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Immigrants and Electoral Politics
2016
Overview
InImmigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend to register and vote at low rates, thereby limiting the political power of many of their communities. In an attempt to boost electoral participation through mobilization, some nonprofits adopt multifaceted political strategies including registering new voters, holding candidate forums, and phone banking to increase immigrant voter turnout. Other nonprofits opt to barely participate at all in electoral politics, preferring to advance the immigrant community by providing exclusively social services.
Brown interviewed dozens of nonprofit leaders and surveyed hundreds of organizations. To capture the breadth of the immigrant experience, Brown selected organizations operating in traditional centers of immigration as well as new gateways for immigrants across the South: Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and, North Carolina. The stories that emerge from his research include incredible successes in mobilizing immigrant communities, including organizations that registered sixty thousand new immigrant voters in New York. They also reveal efforts to suppress nonprofit voter mobilization in Florida and describe the organizational response to hate crimes directed at immigrants in Illinois.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Community organization -- United States
/ DISCRIMINATION & RACE RELATIONS
/ Immigrants -- Political activity -- United States
/ Immigrants -- Services for -- United States
/ Nonprofit organizations -- Political activity -- United States
/ nonprofit voter mobilization
/ Political participation -- United States
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
/ United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects
ISBN
9781501704833, 1501704834, 9781501704840, 1501704842, 9781501706479, 1501706470, 9781501705922, 150170592X
