Education
- Ph.D. University of California, Irvine (2002).
Lina Newton
Associate Professor
Lina Newton is an associate professor in the Political Science Department at Hunter College, and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Women and Gender Studies. She specializes in American Politics, Public Policy, Minority Politics, and Immigration Policy.
See Contact DetailsSelected Publications
- “Congress and Immigration Reform: Is Now the Time? Extensions: Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. University of Oklahoma. (2013)
- Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant: The Politics of Immigration Reform (New York: New York University Press, 2008).
- “‘It is Not a Question of Being Anti-immigration’: Categories of Deservedness in Immigration Policymaking,” in A.Schneider and H. Ingram eds. Deserving and Entitled: Social Constructions and Public Policy (SUNY Press 2005).
- “Why Some Latinos Supported Proposition 187: Testing the Economic Threat and Cultural Identity Hypotheses,” Social Science Quarterly 81(1) (2000): 180-193.