Making immigrant rights real : nonprofits and the politics of integration in San Francisco /
More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are non-citizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2016.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt18kr5r0 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the local politics of immigrant integration
- Nonprofit organizations as immigrant rights advocates
- Immigrants and politics in San Francisco
- Providing language access through nonprofit-government collaborations
- Raising minimum wages through nonprofit-union collaborations
- Strategic framing and municipal ID cards
- Conclusion : making immigrant rights real
- Appendix : immigrant-serving nonprofits in San Francisco, 2006.