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• Winner of Cowinner, Migration & Citizenship Section Book Award (Migration & Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association).

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9781501700194

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In Making Immigrant Rights Real, Els de Graauw engages with three fascinating cases of immigrant nonprofits' involvement in city politics and program implementation. The author brings to bear evidence from a well-executed, original survey of immigrant nonprofits, as well as incisive quotes from in-depth interviews with nonprofits' leaders and staff, elected officials, and public administrators. The tripartite model de Graauw devises to show how immigrant nonprofits make gains for their clients in local politics is insightful and well supported by the evidence presented. -Paul G. Lewis, Arizona State University, author of Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development Immigrant rights become real when they're actually implemented and enforced. Els de Graauw's important book reveals how San Francisco's immigrant-serving nonprofits quietly, mostly invisibly, but very effectively overcame legal restrictions and limited resources to become powerful political actors advocating for immigrant rights, mediating between local government and the immigrant community, and converting policy on paper into policy in practice. Highly recommended. -Richard DeLeon, author of Left Coast City Els de Graauw tells us something new about the role of nonprofits at the local level in advancing immigrant rights. She shows that nonprofits achieve success by effectively using three strategies: administrative advocacy, collaboration across sectors and with other types of nonprofit organizations, and strategic issue framing. -Mara Sidney, author of Unfair Housing Taking stock of the important role that local nonprofits play in the lives of immigrants is required for a full understanding of immigrant integration in America. Els de Graauw's deftly crafted account is required reading for anyone who hopes to cut through the heated political rhetoric of the immigration debate to understand how the politics of immigration actually happens. -Tomas R. Jimenez, author of Replenished Ethnicity

In Making Immigrant Rights Real, Els de Graauw engages with three fascinating cases of immigrant nonprofits' involvement in city politics and program implementation. The author brings to bear evidence from a well-executed, original survey of immigrant nonprofits, as well as incisive quotes from in-depth interviews with nonprofits' leaders and staff, elected officials, and public administrators. The tripartite model de Graauw devises to show how immigrant nonprofits make gains for their clients in local politics is insightful and well supported by the evidence presented. -Paul G. Lewis, Arizona State University, author of Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development

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Els de Graauw is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, the City University of New York.

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