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While the United States cherishes its identity as a nation of immigrants, the country’s immigration policies are historically characterized by cycles of openness and xenophobia. Outbursts of anti-immigrant sentiment among political leaders and in the broader public are fueled by a debate over who is worthy of being considered for full incorporation into the nation, and who is incapable of assimilating and taking on the characteristics and responsibilities associated with being an American. In Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant, Lina Newton carefully dissects the political debates over contemporary immigration reform. Beginning with a close look at the disputes of the 1980's and 1990's, she reveals how a shift in legislator’s portrayals of illegal immigrants-from positive to overwhelmingly negative-facilitated the introduction and passing of controversial reforms. Newton’s analysis reveals how rival descriptions of immigrant groups and the flattering or disparaging myths that surround them define, shape, and can ultimately determine fights over immigration policy. Her pathbreaking findings will shed new light on the current political battles, their likely outcomes, and where to go from here.
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The Paraguayan economy did not suffer debt crises in the eighties and had significant growth rates in the second half on the seventies, but poverty remained a problem. Understanding the performance and spatial distribution of poverty and inequality over a period of more than ten years can shed new light on structural causes behind what seems to be a low growth – high poverty – high inequality trap in Paraguay. How did poverty and inequality change during the 1990s. Did inequality reduce income growth? What were the growth determinants and what are the main forces driving inequality changes? These are the questions being answered in this book.
Political science & theory --- Political structure & processes --- Monetary economics --- Development economics & emerging economies --- Paraguay --- Economic conditions --- 1990s --- Aspects --- Decomposition --- Determinants --- During --- Einkommensverteilung --- Geschichte 1992-2005 --- Growth --- Growth Determinants --- Income --- Inequality --- Lateinamerika --- Otter --- Poverty --- Poverty Maps --- Spatial --- Spatial Economics --- Political science --- Monetary policy. --- Development economics. --- Monetary management --- Economic policy --- Currency boards --- Money supply --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Economics --- Economic development
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Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1990-1999 --- Années nonantes [Les ] (1990-1999) --- Emigratie en immigratie in de literatuur --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Emigration et immigration dans la litterature --- Geschiedenis in de literatuur --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History in literature --- Negentiger jaren (1990-1999) --- Nineteen nineties --- Nineties [The ] --- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature --- Race relations in literature --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Social problems in literature --- Sociale problemen in de literatuur --- 820-3 "19" --- Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 820-3 "19" Engelse literatuur: proza--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- American fiction --- History and literature --- Literature and society --- 1990s --- 90s (Twentieth century decade) --- Nineties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States --- Literature and history --- Mukherjee, Bharati --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Roth, Philip --- Criticism and interpretation --- O'Brien, Tim --- DeLillo, Don --- Wallace, David Foster
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Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. At the heart of this transformation lies the Florida sugar industry, which by the 1990's was at the center of the political storm over the multi-billion dollar ecological "restoration" of the Everglades. Raising Cane in the 'Glades is the first study to situate the environmental transformation of the Everglades within the economic and historical geography of global sugar production and trade. Using, among other sources, interviews, government and corporate documents, and recently declassified U.S. State Department memoranda, Gail M. Hollander demonstrates that the development of Florida's sugar region was the outcome of pitched battles reaching the highest political offices in the U.S. and in countries around the world, especially Cuba-which emerges in her narrative as a model, a competitor, and the regional "other" to Florida's "self." Spanning the period from the age of empire to the era of globalization, the book shows how the "sugar question"-a label nineteenth-century economists coined for intense international debates on sugar production and trade-emerges repeatedly in new guises. Hollander uses the sugar question as a thread to stitch together past and present, local and global, in explaining Everglades transformation.
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