Cybelle Fox on Race, Immigration, & Welfare Policy at Princeton (3-14-13)

Cybelle Fox is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.

http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/cybelle-fox
http://healthpolicyscholars.org/cybelle-fox
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/socialpol/news/news.htm

Cybelle Fox received a B.A. in history and economics from UC San Diego in 1997 and a Ph.D. in sociology and social policy from Harvard University in 2007. Her main research interests include race and ethnic relations, the American welfare state, immigration, historical sociology, and political sociology. In her new book, Three Worlds of Relief (Princeton University Press, 2012), Fox compares the incorporation of blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants in the American welfare system from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Her next project focuses on the politics of extending or withholding social welfare assistance to non-citizens from the New Deal to the present. Her work has appeared in the American Behavioral Scientist, American Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Education, Political Science Quarterly, and Sociological Methods and Research. She is also co-author of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings (Basic Books, 2004).

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9754.html

Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth century to the dark days of the Depression, Cybelle Fox finds that, despite rampant nativism, European immigrants received generous access to social welfare programs. The communities in which they lived invested heavily in relief. Social workers protected them from snooping immigration agents, and ensured that noncitizenship and illegal status did not prevent them from receiving the assistance they needed. But that same helping hand was not extended to Mexicans and blacks. Fox reveals, for example, how blacks were relegated to racist and degrading public assistance programs, while Mexicans who asked for assistance were deported with the help of the very social workers they turned to for aid.  Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Fox paints a riveting portrait of how race, labor, and politics combined to create three starkly different worlds of relief. She debunks the myth that white America's immigrant ancestors pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, unlike immigrants and minorities today. Three Worlds of Relief challenges us to reconsider not only the historical record but also the implications of our past on contemporary debates about race, immigration, and the American welfare state.

http://www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org/sites/default/files/ssn_key_findings_fox_on_race_immigration_and_the_welfare_state.pdf

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This was the second lecture of the Center for Migration & Development Spring Colloquium Series at Princeton University.

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