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Provocative and well-researched,The Cultural Politics of US Immigrationanalyzes the public sentiment, congressional discourse, and cultural politics surrounding immigration reform.Methodologically innovative, Leah Perry pulls multiple disciplinary threads in order to produce a unique paradigm for studying the relationship between popular culture and public policy. -- Isabel Molina-Guzman,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media Impressive in scope, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration explores popular culture, political rhetoric, and legal discourses from the 1980s and early 1990s as staging grounds for the transformation of multiculturalism and the erosion of welfare policies in ways that anticipated contemporary neoliberal debates. Well-researched and clearly argued, Perrys comparative emphasis on several migratory groups will make a significant contribution to immigration studies. An ambitious book. -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith,author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the U.S.

Provocative and well-researched, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration analyzes the public sentiment, congressional discourse, and cultural politics surrounding immigration reform. Methodologically innovative, Leah Perry pulls multiple disciplinary threads in order to produce a unique paradigm for studying the relationship between popular culture and public policy. -Isabel Molina-Guzman,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media Impressive in scope, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration explores popular culture, political rhetoric, and legal discourses from the 1980s and early 1990s as staging grounds for the transformation of multiculturalism and the erosion of welfare policies in ways that anticipated contemporary neoliberal debates. Well-researched and clearly argued, Perry's comparative emphasis on several migratory groups will make a significant contribution to immigration studies. An ambitious book. -Claudia Sadowski-Smith,author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the U.S.

""Impressive in scope, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration explores popular culture, political rhetoric, and legal discourses from the 1980s and early 1990s as staging grounds for the transformation of multiculturalism and the erosion of welfare policies in ways that anticipated contemporary neoliberal debates. Well-researched and clearly argued, Perrys comparative emphasis on several migratory groups will make a significant contribution to immigration studies. An ambitious book."" -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith,author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the U.S. ""Provocative and well-researched,The Cultural Politics of US Immigrationanalyzes the public sentiment, congressional discourse, and cultural politics surrounding immigration reform.Methodologically innovative, Leah Perry pulls multiple disciplinary threads in order to produce a unique paradigm for studying the relationship between popular culture and public policy."" -- Isabel Molina-Guzmán,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media

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Leah Perry is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at SUNY-Empire State College.

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