The United States foreign-born population has quadrupled since the 1960s. In 2021, one in seven US households were headed by a foreign-born resident. Around half of these…
Sharon Cornelissen, Christine Jang-Trettien
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April 25, 2023
In recent years, gentrification has captured the imagination of sociologists and the public alike, dominating conversations about the transformation of cities from New York…
Sharon Cornelissen, Daniel McCue, Raheem Hanifa
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January 5, 2023
Persistent racial and ethnic gaps in homeownership rates have recently led policy makers to create a range of programs and initiatives to expand and maintain Black…
Drawing on three years of fieldwork, this article explains the emergence and persistence of two conflicting styles of street life in Brightmoor, a depopulated, majority Black…
Most research on right‐wing populism has tried to explain the rise of populist movements and parties. While some have studied how neighborhood contexts and histories shape…
Nancy McArdle, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia
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November 20, 2017
This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard Joint…
This article proposes a rethinking of Bourdieu’s habitus as context-specific, multiple, and decentralized based on nine months of participant-observation fieldwork with…
W06-4: Metropolitan Boston, one of the nation’s largest urban areas, is in the midst of sweeping transformations. It is growing slowly in population but is sprawling…
Record numbers of foreign-born individuals and households currently reside in the United States, substantially affecting housing demand. As of 1998, the 11 million immigrant-…
Zhu Xiao Di, Nancy McArdle, George Masnick
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February 15, 2001
This paper addresses several basic questions regarding second homes: what is or should be counted as a second home; how many second homes exist in the United States; where…