Journal article
The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000-2011(1)
The American journal of sociology, Vol.119(4), pp.1104-1155
01/01/2014
DOI: 10.1086/675301
PMID: 25032270
Abstract
Analyzing oppositional social movements in the context of municipal immigration ordinances, the authors examine whether the explanatory power of resource mobilization, political process, and strain theories of social movements' impact on policy outcomes differs when considering proactive as opposed to reactive movements. The adoption of pro-immigrant (proactive) ordinances was facilitated by the presence of immigrant community organizations and of sympathetic local political allies. The adoption of anti-immigrant (reactive) ordinances was influenced by structural social changes, such as rapid increases in the local Latino population, that were framed as threats. The study also finds that pro-immigrant protest events can influence policy in two ways, contributing both to the passage of pro-immigrant ordinances in the locality where protests occur and also inhibiting the passage of anti-immigrant ordinances in neighboring cities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000-2011(1)
- Creators
- Justin Peter Steil - Columbia UniversityIon Bogdan Vasi - Columbia University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of sociology, Vol.119(4), pp.1104-1155
- DOI
- 10.1086/675301
- PMID
- 25032270
- NLM abbreviation
- AJS
- ISSN
- 0002-9602
- eISSN
- 1537-5390
- Publisher
- Univ Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 52
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Management and Entrepreneurship ; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984306243502771
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