Deporting the American Dream: Immigration Enforcement and Latino Foreclosures

Over the past decade, Latinos have been buffeted by two major forces: a record number of immigrant deportations and the housing foreclosure crisis. Yet, prior work has not assessed the link between the two. We hypothesize that deportations exacerbate rates of foreclosure among Latinos by removing in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jacob S. Rugh, Matthew Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2016-12-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://www.sociologicalscience.com/articles-v3-46-1053/