The Chronicle of Higher Education

Scholars Cook Up a New Melting Pot

Questioning old models of assimilation, social scientists examine the experience of recent Latin American immigrants

By DAVID GLENN

Los Angeles

One day in January, Ana Luz Gonzalez, a Ph.D. candidate in urban planning at the University of California at Los Angeles, drove across town to visit a day laborers' center. Patched together in a fenced-in corner of a Home...

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