Anti-Immigration Ordinances in NC: Ramifications for Local Governance and Planning
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Nguyen, Mai Thi
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
- Abstract
- Over the past five years, Hispanic immigration has hit a critical mass in North Carolina as a result of explosive population growth among immigrant populations. This is especially true in the State’s smaller towns, many of which had a minimal number of immigrants until recently. In an effort to address the perceived social ills associated with large numbers of undocumented, foreign immigrants, several of North Carolina’s towns and counties have passed explicitly anti-immigrant ordinances, including the following: requiring English to be used when public employees are conducting business and governmental duties; denying benefits and services to undocumented immigrants; imposing sanctions and fines on employers and landlords; and training local law enforcement officials to become “immigration agents.”
- Date of publication
- 2007
- DOI
- Resource type
- Article
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- In Copyright
- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 32
- Journal issue
- 2
- Page start
- 36
- Page end
- 46
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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