Debating Immigration presents twenty-one original and updated essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and pre-eminent scholars that explore the nuances of contemporary immigration in the United States and Europe. This volume is organized around the following themes: economics, demographics and race, law and policy, philosophy and religion, and European politics. Its topics include comprehensive immigration reform, the limits of executive power, illegal immigration, human smuggling, civil rights and employment discrimination, economic growth and unemployment, and social justice and religion. A timely second edition, Debating Immigration is an effort to bring together divergent voices to discuss various aspects of immigration often neglected or buried in discussions.
Part I. Economics, Demographics, and Race: 1. Race, immigration and civil rights law in the low-skilled workplace John D. Skrentny; 2. Comprehensive immigration confusion Peter Skerry; 3. Who got the jobs? Two-thirds of long term employment growth has done to immigrants, 2000 to 2017 Steven A. Camarota and Karen Zeigler; 4. The congressional black caucus and the impact of immigration on African American unemployment Carol M. Swain; 5. Will Hispanic and Asian immigrants save America? Amitai Etzioni; Part II. Law and Policy: 6. The progressive argument for reducing immigration into the United States Philip Cafaro; 7. What should comprehensive immigration reform encompass? Carol M. Swain; 8. Unintended consequences and path dependencies: explaining the post 1965 surge in Latin American immigration Douglas S. Massey and Karen A. Pren; 9. Alien rights, citizen rights, and the politics of restriction Rogers M. Smith; 10. Beyond legal and illegal: a new framework for the immigration debate Noah Pickus and Peter Skerry; 11. Federalism and the politics of immigration reform Carol M. Swain and Virginia M. Yetter; 12. Barack Obama: testing the constitutional limits on the executive Carol M. Swain; Part III. Philosophy and Religion: 13. Biblical prudence and American immigration Jim Edwards; 14. The moral dilemma of US immigration policy: open borders vs. social justice? Stephen Macedo; 15. Carved from the inside out: American ambivalence about immigration Elizabeth F. Cohen; Part IV. Cosmopolitanism: How European Nations Deal With Immigration: 16. The politics of citizenship and belonging in Europe Marc Morje Howard and Sara Wallace Goodman; 17. Globalization, migration and governance Susan F. Martin; 18. The free economy and the Jacobin state, or how Europe can cope with large scale immigration Randall Hansen; 19. Human smuggling and trafficking into Europe Louise Shelley and Camilo Pardo; Part V. Conclusion: 20. Concluding thoughts Carol M. Swain.
