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"""Parents Without Papers exposes the effects of legal status on immigrants' life chances, which persist over generations. Through carefully collected data, meticulous analysis, and theoretical acuity, the authors offer a sobering account of the injurious consequences of an undocumented status on long-term patterns of immigrant integration, making a unique and significant contribution to immigration scholarship. Their findings also have much to offer for policy, making a compelling case for the legalization of undocumented immigrants to ensure a better future for the immigrants themselves and for the country as a whole."" --CECILIA MENJÍVAR, Cowden Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University ""Parents Without Papers is a major contribution to our understanding of immigrant incorporation and Mexican American mobility. Conceptually, theoretically, and empirically it shows the multifaceted impact that 'illegal' status has on Mexican American communities including immigrants and the native born second and third generations. The volume will become essential to scholars and policy makers seriously concerned about immigrant policy. "" --RODOLFO O. DE LA GARZA, Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science, Columbia University"

Parents Without Papers exposes the effects of legal status on immigrants' life chances, which persist over generations. Through carefully collected data, meticulous analysis, and theoretical acuity, the authors offer a sobering account of the injurious consequences of an undocumented status on long-term patterns of immigrant integration, making a unique and significant contribution to immigration scholarship. Their findings also have much to offer for policy, making a compelling case for the legalization of undocumented immigrants to ensure a better future for the immigrants themselves and for the country as a whole. --CECILIA MENJIVAR, Cowden Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University Parents Without Papers is a major contribution to our understanding of immigrant incorporation and Mexican American mobility. Conceptually, theoretically, and empirically it shows the multifaceted impact that 'illegal' status has on Mexican American communities including immigrants and the native born second and third generations. The volume will become essential to scholars and policy makers seriously concerned about immigrant policy. --RODOLFO O. DE LA GARZA, Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science, Columbia University

""Parents Without Papers exposes the effects of legal status on immigrants' life chances, which persist over generations. Through carefully collected data, meticulous analysis, and theoretical acuity, the authors offer a sobering account of the injurious consequences of an undocumented status on long-term patterns of immigrant integration, making a unique and significant contribution to immigration scholarship. Their findings also have much to offer for policy, making a compelling case for the legalization of undocumented immigrants to ensure a better future for the immigrants themselves and for the country as a whole."" --CECILIA MENJÍVAR, Cowden Distinguished Professor, Arizona State University ""Parents Without Papers is a major contribution to our understanding of immigrant incorporation and Mexican American mobility. Conceptually, theoretically, and empirically it shows the multifaceted impact that 'illegal' status has on Mexican American communities including immigrants and the native born second and third generations. The volume will become essential to scholars and policy makers seriously concerned about immigrant policy. "" --RODOLFO O. DE LA GARZA, Eaton Professor of Administrative Law and Municipal Science, Columbia University

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FRANK D. BEAN is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on International Migration at the University of California, Irvine. SUSAN K. BROWN is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. JAMES D. BACHMEIER is assistant professor of sociology at Temple University.

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