Who belongs in America? Immigration has sparked a raging national debate — including in Farmers Branch, Texas, the first US city to make renters prove they are legal residents. Race isn’t the only reason that many white, middle-class people feel threatened by immigrants settling in their suburbs. They view it as a threat to their class status and their identity as Americans, say anthropologists Caroline Brettell and Faith Nibbs, Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
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Study of Farmers Branch, Texas: Immigrants seen as threat to white, middle-class ‘American’ identity
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