IRP Book Talk: Robert Courtney Smith on "Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility"

There are many factors that influence whether Mexican immigrants to the United States are able to achieve upward mobility. In his new book, " Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility ," Robert Courtney Smith shares research conducted over twenty years and involving nearly one hundred children of Mexican immigrants in New York City . He examines how being documented or not acts as a master status, and how that is expressed through choices about education, employment, social networks, expressions of masculinity, and romantic and familial relationships. Robert Courtney Smith is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs and in the Sociology Department at the Graduate Center at CUNY.

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IRP Book Talk: Robert Courtney Smith on "Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility" is an episode from Poverty Research & Policy by Institute for Research on Poverty.

This episode is 37:53 long.

This episode was published on Feb 24, 2025.

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