The first book length treatment of the ways the welfare reform is affecting immigrants in North America.
Acknowledgments Foreword by Ronald Walters Abbreviations and Terms Tables Overview Introduction by Philip Kretsedemas and Ana Aparicio Welfare Reform and Immigrants: A Policy Review by Audrey Singer No Safe Haven: Work, Welfare, and the Growth of Immigrant Exclusion by John Sheilds Immigrant Communities after Welfare Reform Una Puerta Abierta y Puerta Cerrada. Citizenship, Healthcare, and Welfare Reform in New Mexico by Lisa Cacari Stone and Ana Quiroz Disparate Welfare Needs and Impacts of Welfare Reform Among Illinois Immigrants by Rob Paral Avoiding the State: Haitian Immigrants and Welfare Services in Miami-Dade County by Philip Kretsedemas Immigrant Women after Welfare Reform Immigrants' Access to Public Health Care Systems in New York's "Post-Reform" Era by Ana Aparicio Welfare Reform in Santa Clara California: The Experiences of Mexican and Vietnamese Immigrant Women by Doris Ng Refugees and Resettlement Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR): Offering Hmong Welfare Recipients' Voices for Dialogue and Change by Kalyani Rai Resettlement Experiences of Somali Refugee Women in Toronto by Arlene Herman and Neita Kay Israelite Welfare and Immigration Reform on the U.S.-Mexico Border Border Residents Manage the U.S. Immigration and Welfare Reforms by Randy Capps, Jacqueline Hagan, and Nestor Rodriguez Con la ayuda de dios? El Pasoans at the Border by Kathleen Staudt and Randy Capps Closing Remarks Reflections on Immigrant Hardships after Welfare Reform: New Challenges and Changing Trends by Kalyani Rai, Philip Kretsedemas, and Ana Aparicio About the Contributors
PHILIP KRETSEDEMAS is Director of Communications for the National Immigration Project. ANA APARICIO is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
.,."[A] compelling and grounded analysis of the critical policy
nexus of immigration and welfare. Focusing on the sharp end of the
welfare restructuring process in a range of local settings, and
tracing out implications for a range of immigrant populations, this
carefully selected collection of essays provides a sharp critique
of the sorry status quo....It will be an invaluable resource for
policy advocates and researchers in this contentious, yet
important, policy field."-Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and
Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of Workfare
States
"Many Americans support the restrictions on welfare assistance for
immigrants because they think this will discourage immigration.
This view is profoundly mistaken, as the authors of this collection
of articles show."-Frances Fox Piven, The Graduate School and
University Center The City University of New York
"This book is a major contribution to our understanding of how the
1996 immigration and welfare reforms have affected immigrants in
the United States. Based on research conducted in different states
with diverse immigrant groups, the contributors to this volume
provide insightful analyses of the politics, processes and outcomes
of these policy measures. This volume should ignite a wide
discussion about the declining status and rights of
immigrants--including legal permanent residents--in the United
States."-Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Department of Sociology
University of Southern California
"This is community based research of the best kind: a genuinely
close Collaboration among scholars, local residents, advocates, and
policymakers, all striving to document from the ground up the
understudied effects of the 1996 welfare reform act on immigrants.
In so doing, they shift the focus away from individual failings and
onto a larger institutional context which reveals the poverty of
policy."-Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and Aliens
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