Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas

Introduction; Steven W. Bender and William F. Arrocha.- Part I. So Far From Compassion: The U.S.-Centric and Exclusionary Framework of Current and Past Immigration Policy, Steven W. Bender.- Chapter 1. The Power of Exclusion: Congress, Courts, and the Plenary Power; Victor C. Romero.- Chapter 2. The Subnational Response: Local Intervention in Immigration Policy and Enforcement; Karla McKanders.- Chapter 3. Federal Regulatory Policymaking and Enforcement of Immigration Law; Bill Ong Hing.- Chapter 4. Short-Hoeing the Long Row of Bondage: From Braceros to Compassionate Farm Worker Migration; Gilbert Paul Carrasco.- Part II. Exploring New Spaces for Dialogue and Regional Cooperation in the Americas to Protect Migrants' Human Rights; William F. Arrocha.- Chapter 5. The Need for a Compassionate Migration Regime for North and Central America: Restoring and Extending Universal Human Rights to Migrant Workers, Their Families, and "Survival Migrants"; William F. Arrocha.- Chapter 6. The Challenges and Potential of a Universal Human Rights Regime to Manage Migration in the Americas; Raquel Aldana.- Chapter 7. The Response of Government and Organized Civil Society to the Nightmare of U.S. Deportations of Mexican Migrant Women; Ana Stern Leuchter.- Chapter 8. Visible and Invisible: Undocumented Migrants in Transit through Mexico; Rodolfo Casillas.- Chapter 9. Challenges in Building Institutions to Protect Transmigrants' Human Rights: The Mexican Case; Evelyn Cruz.- Chapter 10. Toward a More Compassionate Regional Migration Regime in South America; Juan Artola.- Part III. Envisioning Compassionate Migration: From Canada to Desert Trails and the Cities in Between; Steven W. Bender.- Chapter 11. Is Canada a Model for Compassionate Migration Policy?; Sasha Baglay.- Chapter 12. The Compassion of "Compassionate Migration"; John Shuford.- Chapter 13. Social Readiness: Care Ethics and Migration; Maurice Hamington.- Chapter 14. The Role of Arizona Desert Humanitarians in Compassionate Migration; Rebecca A. Fowler.- Chapter 15. Sourcing Compassionate Migration Policies: Searching for Venues of Humanity; Steven W. Bender.