Immigration Matters: Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future

Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy that brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community. It also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation's identity, economy, and progressive movements for social change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 13 May 2021
Publisher: The New Press

Immigration has been a contentious issue in the United States for many years, with right-wing nativists stoking popular hostility towards the nation's foreign-born population. During the Trump years, advocates had few opportunities to consider long-term policy or future strategy. However, now is the time for a reset. Immigration Matters offers a new, actionable vision for immigration policy that brings together key movement leaders and academics to share cutting-edge approaches to the urgent issues facing the immigrant community. The book also explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation's identity, economy, and progressive movements for social change.

Immigration Matters delves into a variety of topics, including new ways to frame immigration issues, fresh thinking on key aspects of policy, challenges of integration, workers' rights, family reunification, legalization, paths to citizenship, and humane enforcement. The book is the perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age. It makes accessible an immigration policy that both remediates the harm done to immigrant workers and communities under Trump and advances a bold new vision for the future.

In conclusion, Immigration Matters offers a comprehensive and actionable vision for immigration policy that brings together key movement leaders and academics to address the urgent issues facing the immigrant community. The book explores the contributions of immigrants to the nation's identity, economy, and progressive movements for social change and provides fresh solutions to vexing questions of "future flows." It is the perfect handbook for immigration activists, scholars, policy makers, and anyone who cares about one of the most contentious issues of our age.

Weight: 484g
Dimension: 147 x 224 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781620976524