Living Illegal: The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration

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Immigration has been a long-time frontrunner of political debate, especially with new draconian laws at the US-Mexico border and David Cameron's conservative attempts at reducing entry clearances into the UK. Based on oral histories, individual testimonies and years, Living Illegal' offers textured stories often lost in debate. It tells of real people working and enriching communities even as the political climate worsens. Living 'Illegal' challenges assumptions about why immigrants leave their homes, where they settle and how they have adapted to immigration ordinances.'

Reviews

"[C]ompassionate and well-reasoned . . . this book appeals to what Lincoln called 'the better angels of our nature.'"
Publishers Weekly

"[T]imely . . . a thoughtful volume that contains serious and humane suggestions for reform."
Choice

"A uniquely nuanced and human view of the unauthorized immigrants at the heart of the immigration debate."
Donald Kerwin, executive director, Center for Migration Studies

"Provides persuasive and compelling answers to all the tough questions we need to address."
Judith Adler Hellman, author of The World of Mexican Migrants

"Immigration reform has a human face. . . . This study clearly brings this to the fore and should be on the reading list of all those who . . . are interested in the immigration issue."
Roman Popadiuk, executive director, George Bush Presidential Library Foundation

Author Bio

Marie Friedmann Marquardt teaches religious studies and sociology at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. Timothy J. Steigenga is a professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida. Philip J. Williams is the director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Manuel A. Vsquez is an associate professor of religion at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.