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The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration: An Introduction

Katharine M. Donato, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2020, 6 (3) 1-16; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.3.01
Katharine M. Donato
aDonald G. Herzberg Professor of International Migration and director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, United States
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bProfessor of economics in the Economics and Business Management Department at the University of California, Merced, United States
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vol. 6 no. 3 1-16
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2020.6.3.01

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  • Published online November 9, 2020.

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© 2020 Russell Sage Foundation. Donato, Katharine M., and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes. 2020. “The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration: An Introduction.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 6(3): 1–16. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2020.6.3.01. We are very grateful to Vincent Ta for his expert assistance with the data management and graphical analysis that appears in this manuscript. We acknowledge the very helpful comments from several anonymous reviewers, participants at the RSF conference in April 2018, and Lindsay B. Lowell. Finally, we are grateful for the intellectual guidance and administrative support from Suzanne Nichols and others at the Russell Sage Foundation. Direct correspondence to: Katharine M. Donato at kmd285@georgetown.edu, ISIM/Georgetown University, 3300 Whitehaven Rd., Washington, D.C. 20007, United States; and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes at camuedo-dorantes@ucmerced.edu, University of California Merced, Economics and Business Management, 5200 North Lake Rd., Merced, CA 95343, 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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