Unintended Consequences
The Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758021 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Davis Graham (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 898-912 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764298041007004 |
| OpenAlex | W2094422159 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
In the 1990s, political opposition in the United States rose against two government policies not previously linked in policy rationale or public debate: affirmative action preferences and large-scale immigration. Historically, reform movements in civil rights and immigration policy had differed significantly in their coalition base, reformist goals, rationales for government intervention, patterns of agency implementation, and communities of policy expertise. Yet both reform drives, sharing common foundations in liberal nondiscrimination theory and constitutional tradition, won major legislative victories in the 1960s. These laws produced unintended consequences: hard affirmative action programs involving minority preferences and mass immigration from developing nations. Immigrants were participating increasingly as minorities eligible for affirmative action remedies originally developed to compensate African Americans for past discrimination under slavery and segregation. These consequences help to explain the rise of intraminority tensions and White native opposition
Affirmative action · Civil society · Immigration · Immigration policy · Immigration reform · Legislature · Opposition (politics) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The civil rights era
Alien nation
The new Americans
Civic Ideals
Civic Ideals
The Economics of Immigration
Still the Golden Door
The Ironies of Affirmative Action
The Politics of Rapid Legal Change
Presumptions for Preferences
Race, History, and Policy
The Case against Immigration
Soothing the Establishment
When Work Disappears
Deconstructing the Affirmative Action Categories
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 1998 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |