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Immigrants and Boomers:
Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America
    

By Dowell Myers                        

New York: Russell Sage Foundation,

March 2007.

Link to Publisher for Information 

Read Chapter 1, The Introduction.

New Reviews (from Publisher)

Audrey Singer, “review in the Journal of the American Planning Association,” Autumn 2007, pp. 472-73.

Sammis White, “review in Economic Development Quarterly,” 2008, pp. 180-181.

Irene Bloemraad, “review essay in Contemporary Sociology,” July 2008, pp. 295-98.

Robert C. Smith, “review essay in Contemporary Sociology,” July 2008, pp. 298-302.

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                --Henry Cisneros

                --Richard Alba

                --John Mollenkopf

                --Marta Tienda

Selected news media coverage 

Miriam Jordan, “Boomers’ Good Life Tied to Better Life for Immigrants,” Wall Street Journal, May 7, 2007

Jeffrey Rabin, A Q&A column with Dowell Myers, Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2007

D’Vera Cohn, “The Divergent Paths of Baby Boomers and Immigrants,” Population Reference Bureau, March 2007

Peter Schrag, “Guess Who Will have to Help with Your Retirement?” Sacramento Bee, Feb. 21, 2007  

Testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary hearing on immigration (Ellis Island, March 20, 2007)judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/Myers070330.pdf 

Podcast of an interview April 2, 2007 about the issues in the book by Robert Greene in the Zocalo series through KPCC: http://radiotime.com/ProgramDetails.aspx?ProgramId=66259 [Go to Monday, Apr. 2] 

Video Broadcast of Myers testimony in the California Senate before the Select Committee on Immigration and the Economy, chaired by Senator Gilbert Cedillo, June 9, 2008. [Note: Myers presentation begins in the 27th minute of the broadcast.]

Presentation “Immigrants and Boomers” for the National Association of Business Economists, January 2008

Updated Dec 5, 2007

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