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Demography and the Social Contract

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  • Marta Tienda

    (Population Association of America)

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As the most demographically complex nation in the world, the United States faces ever more formidable challenges to fulfill its commitment to the democratic values of equity and inclusion as the foreign-born share of the population increases. Immigration, the major source of contemporary population diversification, provides several lessons about how to prepare for that future within a framework of social justice and how to realign recent demographic trends with cherished democratic principles. A review of historical and contemporary controversies about representation of the foreign born and alien suffrage both illustrates the re-emergence of ascriptive civic hierarchies and highlights some potentially deleterious social and civic consequences of recent demographic trends.

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  • Marta Tienda, 2002. "Demography and the Social Contract," Working Papers 305, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Office of Population Research..
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    2. Kate H. Choi & Marta Tienda & Deborah Cobb-Clark & Mathias Sinning, 2011. "Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States," Ruhr Economic Papers 0261, Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Dortmund, Universität Duisburg-Essen.
    3. Choi, Kate H. & Tienda, Marta & Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. & Sinning, Mathias, 2011. "Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States," IZA Discussion Papers 5750, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Daniel Lichter, 2013. "Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 50(2), pages 359-391, April.
    5. Marta Tienda, 2017. "Multiplying Diversity: Family Unification and the Regional Origins of Late-Age US Immigrants," International Migration Review, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51(3), pages 727-756, September.
    6. Galea, Sandro & Freudenberg, Nicholas & Vlahov, David, 2005. "Cities and population health," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 60(5), pages 1017-1033, March.
    7. Daniel D. Oladejo & Kruti R. Lehenbauer, 2018. "Revisiting Hawes: Social Capital and Racial Disparity in Incarceration Rates," Proceedings of the 11th International RAIS Conference, November 19-20, 2018 08DO, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.

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    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

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