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Family reunification and the immigration multiplier: U.S. immigration law, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of immigrants
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Demography (1986) 23 (3): 291–311.
Published: 01 August 1986
...Guillermina Jasso; Mark R. Rosenzweig Abstract This paper reports estimates of the total numbers of actual legal immigrants to the United States that result from the family reunification provisions of U.S. immigration law. These immigration multipliers are estimated separately for major visa...
View articletitled, Family reunification and the <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> multiplier: U.S. <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> <span class="search-highlight">law</span>, origin-country conditions, and the reproduction of <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span>
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Effects of U. S. immigration law on manpower characteristics of immigrants
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Demography (1975) 12 (2): 179–191.
Published: 01 May 1975
... of Immigration and Naturalization . ( 1961 ). Washington, D. C. : U. S. Government Printing Office . 1972 Report of the Visa Office . ( 1973 ). Washington, D. C. : U. S. Government Printing Office . DEMOGRAPHY@ Volume 12, Number 2 May 1975 EFFECTS OF U. S. IMMIGRATION LAW ON MANPOWER CHARACTERISTICS...
View articletitled, Effects of U. S. <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> <span class="search-highlight">law</span> on manpower characteristics of <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span>
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On the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Enhanced U.S. Border and Interior Immigration Enforcement: Evidence From Mexican Deportees
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2255–2279.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of increased border enforcement by the federal government; and (2) state-level omnibus immigration laws, as an illustration of enhanced interior enforcement by state governments. We investigate whether these policies have reduced the intentions of deported Mexican immigrants to attempt a new unauthorized...
View articletitled, On the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Enhanced U.S. Border and Interior <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Enforcement: Evidence From Mexican Deportees
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Effects of the immigration act of 1965 on selected population characteristics of immigrants to the United States
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Demography (1971) 8 (2): 157–169.
Published: 01 May 1971
...Charles B. Keely Abstract Recent changes in immigration law have affected the characteristics of immigrants coming to the United States. The major changes in immigration policy contained in the 1965 Immigration Act, which amended the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, concerned the abolition of the quota...
View articletitled, Effects of the <span class="search-highlight">immigration</span> act of 1965 on selected population characteristics of <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span> to the United States
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Beyond the Border and Into the Heartland: Spatial Patterning of U.S. Immigration Detention
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1147–1193.
Published: 21 May 2018
...Margot Moinester Abstract The expansion of U.S. immigration enforcement from the borders into the interior of the country and the fivefold increase in immigration detentions and deportations since 1995 raise important questions about how the enforcement of immigration law is spatially patterned...
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View articletitled, Beyond the Border and Into the Heartland: Spatial Patterning of U.S. <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Detention
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Dual citizenship rights: do they make more and richer citizens?
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 169–191.
Published: 01 February 2009
... Law, Origin-Country Conditions, and the Reproduction of Immigrants . Demography , 23 , 291 – 311 . 10.2307/2061432 Jones-Correa M. ( 2001 ). Institutional and Contextual Factors in Immigrant Citizenship and Voting . Citizenship Studies , 5 , 41 – 56 . 10.1080/13621020020025187...
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Do amnesty programs reduce undocumented immigration? Evidence from Irca
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 437–450.
Published: 01 August 2003
... that apprehensions of persons attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally declined immediately following passage of the law but returned to normal levels during the period when undocumented immigrants could file for amnesty and the years thereafter. Our findings suggest that the amnesty program did...
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Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform: Discrimination and Hispanic Employment
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Demography (1995) 32 (4): 617–628.
Published: 01 November 1995
... , 1 – 17 . Report and Recommendations of the Task Force on IRCA-Related Discrimination . ( 1990 ). Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Justice . U.S. Congress. 1986. “Immigration Reform and Control Act.” Public Law 99-603, November 6. U.S. Department of Labor. 1990. Geographic Profile...
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Does Culture Affect Divorce? Evidence From European Immigrants in the United States
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1013–1038.
Published: 16 January 2013
...Delia Furtado; Miriam Marcén; Almudena Sevilla Abstract This article explores the role of culture in determining divorce by examining country-of-origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of U.S. laws...
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Immigration Enforcement, Parent–Child Separations, and Intent to Remigrate by Central American Deportees
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1825–1851.
Published: 15 October 2015
... about the future of their children, and continued stalemate on comprehensive immigration reform, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced on June 15, 2012, that undocumented childhood arrivals, meeting certain conditions, would be granted lawful presence...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Enforcement, Parent–Child Separations, and Intent to Remigrate by Central American Deportees
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Measuring Geographic Migration Patterns Using Matrículas Consulares
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1119–1145.
Published: 14 May 2018
... For the full distribution of destinations chosen by migrants from these two sources, see Figs. S8 and S9 (Online Resource 1). 3 4 2018 14 5 2018 © Population Association of America 2018 2018 International migration Immigration law Mexico United States Research...
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When Immigration Policies Affect Immigrants’ Lives: Commentary
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1097–1099.
Published: 25 April 2013
... suspicion that the individual is an undocumented immigrant. Public officials supporting this law contend that SB 1070 is necessary and that undocumented immigrants living and working in Arizona pose a far greater risk and cost the state much more than the law’s potential for widespread racial profiling...
View articletitled, When <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Policies Affect <span class="search-highlight">Immigrants</span>’ Lives: Commentary
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African-origin migrants who obtained lawful permanent resident status by de...
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Fig. 1 African-origin migrants who obtained lawful permanent resident status by decade, 1900–2009. Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Yearbook of Immigration Statistics ( 2012 )
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Urbanization and de-urbanization of the black population before the civil war
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 311–328.
Published: 01 August 1976
... that both competition with immigrants in major eastern seaboard cities and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 contributed to black de-urbanization. For the South, the explanations of black urban decline proposed by Wade, Conrad and Meyer, Goldin, and Bonacich are evaluated, and Bonacich’s split...
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Demography and the social contract
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 587–616.
Published: 01 November 2002
... Studies , 20 , 41 – 62 . 10.1016/S0261-3794(99)00062-1 Bosniak L. ( 2000 ). Universal Citizenship and the Problem of Alienage . Northwestern University Law Review , 94 , 963 – 82 . Briggs V. ( 1993 ). Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market: Public Policy Gone Awry (pp. 9...
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DACA's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 975–985.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... , Williams D. R. , Harvey-Mendoza E. , Jahromi L. B. , & Updegraff K. A. ( 2014 ). Impact of Arizona's SB 1070 immigration law on utilization of health care and public assistance among Mexican-origin adolescent mothers and their mother figures . American Journal of Public Health...
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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Affect Unauthorized Immigrants?
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 1067–1091.
Published: 27 March 2013
... unauthorized immigrants exposed to these more-punitive measures, whereas second-order effects may expand to future unauthorized immigrants contemplating migration to the United States. Several studies have examined the impact of federal immigration laws, such as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control...
View articletitled, How Do Tougher <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Measures Affect Unauthorized <span class="search-highlight">Immigrants</span>?
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The new immigrant survey pilot (NIS-P): Overview and new findings about U.S. Legal immigrants at admission
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 127–138.
Published: 01 February 2000
... of immigrants, the roles of the selection criteria of U.S. immigration law, and the selectivity that governs who are im- migrants and who are not. The New Immigrant Survey Pilot (NIS-P) is a first at- tempt to resolve these problems. In this paper we describe the survey and report findings from its baseline...
View articletitled, The new <span class="search-highlight">immigrant</span> survey pilot (NIS-P): Overview and new findings about U.S. Legal <span class="search-highlight">immigrants</span> at admission
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2079–2107.
Published: 01 December 2022
... devolution of immigration enforcement in the U.S. South . Law & Policy , 34 , 159 – 190 . Coleman M. , & Kocher A . ( 2019 ). Rethinking the “gold standard” of racial profiling: §287(g), secure communities and racially discrepant police power . American Behavioral Scientist , 63...
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View articletitled, State <span class="search-highlight">Immigration</span> Policy Contexts and Racialized Legal Status Disparities in Health Care Utilization Among U.S. Agricultural Workers
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Immigration, crime, and incarceration in early twentieth-century America
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 739–763.
Published: 01 November 2009
... . Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology , 73 , 1259 – 81 . 10.2307/1143193 Brown M.C. , & Warner B.D. ( 1995 ). The Political Threat of Immigrant Groups and Police Aggressiveness in 1900 . In D.F. Hawkins (Ed.), Ethnicity, Race, and Crime: Perspectives Across Time...
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