Education

Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America

Fanny Lauby of William Paterson University, reviews Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales. This vivid ethnography explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, despite the...

Building Structures of Solidarity and Instruments of Justice: The Catholic Immigrant Integration Surveys

In this report, CMS details findings from two surveys distributed to two broad sets of US Catholic institutions – (1) Catholic social and charitable agencies and (2) parishes and schools – to capture their work in helping integrate immigrants in the United States.

New from IMR: Immigrant Experiences in North America, Western Europe and Australia

The fall 2016 edition of the International Migration Review (IMR) is now available online and in print through paid or institutional subscription. This edition includes a series of papers on immigrants in Western Europe, including a paper on the educational performance of immigrants in Western European countries and papers on variables that influence anti-immigrant attitudes. Other articles explore immigrant experiences in North America and Australia, including participation in unions, educational expectations and attainment, health, and factors that help or hinder US undocumented youth in applying for temporary relief from deportation through Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The edition also includes eight new book reviews which, as always, are open access (freely available) for three years from the date of publication.

Latinos: Remaking America

Patricia Landolt of University of Toronto, reviews Latinos: Remaking America, by M. M. Suárez-Orozco, and M. M. Páez. This book questions what academics know and need to know about the Latino population in the United States. The book is broken down into several...

Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America’s Immigration Story

Elizabeth Zanoni of Old Dominion University reviews Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream: Shaping America’s Immigration Story. This book is a welcome and invaluable collection for scholars and students of immigration and US history. Editors Alan Kraut and David Gerber recognize...

American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration

Hinda Seif, of the University of California, Berkeley, reviews American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration, by Nancy Foner. The book discusses anthropology’s distinctive role in the study of migration and how the field can contribute to migration as an academic...

Multiculturalism in a Global Society

Ewald R. Engelen, Professor of Geography at the University of Amsterdam, reviews Multiculturalism in a Global Society, by Peter Kivisto. The book argues that the separation of the concepts ethnicity and nationality lead to a globalized society. It focuses on the...

The Suffering of the Immigrant

Jeffrey M. Togman, Professor of Political Science and Film at Seton Hall University, reviews The Suffering of the Immigrant, by Abdelmalek Sayad. The book is about immigration from the sending country’s perspective, rather than the receiving country’s perspective, which is more...

Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement

Siobhan McEvoy-Levy, Professor of Political Science at Butler University, reviews Children and Youth on the Front Line: Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement, by Jo Boyden and Joanna de Berry. The book is about the experience of minors in conflict as well...

A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations, and Migration

Nestor Rodriguez, Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston, reviews A Century of Chicano History: Empire, Nations, and Migration, by Gilbert G. Gonzalez and Raul A. Fernandez. The book argues that Chicano history should be examined from the perspective of...