Abstract
Over the past few decades, immigration has become a central issue in scholarly and policy debates. While scholarship has worked to uncover underlying mechanisms, the public debate has been too often informed by questions of assimilability and the rule of law drawing distinctions that hold up certain subgroups within a community as deserving and others as undeserving. This introduction to the special issue briefly outlines the theoretical and public debates while describing the articles in the special issue.
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