naa a22 4500 51080926X CHVBK 20180411083434.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12134-012-0255-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12134-012-0255-3 Pottie-Sherman Yolande Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, V6T 1Z2, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada aut Talent for Citizenship and the American Dream: the USA as Outlier in the Global Race for Talent [Elektronische Daten] [Yolande Pottie-Sherman] The failed 2007 US Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA) included a "points-based system,” a proposal to shift toward supply-driven, merit-based selection. In an intensely polemic environment, this largely Republican initiative was opposed strongly by Democrats who argued that skill-based selection would weaken the traditional moral foundation of the USA, enshrined in its policy of family reunification. Through critical discourse analysis of policy documents and political rhetoric on the floor of the Senate during the CIRA debate, I explore the complexity of the relationship between neoliberalism, race, and immigration policy in the USA. I argue that the points-based system, which would severely disadvantage immigrants from the global south, became a foil for talk about Latino migration. The CIRA debate demonstrates the conflict in the USA between a need for (unskilled) labor and a nation-building project that excludes Latino migrants. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Neoliberalism nationallicence Immigration nationallicence Race nationallicence Illegality nationallicence US nationallicence Nation building nationallicence Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/3(2013-08-01), 557-575 1488-3473 14:3<557 2013 14 12134 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0255-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0255-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pottie-Sherman Yolande Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, V6T 1Z2, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/3(2013-08-01), 557-575 1488-3473 14:3<557 2013 14 12134 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer