Anti-immigrant Anxieties in State Policy: The Great Recession and Punitive Immigration Policy in the American States, 2005–2012

State Politics and Policy Quarterly

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 313-339

  Ybarra, Vickie D ^a   Sanchez, Lisa M ^a   Sanchez, Gabriel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

anti immigrant anxieties; Asian; Great Recession; immigrants; immigration; Latino; state policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978699295     PISSN: 15324400     EISSN: 19461607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532440015605815     Document Type: Article

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