Immigration and America's Urban Revival

"The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies." - Robert J. Sampson, Summer 2015 issue, The American Prospect.

["This article is based on a longer paper that will appear in Thomas Sugrue and Domenic Vitiello, eds., Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization (University of Pennsylvania Press)."]

- Robert J. Sampson is  Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative.