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Takes on critics of Latina/o immigration, using government statistics, economic data, historical records, and social science research to provide a counter-narrative

Table of Contents

Foreword Michael A. Olivas Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric 3. Empirical Data on Immigration 4. Immigration's Effects on State and Local Economies 5. The Conflicted United States-Mexico Relationship: Invitation and Exclusion 6. Sociological and Psychological Insights on Anti-Immigrant Bias 7. A Pragmatic Proposal for Immigration Reform Notes Index About the Author

About the Author

Ediberto Román (Author)
Ediberto Román is Professor of Law at Florida International University. He is the author of The Other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of the United States' Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests, and edits the NYU Press series Citizenship and Migration in the Americas.
Michael A. Olivas (Author)
The late Michael A. Olivas was William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Houston Law Center and Director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance at UH. His books include Colored Men And Hombres Aquí: Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering; The Law And Higher Education: Cases And Materials on Colleges in Court Third Edition; and Education Law Stories (with Ronna Greff Schneider).

Reviews

"This outstanding book illuminates the historical, economic, political and even psychological aspects of one of the major civil rights issues of our time. Balanced, thoroughly researched and clear-eyed, this volume is sure to anger - and should be read - by partisans on both sides of the immigration debate. In a controversy dominated by selective presentation of evidence and oversimplification, Roman brings sorely needed expertise and fair-minded analysis." Gabriel Chin, University of California Davis School of Law "This data-driven and massively documented study replaces rhetoric with analysis, myth with fact, and apocalyptic predictions with sane and realizable proposals." Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law, Florida International University