ABSTRACT
Marco Antonio Rivera's Decision and Structure: US Refugee Policy in the Mariel Crisis, is a well-written and well-documented case study of the Mariel boat lift and refugee crisis of 1980 and the disjointed performance by the United States government during that crisis. Rivera's attention to the urban impact of refugee settlements and costs is also important, although somewhat abbreviated and limited by the extent to which the urban literature was not consulted. In The Paper Curtain: Employer Sanctions'Implementation, Impact, and Reform, editor Michael Fix offers us a significant collection of important Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in three cub forms: Implementing Employer Sanctions, Employer Compliance with IRCA Paperwork Requirements, and Reform Options. The authors, primarily mainstream social scientists, are experts on immigration policy and evaluative outcomes representing the Rand Corporation and the Urban Institute collaborating under a Ford Foundation grant.
