Temporary Fixes, Permanent Problems: Implications of the Growing Reliance on Liminal Status in U.S. Immigration Policy.
Record migrant inflows in the post‐pandemic period have brought renewed attention to the problems associated with temporary fixes to immigration policy. In response to surges of vulnerable migrants and because of the failure to enact legislative change, multiple presidential administrations devised...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 181 - 194 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2025
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