Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy

摘要

Over the past decade or so, immigrants to the USA have started bypassing cities, moving straight to the suburbs. While some communities have embraced nativist diversity, others have tried to confront it, such as Carpentersville, Illinois; Farmers Branch, Texas; and Hazleton, Pennsylvania, all of which are mature suburbs that have experienced symptoms of decline since the 1990s, well before their local immigration debates started in the mid-2000. Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy, authored by Thomas J. Vicino, is about 'the consequences of the growing divisions within and among cities and suburbs among [the] special dimensions of socio-economic and political change' (xiv) and how the local political actors reacted to these changes. Vicino bases his three case studies on the framework of neighbourhood socio-economic change and policy progress, asking three research questions.