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22 Suffolk Transnat'l L. Rev. 775 (1998-1999)
Immigrants Out: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States

handle is hein.journals/sujtnlr22 and id is 781 raw text is: IMMIGRANTS OUT!: THE NEW NATIVISM AND THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT IMPULSE IN THE UNITED STATES' Juan F. Perea, editor.' New York: New York University Press, 1997. 1. INTRODUCTION In his new book, Immigrants Out!.: The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States, editor Juan F. Perea has compiled a series of essays written by diverse authors on perhaps the most politically and legally volatile issue of the 1990s.' Perea and the book's contri- butors concur in the view that current efforts to enact more restrictive immigration laws are rooted mainly in ignorance, bigotry, and political expediency.4 Perea and the contributors view the current wave of immigrants, many of whom are natives of Third World countries, as an asset, not as a liability.5 The authors liken those politi- cians and scholars who advocate more restrictive immigra- tion laws to earlier nativist Americans who protested the waves of European immigrants at the turn of the century.6 The book attempts to expose the sinister motive of those 1. JUAN F. PEREA, IMMIGRANTS OUT!: THE NEW NATIVISM AND THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT IMPULSE IN THE UNITED STATES (Juan F. Perea ed., 1997) (hereinafter IMMIGRANTS OUT!). 2. Juan F. Perea is a Professor of Law at the University of South Florida College of Law. He has written extensively on American multilingualism, lan- guage policy, nativism, ethnic identity, and American law. 3. See IMMIGRANTS OUT!, supra note 1, at xiii-xv (listing contributors and their credentials). Some contributing authors include: Raymond Tatalovich, a Professor of Political Science at Loyola University, Chicago, who writes a chapter on the Official English movement; Thomas Muller, a private practice economist and consultant, who writes a chapter on contemporary nativism; Jean Stefanic, a Research Associate at the University of Colorado School of Law, who writes a chapter on the funding of the nativist movement; Linda Bosni- ak, an Associate Professor of Law at the Rutgers School of Law, Camden, who writes a chapter on California's Proposition 187; and Daniel Kanstroom, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Boston College Law School, who consid- ers the impact and rhetoric of immigration restrictionist Peter Brimelow's con- troversial book, Alien Nation. 4. See IMMIGRANTS OUT!, supra note 1, at 6-8 (describing pernicious intent of immigration restrictionists). 5. See infra notes 18-19 and accompanying text (describing United States as nation built by immigrants). 6. See IMMIGRANTS OUT!, supra note 1, at 8 (making historical compari-

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