Behind the Badge
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Appendix A: References
Baker, Bryan and Nancy Rytina. 2013. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2012.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, March. Bean, Frank D., R. Corona, R. Tuirán and K. Woodrow-Lafield. 1998. “The Quantification of Migration Between Mexico and the United States.” In Migration Between […]
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Anderson, Monica. 2015. “A Rising Share of the U.S. Black Population Is Foreign Born; 9 Percent Are Immigrants; and While Most Are from the Caribbean, Africans Drive Recent Growth.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, April. Barro, Robert and Jong-Wha Lee. 2013. “A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010.” Journal of Development Economics 104 […]
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