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Title: In the Public but Not the Electorate: The “Civic Status Gap” in the United States

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: The 2016 presidential campaign is well under way, and debates concerning immigration have taken on ominous tones. Candidates from both major parties have talked about enforcement along the border, but the view of immigrants among Republicans vying for their party’s nomination is darker. Candidates promise to end “illegal” immigration, to track immigrants like FedEx packages (Spodak and Scott 2015), to dramatically increase the deportations of those in the United States without papers, and to reverse the executive order signed . . .

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/rsf.2016.2.3.01#metadata_info_tab_contents

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Authors: McCann, James A.; Jones-Correa, Michael

Periodical (Full): RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Issue: 3

Volume: 2

Pages: 1-19

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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