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Christopher Jencks

Christopher Jencks is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. He is the author of Rethinking Social Policy and The Homeless, among other books. (June 2016)

Who Should Get In? Part II

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation

by Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut

The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience

edited by Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind

Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America

by Roberto Suro

Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy

by George J. Borjas

Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities

by Mary C. Waters

The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration

edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston

The Case Against Immigration

by Roy Beck

The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform

by James G. Gimpel and James R. Edwards Jr

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December 20, 2001 issue

Who Should Get In?

Who Should Get In?

The Ecological Indian: Myth and History

by Shepard Krech III

The Case Against Immigration

by Roy Beck

Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy

by George J. Borjas

America's Demography in the New Century: Aging Baby Boomers and New Immigrants as Major Players

by William Frey and Ross DeVol

The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience

edited by Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind

Immigration from Mexico: Assessing the Impact on the United States

by Steven Camarota

The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration

edited by James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston

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November 29, 2001 issue

Housing the Homeless

Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

by Martha R. Burt

A Place to Call Home: The Low Income Housing Crisis Continues Information Service

by Edward Lazere and Paul Leonard and Cushing Dolbeare and Barry Zigas

Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

by Elliot Liebow

The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy

by the New York City Commission on the Homeless (Andrew Cuomo, chair)

Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness

by Peter H. Rossi

New Homeless and Old: Community and the Skid Row Hotel

by Charles Hoch and Robert Slayton

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May 12, 1994 issue

The Homeless

Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s

by Martha R. Burt

The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy

by the New York City Commission on the Homeless

Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness

by Peter H. Rossi

Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People

by David A. Snow and Leon Anderson

The Mole People

by Jennifer Toth

Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community

by David Wagner

Rude Awakenings: What the Homeless Crisis Tells Us

by Richard W. White Jr.

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April 21, 1994 issue

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