Immigration Realities - Challenging Common Misperceptions

This timely book is a practical, evidence-based primer on immigrants and immigration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Immigration as a History of Exclusion and Homemaking
1. The Southern Border Is Safe, but Border Enforcement Makes It Unsafe for Many
2. Border Walls Do Not Keep Immigrants Out of a Country
3. Immigrants Commit Less Crime than Native-Born People
4. Immigrants Want to, and Do, Learn the Local Language
5. Immigrants Do Not Depend on Welfare Programs More than Native-Born People
6. Remittances Do Not Drain Host Countries’ Economies and Are Not Like Foreign Aid
7. There Is No Refugee Crisis
8. Globalization and Migration Are Independent Processes
9. Brexit Did Not Halt Immigration to the United Kingdom
10. Immigrants Can Integrate While Maintaining Their Identities
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Ernesto Castañeda is the director of the Immigration Lab and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. His books include A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (2018); Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States (2019); and Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration (2024).

Carina Cione is a sociologist and writer based out of Baltimore, MD. Their work has been featured by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Trauma Care, El Paso News, and American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies Working Paper Series.

Summary

This timely book is a practical, evidence-based primer on immigrants and immigration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions.

Product details

• Authors: Ernesto Cione Castaneda, Ernesto Castañeda, Carina Cione
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9780231203746
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20374-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Social Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social discrimination & inequality, Migration, immigration and emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice