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Please view our conversation with the book authors of Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants.

The fight over immigration reform and immigrants’ rights in the U.S. has been marked by sharp swings in both public sentiment and official enforcement. In 2006, millions of Latino immigrants joined protests for immigration reform. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a policy granting work permits and protection from deportation to undocumented immigrants who entered the country before age 16, was enacted in 2012, despite a sharp increase in deportations during the Bush and Obama administrations. The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump prompted a surge in anti-immigrant sentiment which threatened DACA and other progressive immigration policies. In Holding Fast, political scientists James McCann and Michael Jones-Correa investigate whether and how these recent shifts have affected political attitudes and civic participation among Latino immigrants.

Book Authors:
James A. McCann is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.

Michael Jones-Correa is President’s Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Discussant:
Zoltan L. Hajnal is Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego.

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