Book contents
- A Nation of Immigrants
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “Gentlemen, Tradesmen, Serving-men, Libertines”
- 3 “A City upon the Hill”
- 4 “The Seed of a Nation”
- 5 Immigration and the Formation of the Republic
- 6 Building a Nation
- 7 The Golden Door
- 8 The Triumph of Restrictionism
- 9 Turning Inward
- 10 “A Nation of Immigrants”
- 11 A Nation of Refuge
- 12 The Pennsylvania Model at Risk
- 13 Executive Action and Immigration
- 14 Looking Ahead
- References
- Index
12 - The Pennsylvania Model at Risk
1993–2009
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2021
- A Nation of Immigrants
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 “Gentlemen, Tradesmen, Serving-men, Libertines”
- 3 “A City upon the Hill”
- 4 “The Seed of a Nation”
- 5 Immigration and the Formation of the Republic
- 6 Building a Nation
- 7 The Golden Door
- 8 The Triumph of Restrictionism
- 9 Turning Inward
- 10 “A Nation of Immigrants”
- 11 A Nation of Refuge
- 12 The Pennsylvania Model at Risk
- 13 Executive Action and Immigration
- 14 Looking Ahead
- References
- Index
Summary
Within a few short years of the 1990 changes in immigration and refugee policy, the country was turning away from the Pennsylvania model of immigration. This chapter begins with a discussion of the renewed growth in unauthorized migration after the IRCA legalization and the failure of the United States to address it. In many respects, the high level of tolerance for unauthorized migration represents a return to the Virginia model of disposable workers with few rights. But that tolerance came at a price when numbers increased. Unauthorized migration became a divisive issue in the 1994 elections when California adopted Proposition 187, which would have restricted the access of unauthorized migrants, including children, to basic emergency services and education.
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- A Nation of Immigrants , pp. 263 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021