Arizona Firestorm

Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics

Edited by Otto Santa Ana, Celeste González de Bustamante

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Publication date:

07 June 2012

Length of book:

322 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442214170

In 2010, the governor of Arizona signed a controversial immigration bill (SB 1070) that led to a news media frenzy, copycat bills in twenty-two states, and a U.S. Supreme Court battle that put Arizona at the cross-hairs of the immigration debate. Arizona Firestorm brings together well-respected experts from across the political spectrum to examine and contextualize the political, economic, historical, and legal issues prompted by this and other anti-Latino and anti-immigrant legislation and state actions. It also addresses the news media’s role in shaping immigration discourse in Arizona and around the globe. Arizona is a case study of the roots and impact of the 21^st century immigration challenge. Arizona Firestorm will be of interest to scholars and students in communication, public policy, state politics, federalism, and anyone interested in immigration policy or Latino politics.

Dedication
Acknowledgments

Background
Chapter 1: Introduction to Arizona Firestorm: Provincial responses to global immigration challenges.
Otto Santa Ana

Chapter 2: Arizona and the making of a State of exclusion.
Celeste González de Bustamante

Chapter 3: Chronology of exclusion.
Celeste González de Bustamante

Chapter 4: The economic impact of immigrants in Arizona.
Judith Gans

Firestorm
Chapter 5: Arizona Senate Bill 1070: Politics through immigration law.
Gabriel J. Chin, Carissa Byrne Hessick & Marc Miller

Chapter 6: Assault on Ethnic Studies.
Anna Ochoa O'Leary, Andrea J. Romero, Nolan L. Cabrera & Michelle Rascón

Chapter 7: From Gonzales to Flores: A return to the 'Mexican Room'?
Patricia Gándara

Chapter 8: Illegal accents: Qualifications, discrimination and distraction in Arizona's monitoring of teachers.
Jennifer Leeman

Chapter 9: An immigration crisis in a nation of immigrants: Why amending the Fourteenth Amendment won't solve our problems.
Alberto R. Gonzales

Mass Media Roles
Chapter 10: National perspectives on state turmoil: Characteristics of elite U.S. newspaper coverage of Arizona SB 1070.
Manuel Chavez & Jennifer Hoewe

Chapter 11: Not business as usual: Spanish-language television coverage of Arizona's immigration law, April–May 2010.
Mercedes Vigón, Lilliam Martínez-Bustos & Celeste González de Bustamante

Chapter 12: Between heroes and victims: Mexican newspaper narrative framing of migration.
Manuel Alejandro Guerrero & Maria Eugenia Campo

Prospects
Chapter 13: Immigration in the age of global vertigo.
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco & Carola Suárez-Orozco

Chapter 14: Can America learn to think globally? We don't at our own risk.
Otto Santa Ana & Celeste González de Bustamante

Contributors
Index

Reading Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics, a scholarly compendium that explores in depth the fears, anxieties, myths and lies that resulted in SB 1070, Proposition 200 (the 2004 voter-ID law), the fight to kill ethnic studies in Tucson and the general anti-immigrant, racist atmosphere that still prevails in Jan Brewer's Arizona, I was struck by one essential truth: They can't win…. Arizona Firestorm is an essential book for our times. I'd suggest that it should be read in our public schools…