De Bush à Obama, la réforme bloquée du contrôle de l’immigration

Barack Obama has encountered as many obstacles as did George W. Bush in the quest to adopt “immigration reform”, mostly because of the refusal of a growing bloc of legislators to allow for the regularization of all or most of the more than 10 million undocumented people currently living in the U.S....

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Main Author: James Cohen
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Groupe de Recherche Amérique Latine Histoire et Mémoire 2011-12-01
Series:Les Cahiers ALHIM
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/alhim/4049
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Summary:Barack Obama has encountered as many obstacles as did George W. Bush in the quest to adopt “immigration reform”, mostly because of the refusal of a growing bloc of legislators to allow for the regularization of all or most of the more than 10 million undocumented people currently living in the U.S. In spite of certain differences in discourse, there is more continuity than discontinuity between the immigration policies of the two administrations. This article attempts to shed light on this situation by setting it in the historical context of immigration flows, immigration policies, and the emergence of a neo-nativist current in U.S. politics.
ISSN:1628-6731
1777-5175