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Immigrants and Electoral Politics

Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change

By (author) Heath Brown
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, United States
Published: 31st Aug 2016
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 14mm
Weight: 394g
ISBN-10: 1501704842
ISBN-13: 9781501704840
Barcode No: 9781501704840
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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.

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In this timely, well-written book, Brown (John Jay) demonstrates the important role that nonprofit organizations play in shaping political behavior and immigrant integration.... In an era of contentious politics about immigration policy, readers will appreciate the author's treatment of the prospects for nonprofit organizations. Immigrants and Electoral Politics contributes to the theoretical and applied understanding of the ways organizations in civil society shape how and why people vote. -- T. J. Vicino, Northeastern University * Choice *