Science versus advocacy in research on immigrantsFootnote¹

I thank M.D.R. Evans and F.L. Jones for their comments, although they do not necessarily agree with everything I have said. The second half of the paper draws heavily on a report written jointly with them (Kelley, Jones and Evans 1986)

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