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by Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D. and Walter A. Ewing, Ph.D.
Spring 2007
Because many immigrants to the United States, especially
Mexicans and Central Americans, are young men who
arrive with very low levels of formal education, popular stereotypes
tend to associate them with higher rates of crime
and incarceration. The fact that many of these immigrants
enter the country through unauthorized channels or overstay
their visas often is framed as an assault against the “rule of
law,” thereby reinforcing the impression that immigration
and criminality are linked. This association has fl ourished
in a post-9/11 climate of fear and ignorance where terrorism
and undocumented immigration often are mentioned in the
same breath.
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The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation
by Rubén G. Rumbaut, Ph.D. and Walter A. Ewing, Ph.D.
20 pages - 897 KB - Adobe PDF
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