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Illegality: A Contemporary Portrait of Immigration

Roberto G. Gonzales, Steven Raphael
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences July 2017, 3 (4) 1-17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.4.01
Roberto G. Gonzales
aAssistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
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bJames D. Marver Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: 3 (4)
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    • THE ENDURING LEGACY OF HART-CELLER
    • LEGALIZATION AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
    • THE DISRUPTION OF CIRCULAR MIGRATION
    • THE RISE OF THE “FORMIDABLE DEPORTATION MACHINE”
    • THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF ILLEGALITY TODAY
    • STUDYING EXPERIENCES OF ILLEGALITY
    • THE CURRENT EXPERIENCE OF ILLEGALITY IN THE UNITED STATES
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