Save Our Senior Noncitizens: Extending Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935–71
| Autor: | Cybelle Fox |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050402 sociology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration Social rights Context (language use) Repeal 0506 political science Supreme court Politics 0504 sociology State (polity) Law Political science 050602 political science & public administration Social Security Act Social Sciences (miscellaneous) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Social Science History. 45:55-81 |
| ISSN: | 1527-8034 0145-5532 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/ssh.2020.40 |
| Popis: | When do states grant social rights to noncitizens? I explore this question by examining the extension of Old Age Assistance (OAA) to noncitizens after the passage of the 1935 Social Security Act. While the act contained no alienage-based restrictions, states were permitted to bar noncitizens from means-tested programs. In 1939, 31 states had alienage restrictions for OAA. By 1971, when the Supreme Court declared state-level alienage restrictions unconstitutional, only eight states still did. States with more Mexicans and Asians were slower to repeal restriction, however. Using in-depth case studies of New York, California, and Texas, I demonstrate the importance of federal and state institutional arrangements and immigrant political power for the extension of social rights to noncitizens. I also show that to secure access to OAA, immigrant advocates adapted their strategies to match the institutional and political context. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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