Arizona Firestorm: Global Immigration Realities, National Media, and Provincial Politics [Hardcover]

In 2010, the governor of Arizona signed a controversial immigration bill (SB 1070) that led to a news media frenzy, copycat bills in twenty-two states, and a U.S. Supreme Court battle that put Arizona at the cross-hairs of the immigration debate. Arizona Firestorm brings together well-respected experts from across the political spectrum to examine and contextualize the political, economic, historical, and legal issues prompted by this and other anti-Latino and anti-immigrant legislation and state actions. It also addresses the news medias role in shaping immigration discourse in Arizona and around the globe. Arizona is a case study of the roots and impact of the 21st century immigration challenge. Arizona Firestorm will be of interest to scholars and students in communication, public policy, state politics, federalism, and anyone interested in immigration policy or Latino politics.

Celeste Gonz?lez de Bustamante is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona and an affiliated faculty at the Center for Latin American Studies. She has been an academic fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University, and research fellow at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, and is a founding member of the binational academic and professional organization, Border Journalism Network/La red de periodismo de la frontera. For 15 years prior to entering the academy, Gonz?lez de Bustamante reported and produced commercial and public television news, covering politics and the U.S.-Mexico border. She is the author of Muy buenas noches : Mexico, Television, and the Cold War.

Otto Santa Ana, born, raised and educated in Arizona, is Associate Professor in Chicana & Chicano Studies at UCLA. One strand of his scholarship focuses on how mass media reproduce societal inequity. The American Political Science Association recognized his first book, Brown Tide Rising: Metaphoric Representations of Latinos in Contemporary Pull