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  • Dreamland

    America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

    by Carly Goodman ...
    In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery was created to do just that.Dreamland ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Dreamland

    America's Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

    by Carly Goodman ...
    Narrated by Janet Metzger ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 50 min

    In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery was created to do just that.Dreamland ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Whose America?

    U.S. Immigration Policy since 1980

    by Elliott Young, Monique Laney, Yael Schacher, Leisa J Abrego, Carly Goodman, Julia Rose Kraut, Julio Capó Jr.0, Carl Bon Tempo1, Carl Lindskoog2 ...
    A centerpiece of contemporary politics, draconian immigration policies have been long in the making. Maria Cristina Garcia and Maddalena Marinari edit works that examine the post-1980 response of legislation and policy to issues like undocumented immigration, economic shifts, national security, and human rights. Contributors engage with a wide range of ideas, including the effect of the Illegal ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States

    by Danielle Battisti, S. Deborah Kang, Carly Goodman, Randa Tawil, Ashley Johnson Bavery, Mary Patrice Erdmans, Polina Ermoshkina0, Torsten Feys1, E. Kyle Romero2, Joanna Wojdon3 ...
    Series series Studies of World Migrations
    Often depicted as the nation’s iconic legal immigrant, unauthorized European migrants are often overlooked by scholars, policymakers, and the media. This volume tells the stories of European migrants who adopted irregular migration strategies to enter and remain in the United States throughout the twentieth century. Contributors explore facets of this history with essays on migration patterns from ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Fuzzy Social Choice Models

    Explaining the Government Formation Process

    by Kelly Nelson Pook, John N. Mordeson, Terry D. Clark, Carly A. Goodman, Michael B. Gibilisco, Mark J. Wierman, Peter C. Casey ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set of alternatives from which collective choices are made. The book presents empirical findings ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    A History of Xenophobia in the United States

    by Erika Lee ...
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  • Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

    by William G. Howell, Terry M. Moe ...
    To counter the threat America faces, two political scientists offer "clear constitutional solutions that break sharply with the conventional wisdom" (Steven Levitsky, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of How Democracies Die).Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Presidency of Barack Obama

    A First Historical Assessment

    Edited by Julian E. Zelizer ...
    An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historiansBarack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress, and, after the 2016 presidential election, Obama's legacy and the health of the Democratic Party ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Immigration

    Questions and Answers

    by Jane Guskin, David L. Wilson ...
    In the spring of 2006, millions of immigrants and supporters organized in cities and small towns across the United States to defend their rights following the passage of HR4437, a bill designed to punish unauthorized immigrants. In an unprecedented show of force, tens of thousands of workers marched out of meatpacking plants, factories, restaurants, landscape businesses and stores, while students ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Losing Control: How a Left-Right Coalition Blocked Immigration Reform and Provoked the Backlash That Elected Trump

    by Jerry Kammer ...
    Follow Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter Jerry Kammer as he traces the roots of America's failure to reform immigration. Losing Control tells the remarkable tale of one of the most consequential failures of governance in modern American history. It is the story of the left-right, strangest-of-bedfellows coalition of activists, ethnic groups, business interests, and civil libertarians ... Read more

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  • At War with Government

    How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump

    by Amy Fried, Douglas B. Harris ...
    Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government, the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the postwar era ... Read more

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  • The United States and International Law

    Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues

    by Lucrecia García Iommi, Richard W Maass ...
    The United States spearheaded the creation of many international organizations and treaties after World War II and maintains a strong record of compliance across several issue areas, yet it also refuses to ratify major international conventions like the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. Why does the United States ... Read more

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