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  • Texas-Style Exclusion

    Mexican Americans and the Legacy of Limited Opportunity

    by Jennifer Van Hook, James D. Bachmeier ...
    While Americans largely support legal immigration, this support is conditional on the basis that immigrants do not make use of public assistance. Previous generations of immigrants, such as European-origin Industrial Era immigrants, came to U.S. impoverished, worked hard, and achieved the American Dream seemingly on their own. Mexican immigrants, the nation’s largest contemporary immigrant group, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Immigration Policy and Immigrant Families

    Edited by Jennifer Van Hook, Valarie King ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines how immigration law impacts U.S. immigrant families. It addresses how admission and border policies shape family formation and contribute to prolonged family separation; how immigration enforcement affects parenting practices; and how immigrants’ unique challenges spill over to influence broader kinship support networks. Chapters describe family reunification and separation ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Boys and Men in African American Families

    Edited by Dorian Burton, Susan M. McHale, Valarie King, Jennifer Van Hook, Linda M. Burton ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This important volume takes a life course approach in sharing empirical insights on the family experiences of African American males in socioeconomic and political contexts. Representing fields ranging from developmental psychology to public health and sociology to education, chapters identify challenges facing black men and boys in the U.S., as well as family and community sources of support and ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Gender and Couple Relationships

    Edited by Susan M. McHale, Valarie King, Jennifer Van Hook, Alan Booth ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This provocative volume is comprised of psychological, socioeconomic, and cultural perspectives on couple dynamics, particularly gender dynamics, and the future of marriage. Featuring data on married, cohabitating, male/female, and same-sex couples, the authors of the book's chapters analyze the changing impacts of work, parenting, and the health benefits of marriage for men and women. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality

    Diverging Destinies

    Edited by Jennifer Van Hook, Susan M. McHale, Alan Booth, Paul R. Amato ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families. And as the children of low-income families grow to adulthood, they have less access to opportunities and resources than their higher-income peers--and increasing odds of repeating the experiences of their parents.Families in an Era of Increasing ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Families and Technology

    Edited by Jennifer Van Hook, Susan M. McHale, Valarie King ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This timely reference takes a rigorous look at the myriad ways technology, from smartphones to dating apps to social media, is affecting family life and opening new areas for study. The book features cross-disciplinary perspectives on current trends in the role of technology in couple and family contexts. It focuses on the roles of parents in monitoring children’s screen time, of technology in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees

    Edited by Pallassana Balgopal ...
    Series series Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series
    The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees. With the increase in immigration in the late 1980s—when the number of refugees entering the United States nearly doubled as well—the number of clients needing social work services rose dramatically. Social Work Practice with Immigrants and Refugees takes an ecological systems perspective on working with these ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society

    by Carew Boulding ...
    This book argues that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have an important effect on political participation in the developing world. Contrary to popular belief, they promote moderate political participation through formal mechanisms such as voting only in democracies where institutions are working well. This is a radical departure from the bulk of the literature on civil society that sees NGOs ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Immigration Realities

    Challenging Common Misperceptions

    by Ernesto Castañeda, Carina Cione ...
    Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes. They are eager to learn local languages. Immigration is not a burden on social services. Border walls do not work. There is no unmanageable refugee crisis. Yet many such misinformed assumptions and harmful misconceptions pervade conversations about immigration.This timely book is a practical, evidence-based primer on immigrants and immigration. Each ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Latino Politics in America

    Community, Culture, and Interests

    by John A. García, Gabriel Ramon Sanchez ...
    The fourth edition of this widely-used textbook introduces students to what it means to be a Latino American culturally and politically at a time of unprecedented challenges for America’s diverse and fastest-growing ethnic group. Garcia and Sanchez provide an in-depth examination of the individual communities that comprise the Latino culture, and how those bonds affect political development and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The New Americans?

    Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino Identity

    by Heather Silber Mohamed ...
    Winner: Latino Politics Best Book Award, American Political Science AssociationIn 2006, millions of Latinos mobilized in opposition to H.R. 4437, an immigration proposal pending before the US Congress. In her new book, Heather Silber Mohamed suggests that these unprecedented protests marked a turning point for the Latino population—a point that is even more salient ten years later as the issue of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Latina/os in the United States

    Diversity and Change

    by Rogelio Sáenz, Maria Cristina Morales, Coda Rayo-Garza ...
    As the major driver of US demographic change, Latinos are reshaping key aspects of the social, economic, political, and cultural landscape of the country.In this second edition of Latina/os in the United States, Sáenz, Morales, and Rayo-Garza highlight the experiences of Latinos in a variety of domains, including gender and sexuality, education, political engagement, work and economic life, family ... Read more

    $23.00 USD