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Controversies About the Impact of Immigration: Narrower Negative Generalization: "Immigrants take jobs away from Americans in certain sectors of the economy."
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Chapkina, Nadejda, Charles Jaret, Guangya Liu, and Angela Pollock. 2010. “Quot”;. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/controversies-about-the-impact-of-immigration-chapkina.

Abstract

Some observers speak about specific occupations, industries, or economic sectors in which they believe large numbers of jobs have been "taken over" by immigrants. They claim that these are jobs that some American residents would be willing to perform, but employers instead prefer to hire immigrants either because of racial prejudice (e.g., they dislike...

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Migration/Immigration

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