The US passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006 to keep out illegal immigrants across the US-Mexico border. Mendoza (sociology, Chabot College, Hayward, CA) addresses issues posed by this barrier in the tw
Since the September 11th attacks of 2001, the United States has experienced a "moral panic" involving various combinations of the media, the public, and agents of social control that has served to hel
Garcia (education, U. Southern California) presents this qualitative set of case studies on undocumented young adults pursuing a college education. The book is systematically arranged with an introduc
This volume identifies the national policies that the United States Congress has passed in order to shape migrant admissions over the years 1965-2008 and to analyze the causal reasons for the various
This is a sociological comparison of the higher education experiences of immigrant and native-born black students in the United States based on interviews conducted within the University of California
This study explores the experiences of Latino immigrant students in one classroom at a high school in the upper Midwest through their stories, within the historical and contemporary context of immigra
Ferraro’s doctoral dissertation analyzes changes in violent and property crime rates in areas home to immigrants, crime against immigrants in those same areas, and whether the effect of immigration on
Drawing on results of surveys and interviews they conducted, California education scholars Perez (Claremont Graduate U.) and Cortes (Glendale Community College) examine how undocumented Latino student
