Minutes: Executive Committee Meeting

Ross, Helen

doi:10.1037/e413212005-007

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“…In 1955, the CSO formed “a special legislative committee,” including Tony Rios, Gil Anaya, and Bob G. Gonzales, “to renew action on proposed legislation” to expand OAA. Gonzales “made three trips to Sacramento to lobby for this bill.… Because of lobbying action by all of the California [CSO] chapters, the bill progressed much further than it did in 1953” (Ross 1955).…”

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Save Our Senior Noncitizens: Extending Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935–71

Fox

2020

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When do states grant social rights to noncitizens? I explore this question by examining the extension of Old Age Assistance (OAA) to noncitizens after the passage of the 1935 Social Security Act. While the act contained no alienage-based restrictions, states were permitted to bar noncitizens from means-tested programs. In 1939, 31 states had alienage restrictions for OAA. By 1971, when the Supreme Court declared state-level alienage restrictions unconstitutional, only eight states still did. States with more Mexicans and Asians were slower to repeal restriction, however. Using in-depth case studies of New York, California, and Texas, I demonstrate the importance of federal and state institutional arrangements and immigrant political power for the extension of social rights to noncitizens. I also show that to secure access to OAA, immigrant advocates adapted their strategies to match the institutional and political context.

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Save Our Senior Noncitizens: Extending Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935–71

Fox

2020

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Save Our Senior Noncitizens: Extending Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935–71

Save Our Senior Noncitizens: Extending Old Age Assistance to Immigrants in the United States, 1935–71

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