Race, Legal Status & Social Mobility
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Abstract In this essay, we review what is known about the role of race and legal status in incorporation immigrants twenty-first-century America. While ethnicity matter social mobility immigrants, racialization not impassable stumbling block critical theory predicts. The research paints a remarkably consistent picture intergenerational socioeconomic progress, one that very similar to happened with from Europe century ago. This accelerated for Asians Blacks, but slower among Latinxs. Legal increasingly integration affects both undocumented their citizen children. intersect, conclude now playing relatively autonomous limiting life chances many immigrants. We raise alarm only direct effects status, its increasing racializing excluding Latinx Americans.
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عنوان ژورنال: Daedalus
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1548-6192', '0011-5266']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01850