{"id":4044,"date":"2013-02-12T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2013-02-12T09:51:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T14:51:22","slug":"real-talk-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/02\/12\/real-talk-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Talk on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4045\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinnanya\/6474806331\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4045\" alt=\"Photo by Quinn Dombrowski via flickr.com.\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/files\/2013\/02\/Voice-Your-Dream-Immigration.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/02\/Voice-Your-Dream-Immigration.jpg 320w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2013\/02\/Voice-Your-Dream-Immigration-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Quinn Dombrowski via flickr.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We all appreciate some theoretical noodling now and again, but it is important to remember that social science research can still bring key information into national debates. When major policy issues are at stake, academics don\u2019t necessarily want to build walls of complex verbiage between their research and public understanding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hunter.cuny.edu\/sociology\/faculty\/nancy-foner\">Nancy Foner<\/a> gives us a refreshing dose of plain language with three short bullet points on immigration reform in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/thenextamerica\/immigration\/impact-of-immigration-3-points-by-sociology-professor-nancy-foner-20130131?mrefid=site_search\"><em>National Journal\u2019s<\/em> series<\/a> on demography and public policy issues. In under 300 words, Foner breaks down our understanding of the U.S.\u2013Mexican Border, changes the conversation about immigrants\u2019 work ethics, and gives data a reality check. Her clincher is that policymakers radically underestimate<i> <\/i>the number of children with U.S. citizenship who face instability because their <i>parents<\/i> are undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is a striking example of the how researchers with a handful of key facts and a targeted understanding of where the policy talk needs to change can break down the barriers between research and practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all appreciate some theoretical noodling now and again, but it is important to remember that social science research can still bring key information into national debates. When major policy issues are at stake, academics don\u2019t necessarily want to build walls of complex verbiage between their research and public understanding. Nancy Foner gives us a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[89,39115,26],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-public-sociology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}