A president, A scholar, and an immigration bill

Amardo Rodriguez

doi:10.1080/13504630.2018.1495070

A president, A scholar, and an immigration bill

Amardo Rodriguez

Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies

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In this paper I look critically at George Borjas's scholarship on immigration. Borjas is widely considered to be academia's leading immigration skeptic. He consistently contends that low skilled and low educated immigrants (both ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’) hurt the US economy in many different ways, including suppressing the wages of different minority groups. However, a rigorous reading of Borjas's scholarship reveals many troubling epistemological assumptions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	724-741
Number of pages	18
Journal	Social Identities
Volume	25
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2018.1495070
State	Published - Sep 3 2019

Keywords

IQ
RAISE act
Race
george bojas
immigrants
immigration policy

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Sociology and Political Science

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