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Debating Immigration

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ISBN-13: 978-0521698665
ISBN-10: 0521698669
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  • Paperback: 330 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 30, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0521698669
  • ISBN-13: 978-0521698665
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,036,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Yale Law School Professor Peter H. Schuck observes:

"In a polity in which only 17 percent of the public thinks that immigration levels should be higher and 39 percent thinks they should be lower, one would expect that at least some legal scholars who write about immigration issues would favor restriction. If so, one would be wrong. In over two decades of immersion in immigration scholarship, I have not encountered a single academic specialist on immigration law who favors reducing the number of legal immigrants admitted each year." The Disconnect Between Public Attitudes and Policy Outcomes in Immigration [In Debating Immigration, Chapter 2, p.17, the link is to an unedited version.]

So, Carol M. Swain, a law and political science professor at Vanderbilt, has done the academic world a service (although one it probably won't appreciate) with her new book Debating Immigration. She brings together 16 chapters from academic and think tank luminaries such as Nathan Glazer, Amitai Etzioni, Douglas S. Massey, and Steven A. Camarota, along with lively essays from journalists Peter Brimelow and Jonathan Tilove.

Swain is one of the more unusual and admirable scholars in public policy. Growing up black and poor in rural Virginia, one of twelve children, she dropped out of 9th grade and married at 16. In her mid-20s she started back to school. Eventually, she earned tenure at Princeton as an expert on how Congress operates.

Her views are difficult to categorize politically. I would say she's an advocate of black enlightened self-interest, left of center on economics, right of center on culture.
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College-level collections and many a high school library will want to consider DEBATING IMMIGRATION: it offers an unusually well-balanced collection of debates on various immigration issue positions which gathers reasonings from Left, Right and Middle about immigration and border issues, and provides a wide range of theories, approaches, and ideologies. As such it's a particularly strong pick for any collection including social issues and debating in its holdings, with essays both scholarly and accessible at the college level.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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I ordered this book so that I could get numerous, diverse opinions about immigration. I was pleased to find that it was just what I needed: verifyable information from various sources giving me the "bigger picture" on a very complex social issue which we must face. (I grew up on a cotton farm during the Bracero Act days (1950's). That worked well, at least in our case.) I am now at a loss, however, on how best to go about solving this huge problem. I do think it is always better to take sides on any issue using as many facts as possible instead of charging ahead blindly. I recommend this book to all who are like-minded.
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Excellent assortment of essays. Several different viewpoints are portrayed creating a very objective view of the immigration issue. Great insight coupled with a great deal of factual evidence.
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