Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

Ruth Gomberg-Munoz of Loyola University Chicago reviews Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s. This book  is an informative and highly readable analysis of the discourse surrounding US immigration policy reforms in the mid-1990s. The central argument of this book is that debates over US immigration legislation in the 1990s must be understood as part of a broader expansion of neoliberal policy and thought in the United States. Drawing on legislative transcripts and media reports, Gerken produces a highly detailed, yet accessibly written text that should be useful to both scholars and students of US immigration politics, as well as to immigration practitioners and policy advocates.

Read the book review at https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12216.