Debating Immigration

Part I. Economics, Demographics, and Race: 1. Race, immigration and civil rights law in the low-skilled workplace John D. Skrentny; 2. Comprehensive immigration confusion Peter Skerry; 3. Who got the jobs? Two-thirds of long term employment growth has done to immigrants, 2000 to 2017 Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler; 4. The congressional black caucus and the impact of immigration on African American unemployment Carol M. Swain; 5. Will Hispanic and Asian immigrants save America? Amitai Etzioni; Part II. Law and Policy: 6. The progressive argument for reducing immigration into the United States Philip Cafaro; 7. What should comprehensive immigration reform encompass? Carol M. Swain; 8. Unintended consequences and path dependencies: explaining the post 1965 surge in Latin American immigration Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren; 9. Alien rights, citizen rights, and the politics of restriction Rogers M. Smith; 10. Beyond legal and illegal: a new framework for the immigration debate Noah Pickus and Peter Skerry; 11. Federalism and the politics of immigration reform Carol M. Swain and Virginia M. Yetter; 12. Barack Obama: testing the constitutional limits on the executive Carol M. Swain; Part III. Philosophy and Religion: 13. Biblical prudence and American immigration Jim Edwards; 14. The moral dilemma of US immigration policy: open borders vs. social justice? Stephen Macedo; 15. Carved from the inside out: American ambivalence about immigration Elizabeth F. Cohen; Part IV. Cosmopolitanism: How European Nations Deal With Immigration: 16. The politics of citizenship and belonging in Europe Marc Morje Howard and Sara Wallace Goodman; 17. Globalization, migration and governance Susan F. Martin; 18. The free economy and the Jacobin state, or how Europe can cope with large scale immigration Randall Hansen; 19. Human smuggling and trafficking into Europe Louise Shelley and Camilo Pardo; Part V. Conclusion: 20. Concluding thoughts Carol M. Swain.