The New Immigration Federalism

Pratheepan Gulasekaram is Associate Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He has published widely on immigration federalism and the constitutional rights of noncitizens both in popular media platforms and prominent legal journals including the New York University Law Review. Before entering academia, Gulasekaram clerked for the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. He earned his BA at Brown University and his JD at Stanford Law School. S. Karthick Ramakrishnan is Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He directs the National Asian American Survey and has written numerous books and articles on civic participation and immigration policy. Ramakrishnan is founding editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) and is an appointee to the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs. He earned his BA at Brown University and his PhD at Princeton University.

'This book stands for many things, including a very deep and broad understanding of federalism at work in immigration policies, and the role of ethnic antipathy and ugly nativism in the inception of so many present day anti-immigrant policies and narratives. But it also stands for the value in having talented collaborators with different disciplines and literatures - political science and the law - for this is a prime example of how the sum can be greater than even the individual scholarly efforts. Gulasekaram and Ramakrishnan's model of polarized change has considerable explanatory power, and the work is a fascinating narrative.' Michael A. Olivas, author of No Undocumented Child Left Behind: Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren

• 1. Introduction; 2. Setting the stage for the new immigration federalism; 3. Rise of restrictive legislation and demographic arguments of 'vital necessity'; 4. A political theory of immigration federalism: the polarized change model and restrictive issue entrepreneurs; 5. A shifting tide in 2012: pro-integration activists gain the upper hand; 6. Implications for legal theory on federalism and immigration law; 7. Immigration federalism is here to stay; Appendix A: statistical analysis of restrictive local ordinances; Appendix B: statistical analysis of restrictive state laws; Appendix C: statistical analysis of state immigrant integration laws.