Arizona firestorm : global immigration realities, national media, and provincial politics / [edited by] Otto Santa Ana and Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante.

Includes index.

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List of Tables and Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. BACKGROUND; 1. Arizona's Provincial Responses to its Global Immigration Challenges: Introduction to Arizona Firestorm; 2. Arizona and the Making of a State of Exclusion, 1912-2012; 3. A Chronology of Exclusion in Arizona and the United States, 1880-2011; 4. The Economic Impact of Immigrants in Arizona; Part II. FIRESTORM; 5. Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Politics through Immigration Law; 6. Assault on Ethnic Studies; 7. From Gonzales to Flores: A Return to the "Mexican Room"?

8. Illegal Accents: Qualifications, Discrimination, and Distraction in Arizona's Monitoring of Teachers9. An Immigration Crisis in a Nation of Immigrants: Why Amending the Fourteenth Amendment Won't Solve Our Problems; Part III. MASS MEDIA ROLES; 10. National Perspectives on State Turmoil: Characteristics of Elite U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Arizona SB 1070; 11. Not Business as Usual. Spanish-Language Television Coverage of Arizona's Immigration Law, April-May 2010; 12. Between Heroes and Victims: Mexican Newspaper Narrative Framing of Migration; Part IV. PROSPECTS.

13. Immigration in the Age of Global Vertigo14. Can America Learn to Think Globally? We Don't at Our Own Risk; Index; About the Contributors.

Arizona Firestorm brings together well respected experts from across the political spectrum to examine and contextualize the political, economic, historical, and legal issues prompted by this and other anti-Latino and anti-immigrant legislation and state actions. It also addresses the media's role in shaping immigration discourse in Arizona and elsewhere.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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