Mothers without citizenship : Asian immigrant families and the consequences of welfare reform

Mothers without citizenship : Asian immigrant families and the consequences of welfare reform /

Lynn Fujiwara reveals a neglected aspect of the Asian immigrant story: the ill effects of welfare reform on Asian immigrant women and families. Fujiwara argues that these measures redefined immigrants as outsiders whose lack of citizenship was used to deem them ineligible for public benefits. At onc...

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Main Author: Fujiwara, Lynn, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Women immigrants > Services for > United States.
Asian American women > Services for > United States.
Children of immigrants > Services for > United States.
Public welfare > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Children of immigrants > Services for
Public welfare
Women immigrants > Services for
United States
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : sanctioning immigrants : "ending welfare as we know it"
  • New nativism and welfare reform: Asian immigrants as racialized foreigners
  • Welfare reform and the politics of citizenship
  • Refugees betrayed
  • The rush for citizenship : naturalization as a technocratic apparatus of exclusion
  • On not making ends meet : mothers without citizenship
  • The devaluation of immigrant families
  • Conclusion : the continuing significance of racialized citizenship.

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