From Around the Web
The American Dream
- “The American Dream Is an Illusion: Immigration and Inequality” by Gregory Clark, Foreign Affairs, August 26, 2014 – “Immigration to the United States rarely changes one’s social status.”
- “‘American dream; is now a myth: How bad policies and worse ideology ruined us” by Heather Digby Parton, Salon, September 26, 2014
Children
- “The Shortening Leash” by Jessica Grose and Hanna Rosin, Slate, August 6, 2014 – “Kids today have a lot less freedom than their parents did.”
Immigration Economics
- “The domestic economic impacts of immigration” by David Roodman, David Roodman’s Blog, September 3, 2014 – “There is almost no evidence of anything close to one-to-one crowding out by new immigrant arrivals to the job market in industrial countries.”
Religion
- “Americans Want More Faith in Public Life” by Emma Green, The Atlantic, September 22 – “Most people think religion is losing its influence on politics and culture, but many also want it to play a greater role.”
From the Bookshelf
- Peter Morton Coan, Toward A Better Life: America’s New Immigrants in Their Own Words From Ellis Island to the Present
, New York: Promotheus Books, 2011 — First-person accounts of immigrant experience with some historic information thrown in. — BUY NOW
- Ilan Stavans and Pete Hamill, eds. Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today, Washington, D.C.: Library of America, 2009 — Writings by immigrants. — BUY NOW
- Marcelo Suarez Orozco, Vivian Louie, and Roberto Suro, eds., Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011 — An exhaustive, if a tad dry, overview of the academic and journalistic discourse of legal, economic, and second-generation issues of immigration. — BUY NOW
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