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Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. Places and Peoples: The New American Mosaic / Charles Hirschman and Douglas S. Massey -- Part I. Emerging Patterns of Immigrant Settlement -- Chapter 2. The Geographic Diversification of American Immigration / Douglas S. Massey and Chiara Capoferro -- Chapter 3. The Structure and Dynamics of Mexican Migration to New Destinations in the United States / Mark A. Leach and Frank D. Bean -- Chapter 4. Changing Faces, Changing Places: The Emergence of New Nonmetropolitan Immigrant Gateways / Katharine M. Donato, Charles Tolbert, Alfred Nucci, and Yukio Kawano

Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the ""L"" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies on a resentful public. Conservatives capitalized on this with a staunch ideology of free markets, limited government, and conservative social values. The time is ripe for a liberal realignment, declares Massey, but what has been lacking is a consistent liberal ideology that explains to voters

Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. How Stratification Works -- Chapter 2. The Rise and Fall of Egalitarian Capitalism -- Chapter 3. Reworking the Color Line -- Chapter 4. Building a Better Underclass -- Chapter 5. Remaking the Political Economy -- Chapter 6. Engendering Inequality -- Chapter 7. America Unequal -- Notes -- References -- Index

Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies on a resentful public. Conservatives capitalized on this with a staunch ideology of free markets, limited government, and conservative social values. The time is ripe for a liberal realignment, declares Massey, but what has been lacking is a consistent liberal ideology that explains to voters, in simple te.

Misguided U.S. Policies since 1980 have created a large undocumented population within the United States. Border militarization curtailed circular undocumented migration from Mexico and Cold War politics precluded the acceptance of refugees from Central America fleeing violence and economic turmoil unleashed by America's intervention in the region. Although undocumented migration from Mexico has ended, resources devoted to border apprehensions and internal deportations continue to rise, pushing an ever larger number of Central Americans into an immigrant detention system that is ill-equipped to handle them. Although the Trump Administration portrays the situation as an immigration crisis, what is really unfolding along the border and within the United States is an unprecedented humanitarian cross that in so many ways is one of our own making.

This article underscores the importance of adding a question on parental birthplace to the American Community Survey (ACS). This question was removed from the long form of the U.S. Census after 1970 and replaced by a question on ancestry. While the former provides accurate information about a demographic fact that is critical to the identification of the children of immigrants, the latter refers to a subjective social construction that has limited utility for purposes of program administration, apportionment, or governance. At the time that the parental birthplace question was eliminated, the percentage of ACS respondents who were foreign-born had reached an all-time low, and the second generation was aging and shrinking, so the loss to the nation's statistical system was not immediately apparent. With the revival of immigration in the final quarter of the twentieth century, the inability to identify and study the second generation has become glaringly apparent. Immigrants and their children now constitute a quarter of the U.S. population: their nonwhite racial origins and a widespread lack of legal documents among them render their prospects for integration uncertain. Our current inability to accurately measure progress between first- and second-generation immigrants now constitutes a major weakness in the U.S. statistical system.