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During the 2016 presidential campaign millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a border wall between the United States and Mexico. Well into the Trump presidency, immigration endures as a hotly contested issue in United States politics. In Dreams Derailed sociologist William A. Schwab shares the stories of immigration reform advocates and follows up on stories told in his 2013 book Right to DREAM, which argued in favor of the DREAM Act that would have provided conditional residency for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children, a version of which was later enacted by executive order and referred to as DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Taking as its focal point the Trump administration's decision to rescind Obama-era DACA protection, Dreams Derailed delves into the economic, political, and social factors that inform the public conversation about immigration, making a clear case for the many benefits of inclusive policies and the protection of undocumented youths. Schwab also takes a close look at the factors that carried Donald Trump to the White House, demonstrates how economic upheaval and the issue of immigration influenced the 2016 presidential election, analyzes current immigration laws, and suggests next steps for reform

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Why Study the City? -- Introduction -- What is the City? -- The Importance of Understanding Cities -- Urban Problems -- Urban Promises and The Importance of the City -- The Book's Perspective -- Chapter 2: Globalization and Urbanization in the More-Developed World -- Introduction -- A Revolution -- Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and The Olive Tree -- The Revolution Came in Four Installments -- The Democratization of Technology -- The Democratization of Finance -- The Democratization of Information -- The Democratization of Decision Making -- Fitting the Jigsaw Together -- There's No One at the Wheel! -- How Things can Change in a Faster, Smaller World -- Robert Reich and The Work of Nations -- From High-Volume to High-Value-Added Production -- New Economic Groups in the Global Economy -- A New World Geography -- Continents as Economic Units -- New Regional Economies -- The Growth of the City-State -- Clusters of Symbolic Analysts -- New Strategies for Growing a City's Economy -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Globalization and Urbanization in the Less-Developed World -- Introduction -- World Population Growth -- Level of Development and Population Growth -- The Theory of Demographic Transition -- The Effects of Rapid Population Growth -- World Urban Growth -- Current and Projected Growth -- Migration -- A Typology of Urbanization Patterns in LDCs -- The Question of Primacy -- Primacy's Relationship to Development -- An Alternative View: Primacy as a Solution -- The Internal Structure of the City -- The Premodern City -- The Modern City -- Spontaneous Settlements -- Spontaneous Settlements Defined -- The Life Cycle of Spontaneous Settlements -- Why People Settle There -- Are Conditions Getting Worse?.

The degree to which three ecological models can predict the direction of neighborhood change is evaluated in this article. The life-cycle, arbitrage, and composition models commonly are found in the literature on neighborhood change, but each focuses on a different aspect of this process. To date, researchers have evaluated these models individually, but few have compared their predictive ability. This study uses discriminant analysis to evaluate the efficiency of each model in correctly classifying upward and downward succession of tracts, using census tract data from Cincinnati, Ohio. The composition model had the greatest predictive value, closely followed by the life-cycle model, but each identifies different and complementary aspects of the neighborhood change process.