Immigrant rights protection serves as a barometer of local working-class rights

Evidence

The protection of (the rights accorded) immigrants constitutes not only an important register of “the vigor of citizenship,” as Balibar puts it in We, the People of Europe?, but also an abstract yet vital metric of the status, the rights, of the local working classes. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 935

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Milgrom’s point that trade institutions for outsiders correlate with community-wide trust norms; also connects to social capital dynamics. — connects to: Immigrant rights double as the metric of native working-class citizenship vigor — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 935