Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of Second‐Generation Latinos.

Rendón's account revisits two arguments about the urban underclass and Mexican second-generation immigrant incorporation with refreshing new evidence urban experiences between 2007 and 2012. Rendón also refutes arguments about immigrant work ethics and upward assimilation of second-generation children. Through a longitudinal ethnographic study of two Los Angeles neighborhoods and their young adult Latino residents, María Rendón systematically collected and analyzed compelling evidence to render an important argument for reframing social science perspectives about the social mechanisms shaping life trajectories of second-generation immigrants. [Extracted from the article]