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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Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả chính: De Graauw, Els (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2016.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt18kr5r0
Mục lục:
  • 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.