Author Dr. Nicole Kreisberg, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at Penn State presented her newest work 1 in 100: Latino Immigrants’ Unlikely Climb to the Top of the Labor Market to a panel of critics on Monday, September 9, 2024. The book will be published by the University of Chicago Press.
Out of every 100 Latino/a/x immigrants, only 1 works in the elite labor force-as doctors, engineers, or financial analysts. Why is the largest immigrant group in the U.S. the least represented in jobs most Americans deem a ‘success’? Based on 100 interviews which follow Latino immigrants across their journeys from school to work, this book argues that every institution shepherding students to the workplace become interconnected institutions of marginalization for Latino immigrants. To rectify that inequality, laws, schools, and workplaces need systemic, cross-institutional change.
The panel included:
- Filiz Garip, Princeton University
- Katharine Donato, Georgetown University
- Kathryn Edin, Princeton University
- Roger Waldinger, UCLA
- Sarah Damaske, Penn State
- Jenny Van Hook, Penn State
A Q&A session followed the panel.
Immigration is the focus of the current offering in the College of the Liberal Arts’ “Moments of Change” initiative—an undertaking that brings students, faculty, staff, and alumni together to explore what it means to live through historic and contemporary times of change. Through spring 2025, “Moments of Change: Immigration, Identity, and Citizenship” will examine mass migration and highlight the ongoing work of students, faculty, staff, and alumni in that regard.
The event was sponsored by the Social Science Research Institute, Population Research Institute, School of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, and Migration Diversity Initiative.
