How to Cite
Chapkina, Nadejda, Charles Jaret, Guangya Liu, and Angela Pollock. 2010. “Controversies About the Impact of Immigration : Immigrants and Job Competition: Five Points of View”. 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.
Abstract
The Broadest Generalization: "The jobs that immigrants hold are jobs taken away from American citizens." In extreme form, people with anti-immigrant sentiments express this idea as, "every job held by an immigrant is one less job that a U.S. citizen can hold." But this overlooks too many important facts to be valid.Download this resource to see full details. Download this resource to see full details.
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- Subject Area(s):
- Migration/Immigration
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