From the European Journal of American Studies, a special issue on immigration. Daniel Hopkins (Georgetown): Politicized Places: Explaining Where and When Immigrants Provoke Local Opposition. No longer a new name: Newcomers see less reason to Anglicize surnames and have a desire to retain their ethnic heritage in America. Braden Goyette on the real reason anti-immigrant sentiment is so dangerous. From The Social Contract, a special issue on the case for a moratorium on legal immigration; and a review of A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America by Aristide R. Zolberg. The Village Voice goes inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital, Phoenix. As Mexican drug cartels increasingly recruit American teens as runners, Sugar Land teen Elisabeth Mandala goes across the border and ends up dead. The law of large numbers: The role of Latinos in American society is growing inexorably, with big political implications for the future. More on Not Fit for Our Society: Immigration and Nativism in America by Peter Schrag. Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor. Really. We Mean It.: Economists are making the case politicians are afraid to: Immigration is great for the US. Immigration 101: Becoming a legal immigrant is more complicated than you might think. Basta Dobbs!: An interview with Roberto Lovato of Presente.org. CSI Desert: When migrants die, who IDs them? Invisible America: In immigrants’ rooms, a photographer documents a fragile stability. From The Nation, a special investigative report on Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite: While he railed against "illegals," undocumented immigrants tended to his estates and prize horses.
