Immigration, Nativism, Welfare Reform, and the Mobilization of Immigrant Voters in the Late Nineteenth and Late Twentieth Centuries
出版	University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lZqCAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Within the political culture of the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, symbols abounded that negatively equated immigrants with criminals and welfare cheats. Particularly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were clear similarities between the ways that individuals and groups on all sides of the immigration and welfare debate in America used such imagery as an effective tool for their cause, either to elicit sympathy for immigrants or fear and animus toward them. This dissertation is interdisciplinary in nature. Through analysis of congressional records and other government documents, public opinion surveys, and newspaper and magazine articles in particular, this dissertation investigates the dominant narratives about both the poor and immigrants influencing United States' immigration and social welfare policy, culminating in the mid-1990s and resulting in Hispanic political mobilization that had a significant effect on anti-immigrant policy in the late twentieth century. I examine the importance of the conjuncture between immigration, social welfare policy, and rhetoric in the mid-1990s in order to show how the trope of the immigrant pauper, like the trope of the "welfare queen" in the 1980s and 1990s, informed major policymaking in last two decades of the twentieth century."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.