Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants

by James A. McCann and Michael Jones-Correa

The fight over immigration reform and immigrants' rights in the U.S. has been marked by sharp swings in both public sentiment and official enforcement. In 2006, millions of Latino immigrants joined protests for immigration reform. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a policy granting work permits and protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who entered the country before age 16, was enacted in 2012, despite a sharp increase in deportations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871545691
• ISBN13: 9780871545695
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"