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   Background reading:
Available through Ohiolink or may be ordered from:
http://www.ameranthassn.org/aesbook.htm :

Heyman, Josiah McC
1998 Summary of the Immigration Policy Proposal... and Chapters 4 & 5. Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy. American Ethnological Society Monographs in Human Policy Issues, 7. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.

Available in Pdf format through Ohiolink:
Heyman, Josiah McC
2002 U.S. Immigration Officers of Mexican Ancestry as Mexican Americans, Citizens and Immigration Police. Current Anthropology 43(3):479-508. Examines the theory of citizenship in terms of the careers and perspectives of Mexican American INS officers who enforce immigration law on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Heyman, Josiah McC
2000 Respect for Outsiders? Respect for the Law? The Moral Evaluation of High-Scale Issues by US Immigration Officers. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6(4):635-652.

Available at King Library:
Heyman, Josiah McC
2001 On U.S.-Mexico Border Culture. Journal of the West 40(2):50-59. A synthetic essay offering a processual, relational view of border culture with an annotated bibliography.

Mahler, Sarah J.
2001 Legalizing Moves/Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy (Book). American Ethnologist 28(4):932-935.

Available at links provided:
Heyman, Josiah McC
1994 The Mexico-United States Border in Anthropology: A Critique and Reformulation. Journal of Political Ecology 1:43-65. http://www.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_1/HEYMAN.PDF A polemic about U.S.-Mexico studies that argues for greater attention to power, states, capitalism, and inequality.

Huntington, Samuel
2004 The Hispanic Challenge. Foreign Policy, March/April:30-45.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2495&print=1&PHPSESSID=571c328238989e13d5343aeabe58a4d9

Commentary on the Huntington piece from many sources is also at:
Foreign Policy
2004. Letters. Foreign Policy, May/June:4-13 & 84-91.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2530

Available at 19 libraries through Ohiolink:
Barger, W.K. and Ernest M. Reza
1994 The FLOC Movement. Pp. 44-97. The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest: Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers. Austin, TX: University of Texas.

See also the section on immigrants' rights issues at the FLOC home page: http://www.floc.com/

The draft of the Freedom Act is at: www.iupui.edu/~jwjindy/freedom.pdf

Information on the DREAM Act is available at:
http://www.immigration.com/improving_immigration/dreamact_details.html

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