The Immigration Crisis

Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement

Armando Navarro

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Year: 2008
• eBook ISBN: 9780759112360
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Immigration Law
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Immigration remains one of the most pressing and polarizing issues in the United States. In The Immigration Crisis, the political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at 400 years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which immigrants have been received. The book provides a political, historical, and theoretical examination of the laws, personalities, organizations, events, and demographics that have shaped four centuries of immigration and led to the widespread social crisis that today divides citizens, non-citizens, regions, and political parties. As a prominent activist, Navarro has participated broadly in the Mexican-American community's responses to the problems of immigration and integration, and his book also provides a powerful glimpse into the actual working of Hispanic social movements. In a sobering conclusion, Navarro argues that the immigration crisis is inextricably linked to the globalization of capital and the American economy's dependence on cheap labor.

Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Immigration Crisis
• CHAPTER 1 Exodus to the New World and the U.S. Immigration Experience (30,000 BC–1930s)
• CHAPTER 2 U.S. Occupation of Aztlán and Rise of México’s Migrant Exodus (1848–1940)
• CHAPTER 3 Era of the Bracero Program and Resurgent Nativism (1942–1964)
• CHAPTER 4 Re-Mexicanization of Aztlán and Immigration Reform Intensify (1965–1989)
• CHAPTER 5 Decade of Growing Nativism, Xenophobia, and Militarization of the Cactus Curtain (1990–1999)
• CHAPTER 6 Arizona’s Nativist Armed Rancher Vigilantes and Militias (1999–2004)
• CHAPTER 7 Minuteman Project and Nativist Anti-Migrant Movement (2005–2007)
• CHAPTER 8 Militias, Anti-Immigrant Hate Groups, and Nativism on the Rise (2005–2007)
• CHAPTER 9 Mexicanos’ Response to the Rancher Vigilante and Militia Crisis (2000–2005)
• CHAPTER 10 NAHR’s Struggle Against the Raids and Minuteman Project (2004–2005)
• CHAPTER 11 The Restrictionist Nativist Legislative Surge (2004–2007)
• CHAPTER 12 Rise of the Countervailing Movimiento Pro-Migrante (2006)
• CHAPTER 13 Decline of the Movimiento Pro-Migrante and its Mobilizations (2006–2007)
• EPILOGUE
• Notes
• About the Author