Improving low-income and minority access to mortgage credit after the housing bust
2012 report from Harvard on the impact of government housing policies on home-ownership rates of minority individuals and disadvantaged communities.
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Immigration reform, Latinos and emerging dynamics
2012 selection of recent scholarship on immigration- and immigrant-related issues such as their effect on the job market, language attitudes and parenthood.
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Latino adolescents’ experiences of discrimination in high school
2011 study in Child Development on perceived discrimination among young Latinos in high school and its outcomes in educational settings.
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The end of farm labor abundance in the United States
2012 study from the University of California, Davis, and El Colegio de Mexico on farm labor supply in the U.S. and Mexican migration patterns.
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Economic impact of local immigration regulation
2010 study from Baylor University and Texas Wesleyan School of Law on the economic consequences involved in enforcing immigration laws.
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Immigration offenders in the federal justice system
2012 report from the Department of Justice using data from seven federal agencies to highlight trends in immigration violations and enforcement in 2010 and earlier.
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Impact of immigration on anti-Hispanic hate crime in the United States
2011 study in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice on higher levels of hate crimes in places of increased immigration.
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Why do (some) city police departments enforce federal immigration law?
2012 study in Journal of Public Administration Research about variation in local enforcement of immigration laws.
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Do Latino Christians and seculars fit the “culture war” profile? Latino religiosity and politics
2012 study by the University of Southern Mississippi in the journal Politics and Religion on religion and politics in the Latino community.
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Getting out the vote: Minority mobilization in a U.S. presidential election
2011 study in Political Behavior showing how minorities frequently receive less in-person contacts, and how this explains different voter participation rates.
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