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Format: 1 online resource (249 pages)

ISBN: 9781501705922 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Brown, Heath A. Immigrants and electoral politics : nonprofit organizing in a time of demographic change. Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, c2016 ISBN 9781501704833

Language: English

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ISBN: 9781501705922

Content: In Immigrants 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Political Variety and Electoral Efficacy of Immigrant Nonprofit Organizations -- , 1. The Precarious Position of Immigrants -- , 2. Foundations and Funding -- , 3. “You Don’t Vote, You Don’t Count” -- , 4. A Model of Immigrant-Serving Engagement -- , 5. From Mission to Electoral Strategy -- , 6. Choosing Where to Focus -- , Conclusion: Boldly Representing Immigrants in Tough Times -- , Technical Appendix -- , Notes -- , Works Cited -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501705922

URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501705922

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Content: 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.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2016.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9781501704833

Language: English

URL: Cornell scholarship online