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Tomás R. Jiménez’s The other side of assimilation: how immigrants are changing American life

The role of contemporary immigration in shaping American society and life has become a hotly contested issue within American society. The election of Donald Trump to the White House highlighted the contested nature of immigration within American society in ways that have surprised many scholars in the field. The conversation we include in this Symposium about Tomás Jiménez’s The Other Side of Assimilation provides an opportunity to engage with at least some facets of this situation. The critical commentaries by Maurice Crul, Miri Song, Natasha Warikoo and Philip Kasinitz engage with important facets of Jiménez’s account of the “relational assimilation” the impacts both on immigrants and established Americans in diverse ways. In particular, all four commentaries are able to engage with what is innovative and challenging about Jiménez’s research as well as to point to the need for more research to inform both academic research agendas as well as public debates about immigration and change in American life. The Symposium concludes with a Rejoinder by Jiménez that seeks both to engage with the main themes of the four commentaries as well as to explore possible avenues for future scholarship and research. As Editors, we very much hope that the conversation about The Other Side of Assimilation will become part of a broader engagement with cutting edge scholarship on the changing contours of immigration in the contemporary global environment.