Immigration in the Court of Public Opinion

by Morris S. Levy, Matthew Wright, Jack Citrin

Book Overview

What does a nation of immigrants think and feel about immigration? Recent accounts of immigration policy routinely cast Americans as divided into two warring camps - one fueled by threat to livelihoods and way of life, the other by a fervent cosmopolitanism that sees the nation-state as pass?.

This counter-intuitive book shows that these accounts miss the mark. First, almost all Americans hold a mix of pro- and anti-immigrant opinions. Their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509550690
• ISBN13: 9781509550692
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.3"