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Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses Through Regularization1
Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Immigrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization1 Cecilia Menjívar Sarah M. Lakhani University of Kansas University of California, Berkeley This article examines the enduring alterations in behaviors, practices, and self-image that immigrants’ evolving knowledge of and partici- pation in the legalization process facilitate. Relying on close to 200 interviews with immigrants from several national origin groups in Los Angeles and Phoenix, the authors identify transformations that indi- viduals enact in their intimate and in their civic lives as they come in contact with U.S. immigration law en route to and as a result of reg- ularization. Findings illustrate the power of the state to control indi- viduals’ activities and mind-sets in ways that are not explicitly formal or bureaucratic. The barriers the state creates, which push immigrants to the legal margins, together with anti-immigrant hostility, create con- ditions under which immigrants are likely to undertake transformative, lasting changes in their lives. These transformations reify notions of the deserving immigrant vis-à-vis the law, alter the legalization pro- cess for the immigrant population at large, and, ultimately, shape in- tegration dynamics. INTRODUCTION Recent scholarship has highlighted the effects of immigration law, through the legal statuses it creates, on various aspects of immigrants’ lives. Researchers 1 We would like to thank Sebástien Chauvin, Jaeeun Kim, Walter Nicholls, and Michele Waslin, as well as the AJS reviewers, for their insightful comments. We would also like to thank the audience members who commented during presentations to the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California, the Department of Sociology at UCLA, the © 2016 by The University of Chicago. -
Cokie Roberts Oral History Interview Final Edited Transcript
Cokie Roberts Congressional Correspondent and Daughter of Representatives Hale and Lindy Boggs of Louisiana Oral History Interview Final Edited Transcript May 25, 2017 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. “And so she [Lindy Boggs] was on the Banking Committee. They were marking up or writing a piece of legislation to end discrimination in lending. And the language said, ‘on the basis of race, national origin, or creed’—something like that. And as she told the story, she went into the back room and wrote in, in longhand, ‘or sex or marital status,’ and Xeroxed it, and brought it back into the committee, and said, ‘I’m sure this was just an omission on the part of my colleagues who are so distinguished.’ That’s how we got equal credit, ladies.” Cokie Roberts May 25, 2017 Table of Contents Interview Abstract i Interviewee Biography i Editing Practices ii Citation Information iii Interviewer Biographies iii Interview 1 Notes 29 Abstract On May 25, 2017, the Office of the House Historian participated in a live oral history event, “An Afternoon with Cokie Roberts,” hosted by the Capitol Visitor Center. Much of the interview focused on Cokie Roberts’ reflections of her mother Lindy Boggs whose half-century association with the House spanned her time as the spouse of Representative Hale Boggs and later as a Member of Congress for 18 years. Roberts discusses the successful partnership of her parents during Hale Boggs’ 14 terms in the House. She describes the significant role Lindy Boggs played in the daily operation of her husband’s congressional office as a political confidante and expert campaigner—a function that continued to grow and led to her overseeing much of the Louisiana district work when Hale Boggs won a spot in the Democratic House Leadership. -
Robert W. Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches MR
Robert W. Edgar, General Secretary, National Council of Churches MR. EDGAR: I'm pleased to be here, not only to say a word of focus and commitment to the legacy of Geno, but sitting side-by-9side with all of these colleagues, and especially Stu Eizenstat. Stu was the domestic policy adviser to President Carter, and I was a young congressperson elected by accident in the Watergate years, and had the chance and the opportunity for the four years of the Carter administration -- although I served for six terms -- to work with Stu on many domestic issues, especially water policy that became so controversial in those years. So it's great to reconnect with him, and it's great to be here with you. As the senator indicated, Rosa Parks died yesterday. I mark my entry into political life and the bridge between my faith life as a pastor in Philadelphia, an urban pastor, who founded the first shelter for homeless women in the city of Philadelphia, I mark my bridge from my faith tradition to politics, based on the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King. And the civil rights movement had an impact, not just on the black community but on the white community, as well. I grew up in a white suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up in a blue-collar working-class family. But I 20didn't really see poverty until I was about a senior in high school. And the United Methodist Church had what they called "come see" tours, where they literally put young people on buses and took them into the city of Philadelphia, and into the city of Chester, to see with their own eyes the impact of policies on the poor. -
How First-Term Members Enter the House Burdett
Coming into the Country: How First-Term Members Enter the House Burdett Loomis University of Kansas and The Brookings Institution November 17, 2000 In mulling over how newly elected Members of Congress (henceforth MCs1) “enter” the U.S. House of Representatives, I have been drawn back to John McPhee’s classic book on Alaska, Coming into the Country. Without pushing the analogy too far, the Congress is a lot like Alaska, especially for a greenhorn. Congress is large, both in terms of numbers (435 members and 8000 or so staffers) and geographic scope (from Seattle to Palm Beach, Manhattan to El Paso). Even Capitol Hill is difficult to navigate, as it requires a good bit of exploration to get the lay of the land. The congressional wilderness is real, whether in unexplored regions of the Rayburn Building sub-basements or the distant corridors of the fifth floor of the Cannon Office Building, where a sturdy band of first-term MCs must establish their Washington outposts. Although both the state of Alaska and the House of Representatives are governed by laws and rules, many tricks of survival are learned informally -- in a hurried conversation at a reception or at the House gym, in the wake of a pick-up basketball game. In the end, there’s no single understanding of Alaska – it’s too big, too complex. Nor is there any single way to grasp the House. It’s partisan, but sometimes resistant to partisanship. It’s welcoming and alienating. It’s about Capitol Hill, but also about 435 distinct constituencies. -
The Effects of Secret Voting Procedures on Political Behavior
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Voting Alone: The Effects of Secret Voting Procedures on Political Behavior A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science by Scott M. Guenther Committee in charge: Professor James Fowler, Chair Professor Samuel Kernell, Co-Chair Professor Julie Cullen Professor Seth Hill Professor Thad Kousser 2016 Copyright Scott M. Guenther, 2016 All rights reserved. The Dissertation of Scott M. Guenther is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication on microfilm and electronically: Co-Chair Chair University of California, San Diego 2016 iii DEDICATION To my parents. iv EPIGRAPH Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. { Benjamin Franklin v TABLE OF CONTENTS Signature Page................................... iii Dedication...................................... iv Epigraph......................................v Table of Contents.................................. vi List of Figures................................... viii List of Tables.................................... ix Acknowledgements.................................x Vita......................................... xiv Abstract of the Dissertation............................ xv Chapter 1 Introduction: Secrecy and Voting.................1 1.1 History of Secret Voting...................2 1.2 Conceptual Issues.......................5 1.2.1 Internal Secrecy....................6 1.2.2 External Secrecy...................7 1.3 Electoral Regimes.......................8 -
PEMD-94-15 Vietnamese Amerasian Resettlement I I B-247548
United States General Accounting Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters t* March 1994 VIETNAMESE AMERASIAN RESETTLEMENT Education, Employment, and Family Outcomes in the United St&es United States General Accounting Office GAO Washington, D-C. 20548 Program Evaluation and Methodology Division B-247548 March 31,1994 The Honorable Roman0 L. Mazzoli Chairman, Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge House of Representatives About 75,000 Amerasians and members of their families have left Vietnam to resettle in the United States under the provisions of what is commonly called the “Arnerasian Homecoming Act,” enacted December 1987.’ These Amerasians have special ties to the United States because their fathers were American citizens serving in Vietnam prior to 1976, and because these very ties caused them to suffer hardships and discrimination in Vietnam. You asked us to assess both the process and outcomes of resettling Vietnamese Amerasians in the United States. We reported earlier (GAO/PEMD-93-1OR) the findings from our evaluation of the process whereby eligible Amerasians and their families become participants in the resettlement program in Vietnam, receive language training and cultural orientation in the Philippines, and finally are resettled in the United States. In the present report, we focus on the outcomes for Amerasians and their families after resettlement has taken place, particularly with regard to education, employment, -
The Amerasian Paradox
Online Conference on Multidisciplinary Social Sciences – 29-31 March 2012 Australian International Cultural & Educational Institute NOTE TO CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Paper Submitted 27 Feb 2012 along with Power Point Presentation and Biographies with Photographs of Dr. P.C. Kutschera and Professor Jose Maria G. Pelayo III The Amerasian Paradox P.C. Kutschera, Ph.D. 1 and Jose Maria G. Pelayo III, MASD 2 ABSTRACT Multiple anecdotal accounts and a thin body of extant empirical research on an estimated 250,000 multiple generation, mixed-heritage military Amerasians in the Philippines, and Pan Amerasians residing in other East and Southeast Asian societies, indicates substantial past and present stigmatization and discrimination – particularly Amerasians of African descent. However, a certain segment of Filipino Amerasians, females with pronounced Caucasian features, comprise a paradoxical exception. The abandoned progeny of U.S. servicemen, corporate military contractor and government male workers who occupied permanent bases for nearly a century, Africans and to a lesser extent, Anglo Amerasians, are targets of intense name-calling, verbal harassment and occasional physical violence beginning at an early age. This often transforms into a lifetime of socioeconomic marginalization and cultural isolation. Typically, Amerasians are ridiculed because of differential skin color, facial features and the stereotypical assumption that the majority were children of sex laborers and transient soldier fathers who had forsaken them. However, there is incipient research and anecdotal accounts bolstered by this five participant, purposive sample, multiple-case “pilot” study that young adult female Anglos may have not only eluded the stigmatized fate of the majority of Filipino Amerasians, African or Anglo, but in some cases actually benefitted socioeconomically and psychologically. -
U.S. House Report 32 for H.R. 4221 (Feb 1959)
86TH CONoRESS L HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT 1st Session No. 32 HAWAII STATEHOOD FEBRUARY 11, 1959.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. AsPINALL, from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 4221] The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4221) to provide for the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. The purpose of H.R. 4221, introduced by Representative O'Brien of New York, is to provide for the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union. This bill and its two companions-H.R. 4183 by Delegate Burns and H.R. 4228 by Representative Saylor-were introduced following the committee's consideration of 20 earlier 86th Congress bills and include all amendments adopted in connection therewith. These 20 bills are as follows: H.R. 50, introduced by Delegate Burns; H.R. 324, introduced by Representative Barrett; H.R. 801, introduced by Representative Holland; H.R. 888, introduced by Representative O'Brien of New York; H.R. 954, introduced by Representative Saylor; H.R. 959, introduced by Representative Sisk; H.R. 1106, introduced by Representative Berry; H.R. 1800, introduced by Repre- sentative Dent; H.R. 1833, introduced by Representative Libonati; H.R. 1917, introduced by Representative Green of Oregon; H.R. 1918, introduced by Representative Holt; H.R. 2004, introduced by Representative Younger; .H.R. -
Congressional Overspeech
ARTICLES CONGRESSIONAL OVERSPEECH Josh Chafetz* Political theater. Spectacle. Circus. Reality show. We are constantly told that, whatever good congressional oversight is, it certainly is not those things. Observers and participants across the ideological and partisan spectrums use those descriptions as pejorative attempts to delegitimize oversight conducted by their political opponents or as cautions to their own allies of what is to be avoided. Real oversight, on this consensus view, is about fact-finding, not about performing for an audience. As a result, when oversight is done right, it is both civil and consensus-building. While plenty of oversight activity does indeed involve bipartisan attempts to collect information and use that information to craft policy, this Article seeks to excavate and theorize a different way of using oversight tools, a way that focuses primarily on their use as a mechanism of public communication. I refer to such uses as congressional overspeech. After briefly describing the authority, tools and methods, and consensus understanding of oversight in Part I, this Article turns to an analysis of overspeech in Part II. The three central features of overspeech are its communicativity, its performativity, and its divisiveness, and each of these is analyzed in some detail. Finally, Part III offers two detailed case studies of overspeech: the Senate Munitions Inquiry of the mid-1930s and the McCarthy and Army-McCarthy Hearings of the early 1950s. These case studies not only demonstrate the dynamics of overspeech in action but also illustrate that overspeech is both continuous across and adaptive to different media environments. Moreover, the case studies illustrate that overspeech can be used in the service of normatively good, normatively bad, and * Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. -
U.S. House Report 32 for H.R. 4221
2d Session No. 1564 AMENDING CERTAIN LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES IN LIGHT OF THE ADMISSION OF TIlE STATE OF HAWAII INTO THE UNION MAY 2, 1960.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. O'BRIEN of New York, from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 116021 The Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, to whom was re- ferred the bill (H.R. 11602) to amend certain laws of the United States in light of the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. INTRODUCTION IT.R. 11602 was introduced by Representative Inouye after hearings on five predecessor bills (H.R. 10434 by Representative. Aspinall, H.R. 10443 by Congressman Inouye, H.R. 10456 by Representative O'Brien of New York, H.R. 10463 by Representative Saylor, and H.R. 10475 by Representative Westland). H.R. 11602 includes the amend- ments agreed upon in committee when H.R. 10443 was marked up. All of the predecessor bills except H.R. 10443 were identical and were introduced as a result of an executive communication from the Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget dated February 12, 1960, en- closing a draft of a bill which he recommended be enacted. This draft bill had been prepared after consultation with all agencies of t.th executive branch administering Federal statutes which were, or might be thought to have been, affected by the admission of Iawaii into the Union on August 24, 1959. -
UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations
UCLA UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Pluralistic Realities and Tenuous Paradigms: Critical Examinations of Race and "Normativity" in Japanese/American Multiethnic and Multiracial History Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4j3997h8 Author Ong, James Man Publication Date 2014 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Pluralistic Realities and Tenuous Paradigms: Critical Examinations of Race and “Normativity” in Japanese/American Multiethnic and Multiracial History A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Asian American Studies by James Man Ong 2014 © Copyright by James Man Ong 2014 ABSTRACT OF THIS THESIS Pluralistic Realities and Tenuous Paradigms: Critical Examinations of Race and “Normativity” in Japanese/American Multiethnic and Multiracial History By James Man Ong Master of Arts in Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Chair In both the US and Japan in recent decades, multiethnicity has become an increasingly significant phenomenon for Japanese/Americans. Though relative minorities in the past, mixed individuals have become an emerging demographic as successive generations of individuals of Japanese and non-Japanese ancestry have transgressed social barriers, ethnic racial boundaries and national divides, blending diverse ancestries and cultures into unique syntheses. While individuals -
STATE of HAWAII DEPARTMENT of LAND and NATURAL RESOURCES Land Division Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 June 23, 2017 Board of Land and Na
STATE OF HAWAII DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES Land Division Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 June 23, 2017 Board of Land and Natural Resources PSF No.: 16SD-160 State of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii OAHU Issuance of Right-of-Entry Permit to United States on Encumbered Land Onshore at Makua Beach and Unencumbered Submerged Lands Offshore of Makua Beach at Kahanahaiki, Waianae, Island of Oahu, Tax Map Key: (1) 8-1-001 :portion of 008 and seaward of 008. APPLICANT: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District LEGAL REFERENCE: Sections 171-55, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended. LOCATION: Portion of Government fast lands at Makua Beach, Kaena Point State Park, and submerged lands offshore of Makua Beach, Kahanahaiki, Waianae, Island of Oahu, identified by Tax Map Key: (1) 8-1-001: portion of 008 and (1) 8-1-001: seaward of 008, as shown on the attached map labeled Exhibit A. AREA: Fast lands: 6.9 acres, more or less, TMK (1) 8-1-008-1:portion of 008. Submerged lands: 20 acres, more or less, seaward of TMK (1) 8-1-008-1:008. ZONING: State Land Use District: Conservation City & County of Honolulu CZO: N A D-9 BLNR - Issuance of ROE to Page 2 June 23, 2017 United States for Submerged Land TRUST LAND STATUS: Section 5(b) lands of the Hawaii Admission Act. DHHL 3000 entitlement lands pursuant to the Hawaii State Constitution: YES NO X CURRENT USE STATUS: Fast lands: Set aside by Governor’s Executive Order 3338 for Kaena Point State Park. Submerged lands: Unencumbered.