Writing Immigration Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue [Hardcover]

Bringing nuance, complexity, and clarity to a subject often seen in black and white,Writing Immigrationpresents a unique interplay of leading scholars and journalists working on the contentious topic of immigration. In a series of powerful essays, the contributors reflect on how they struggle to write about one of the defining issues of our timeone that is at once local and global, familiar and uncanny, concrete and abstract. Highlighting and framing central questions surrounding immigration, their essays explore topics including illegal immigration, state and federal mechanisms for immigration regulation, enduring myths and fallacies regarding immigration, immigration and the economy, immigration and education, the adaptations of the second generation, and more. Together, these writings give a clear sense of the ways in which scholars and journalists enter, shape, and sometimes transform this essential yet unfinished national conversation.

Marcelo M. Su?rez-Orozco,The Ross University Professor at New York University, is the author and editor of many books includingLatinos: Remaking America(UC Press), co-edited by Mariela P?ez.Vivian Louieis Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University and the author ofCompelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity Among Chinese Americans.Roberto Surois Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at the University of Southern California and the author ofStrangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America,among other books.

No one in the news media should write or talk about immigration without readingWriting Immigration. --Lawrence O'Donnell, Host of MSNBCThe Last word with Lawrence O'Donnell

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