Taking local control : immigration policy activism in U.S. cities and states / Monica W. Varsanyi, editor.

"Published in association with the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immigration policy activism in U.S. states and cities : interdisciplinary perspectives / Monica W. Varsanyi -- Legal limits on immigration federalism / Cristina M. Rodrøguez, Muzaffar Chishti, and Kimberly Nortman -- Immigration and local governments : inclusionary local policies in the era of state rescaling / Pablo A. Mitnik and Jessica Halpern-Finnerty -- Partisanship, not Spanish : explaining municipal ordinances affecting undocumented immigrants / S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Tom Wong -- Immigration enforcement by state and local police : the impact on the enforcers and their communities / Michele Waslin -- The public policy implications of state-level worksite migration enforcement : the experiences of Arizona, Mississippi, and Illinois / Marc Rosenblum and Leo Gorman -- City ordinances as "immigration policing by proxy" : local governments and the regulation of undocumented day laborers / Monica W. Varsanyi -- Neoliberalism, community development, and anti-immigrant backlash in Hazleton, Pennsylvania / Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Jamie Longazel -- Localized immigration policy : the view from a new immigrant gateway, Charlotte, North Carolina / Owen Furuseth and Heather Smith -- Growing pains: local response to recent immigrant settlement in suburban Washington DC / Jill H. Wilson, Audrey Singer, and Brooke DeRenzis -- Local immigration policy and global ambitions in Vancouver and Phoenix / Doris Marie Provine -- All immigration politics is local : the day labor ordinance in Vista, California / Michael S. Danielson -- The "law and order" foundation of local ordinances : a four locale study of Hazleton, Pennsylvania; Escondido, California; Farmers Branch, Texas; and Prince William County, Virginia / Jill Esbenshade, Benjamin Wright, Paul Cortopassi, Arthur Reed, and Jerry Flores -- "Tired of illegals" : immigrant driver's licenses, constituent letters, and shifting restrictionist discourse in California / Hinda Seif.