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The US Deportation System: History, Impacts, and New Empirical Research

Caitlin Patler, Bradford Jones
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2025, 11 (4) 1-24; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.01
Caitlin Patler
aAssociate professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, United States
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bProfessor of political science at the University of California, Davis, United States
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vol. 11 no. 4 1-24
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.01

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2377-8253
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  • Published online December 4, 2025.

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© 2025 Russell Sage Foundation. Patler, Caitlin, and Bradford Jones. 2025. “The US Deportation System: History, Impacts, and New Empirical Research.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(4): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.4.01. The authors are grateful to Suzanne Nichols and the anonymous reviewers at the Russell Sage Foundation. Direct correspondence to: Caitlin Patler, at patler{at}berkeley.edu, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2607 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States. Bradford Jones, at bsjjones{at}ucdavis.edu, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. Caitlin Patlera and
  2. Bradford Jonesb
  1. aAssociate professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, United States
  2. bProfessor of political science at the University of California, Davis, United States
  1. Correspondence authors:
    Caitlin Patler, (patler{at}berkeley.edu), Bradford Jones, (bsjjones{at}ucdavis.edu)
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