Contents

Acknowledgements

Timeline

1. Introduction: The Legal Production of Immigrant ‘Illegality’

2. A Brief History of Immigration Law and Policy

3. Job Takers, Criminals, Fiscal Drains: Fact vs. Fiction in the Immigration Debate

4. Harvest of Empire: Globalization and Immigration

5. "Get in Line": The Legal Immigration Queue and the Inequity of Equal Treatment

6. Conclusion: Race, Immigration, and the Moral Case for Reform

Glossary

References

About the Author

Greg Prieto is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. His first book Immigrants Under Threat: Risk and Resistance in the Deportation Nation (NYU Press), was the co-winner of the Best Contribution to Research Book Award granted by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. His articles appear in the journals American Sociological Review, Latino Studies, and Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, among others.

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