The End of Compassion

This book brings together the most recent and the most comprehensive collection of articles on a population at risk: the children of immigrants in the United States, especially those children whose parents came to the country without legal authorization.

Autorentext

Alejandro Portes is Professor of Sociology (Emeritus) at Princeton University, USA, and Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Miami, USA.

Patricia Fernández-Kelly is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Migration and Development, Princeton University, USA.

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Preface

Introduction: Bifurcated immigration and the end of compassion

Alejandro Portes

1. Creating the exclusionist society: from the War on Poverty to the war on immigrants

Douglas S. Massey

2. The students we share: falling through the cracks on both sides of the US-Mexico border

Patricia Gándara

3. DACAmented in the age of deportation: navigating spaces of belonging and vulnerability in social and personal lives

Roberto G. Gonzales, Kristina Brant and Benjamin Roth

4. An imperfect realignment: the movement of children of immigrants and their families from the United States to Mexico

Rubén Hernández-León, Víctor Zúñiga and Sarah M. Lakhani

5. Hope turned sour: second-generation incorporation and mobility in U.S. new immigrant destinations

Helen B. Marrow

6. Integrating Hispanic immigrant youth: perspectives from white and black Americans in emerging Hispanic communities and schools

Krista M. Perreira, Stephanie Potochnick and M. Priscilla Brietzke

7. The value of reproduction: multiple livelihoods, cultural labor, and immigrants in Iowa and North Carolina

David Griffith

8. Infrastructures of repression and resistance: how Tennesseans respond to the immigration enforcement regime

Meghan Conley and Jon Shefner

9. The integration paradox: contrasting patterns in adaptation among immigrant children in Central New Jersey

Patricia Fernández-Kelly

10. Coming of age before the great expulsion: the story of the CILS-San Diego sample 25 years later

Cynthia Feliciano and Rubén G. Rumbaut

11. The changing U.S. Latinx immigrant population: demographic trends with implications for employment, schooling, and population Integration

Richard Durán

12. The model minority stereotype and the national identity question: the challenges facing Asian immigrants and their children

Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III