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Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens

The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

By: Christina Gerken

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Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens

The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

By: Christina Gerken

During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens examines the changing debates around immigration that preceded and followed the passage of landmark legislation by the U.S. Congress in the mid-1990s, arguing that it represented a new, neoliberal way of thinking and talking about immigration. Christina Gerken explores the content and the social implications of the deliberations that surrounded the development and passage of immigration reform, analyzing a wide array of writings from congressional debates and committee reports to articles and human-interest stories in mainstream newspapers. The process, she shows, disguised its underlying racism by creating discursive strategies that shaped and upheld an image of “desirable” immigrants—those who could demonstrate “personal responsibility” and an ability to contribute to the U.S. economy. Gerken finds that politicians linked immigration to complex issues: poverty, welfare reform, so-called family values, measures designed to combat terrorism, and the spiraling costs of social welfare programs. Although immigrants were often at the center of congressional debates, politicians constructed an elaborate, abstract terminology that appeared to be unrelated to race or gender. Instead, politicians promoted neoliberal policies as the avenue to a postracist, postsexist world of opportunity for every rational consumer with an entrepreneurial spirit. Still, Gerken concludes that the passage of pathbreaking legislation was characterized by a useful tension between neoliberal assumptions and hidden anxieties about race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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0816686351

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Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

By: Brandt-Kobele, Oda-Christina

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Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

By: Brandt-Kobele, Oda-Christina

Previous studies on the acquisition of verb inflection in normally developing children have revealed an astonishing pattern: children use correctly inflected verbs in their own speech but fail to make use of verb inflections when comprehending sentences uttered by others. Thus, a three-year old might well be able to say something like ‘The cat sleeps on the bed’, but fails to understand that the same sentence, when uttered by another person, refers to only one sleeping cat but not more than one. The previous studies that have examined children's comprehension of verb inflections have employed a variant of a picture selection task in which the child was asked to explicitly indicate (via pointing) what semantic meaning she had inferred from the test sentence. Recent research on other linguistic structures, such as pronouns or focus particles, has indicated that earlier comprehension abilities can be found when methods are used that do not require an explicit reaction, like preferential looking tasks. This dissertation aimed to examine whether children are truly not able to understand the connection the the verb form and the meaning of the sentence subject until the age of five years or whether earlier comprehension can be found when a different measure, preferential looking, is used. Additionally, children's processing of subject-verb agreement violations was examined. The three experiments of this thesis that examined children's comprehension of verb inflections revealed the following: German-speaking three- to four-year old children looked more to a picture showing one actor when hearing a sentence with a singular inflected verb but only when their eye gaze was tracked and they did not have to perform a picture selection task. When they were asked to point to the matching picture, they performed at chance-level. This pattern indicates asymmetries in children's language performance even within the receptive modality. The fourth experiment examined sensitivity to subject-verb agreement violations and did not reveal evidence for sensitivity toward agreement violations in three- and four-year old children, but only found that children's looking patterns were influenced by the grammatical violations at the age of five. The results from these experiments are discussed in relation to the existence of a production-comprehension asymmetry in the use of verb inflections and children's underlying grammatical knowledge.

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Universitätsverlag Potsdam

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3869562161

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EU Counter-Terrorist Policies and Fundamental Rights

The Case of Individual Sanctions

By: Christina Eckes

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EU Counter-Terrorist Policies and Fundamental Rights

The Case of Individual Sanctions

By: Christina Eckes

Of individual sanctions could comply with general principles of EU law. Readership: Academics, graduate students, and practitioners interested in sanctions against individuals.

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Oxford University Press

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019957376X

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Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens

The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

By: Christina Gerken

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The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

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Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens

Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens

Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

Comprehension of verb inflection in German-speaking children

EU Counter-Terrorist Policies and Fundamental Rights

EU Counter-Terrorist Policies and Fundamental Rights

Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens

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