Els de Graauw, Professor of Political Science at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and co-author Shannon Gleeson, have just released their new book, Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston with Temple University Press.
The book explores how the diverse city of Houston navigates the challenges of advancing immigrant rights within the context of a politically mixed, organizationally underserved, and largely anti-immigrant state. Focusing on issues such as local law enforcement’s interactions with federal immigration officials, local public-private partnerships around federal immigration benefits, the development of a city immigrant affairs office, and collaborations to combat wage theft, the book offers new insights into the complex dynamics shaping immigrant rights policies today.
This work will be of particular interest to scholars and practitioners in the fields of immigration, urban politics, and civil society.
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The latest Urban Affairs Review podcast also features the book. Listen to it here.
