Mass deportation is likely bad for housing prices

Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would have a negative effect on new homebuilding, leading to higher home prices, research finds.

Brian Maffly - U. Utah • futurity
Jan. 30, 2025 ~6 min

Deportation risk hasn’t been the same for all undocumented Mexican immigrants

In the US, undocumented Mexican men who are young, single, and less educated have the highest risk for deportation, no matter the political climate.

Carol Clark-Emory • futurity
Feb. 24, 2023 ~7 min


Postcards record costs of undocumented life

"Immigrants are often treated and talked about as a cost, a burden on the United States. But... what are the costs to them and their lives?"

Carrie Spector-Stanford • futurity
Jan. 25, 2023 ~9 min

Mexican immigrant experience varies by skin tone

Mexican immigrants with darker skin tones report more discrimination from US-born whites, a study in two cities finds.

Tufts University • futurity
Jan. 24, 2023 ~7 min

Book: Views on immigration haven’t been so polarized

Has immigration to the United States ever been more contentious or partisan? A new book explores the history.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
Nov. 29, 2022 ~10 min

Experts: Anti-Asian racism is snarled up with misogyny

Sara Savat-WUSTL • futurity
March 26, 2021 ~7 min

American teens see bullying immigrants as more ‘okay’

Teens whose parents were born in the US are more likely to think bullying is acceptable when the victim is an immigrant, researchers find.

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
Jan. 5, 2021 ~5 min

These words and views suggest who dehumanizes immigrants

The language Americans use and their support for certain policies like the death penalty indicate who's most likely to dehumanize immigrants.

Jim Barlow-Oregon • futurity
April 23, 2020 ~6 min


Staying undocumented seems safer to some immigrants

Some undocumented immigrants fear that holding a legal status would make more vulnerable to deportation. "You have to live cautiously," a woman named Marina says.

Melissa De Witte-Stanford • futurity
Feb. 10, 2020 ~5 min

No, immigrants aren’t moving between states for health care

New research debunks what some people have called the "magnet effect," an idea that immigrants will move states for better public health care benefits.

Melissa De Witte-Stanford • futurity
Nov. 25, 2019 ~5 min

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