From The Social Contract, a special issue on crime and immigration. Devin T. Molina (American): The Minutemen and Neoliberal State Activity: Towards an Understanding of Private Border Patrols. Doug Keller (Georgetown): Re-Thinking Illegal Entry and Re-Entry. Joshua Zingher (Binghamton): U.S. State Immigration Policy and Party Strategy. Jose Cruz (SUNY-Albany): The Political Incorporation of (In)Migrants in the United States: The Case of Puerto Ricans. Ruben G. Rumbaut (UC-Irvine): Assimilation's Bumpy Road. Daniel Hopkins (Georgetown): The Upside of Accents: Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes Toward Immigration. Roger Waldinger (UCLA): Immigration: The New American Dilemma. The DREAM Act is dead in Congress, but the White House is quietly moving to limit deportations of certain undocumented immigrants. Academic purgatory: An illegal immigrant earns a Ph.D. — now what? Documenting migrants: An interview with Charles D. Thompson of Duke University. If American growers depend on illegal labor, would strict enforcement of immigration laws drive up prices for fruits and vegetables? More secure than ever: Despite cries to crack down on illegal immigration, a new analysis suggests that border crossings from Mexico have been falling for years and border crimes are less common than national average. A review of Crossing Borders: Migration and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century United States by Dorothee Schneider. What it means to be an American: Attitudes in an increasingly diverse America ten years after 9/11. Our powers of assimilation are greater than we know: We can speak Spanish, eat sushi and still be American — the proof is in the pickle. A review of Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children by Hirokazu Yoshikawa. A review of Amexica: War along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy. Life on the line: As a vicious drug war rages on the other side of the Mexican border, El Paso is prospering.
