ABSTRACT

The study of lawyers and legal professionals has long been fertile ground for socio-legal research. Such inquiries typically emphasize the role of these attorneys in shaping social processes and dealing with social problems, for example, with respect to class, gender, and racial inequality in the profession. By contrast, we present a macro-sociological study that examines how immigrant status influences income stratification among lawyers working in the United States. Contributing to the emerging field of legal demography, we use US Census data to analyze income differences between US-born and immigrant lawyers. The findings unveil how these differences are not due to immigrant status alone, but rather the result of other factors such as race, ethnicity, and gender in combination with immigrant status. Therefore, this inquiry contributes to the literature on the legal profession, law and society, and sociology of work by proposing an intersectional component to the debate on stratification and income inequality among lawyers.

摘要

长期以来，对律师和法律专业人士的研究一直是社会法律研究的沃土。此类调查通常强调这些律师在塑造社会进程和处理社会问题（例如职业中的阶级、性别和种族不平等）方面的作用。相比之下，我们提出了一项宏观社会学研究，研究移民身份如何影响在美国工作的律师的收入分层。为新兴的法律人口学领域做出贡献，我们使用美国人口普查数据来分析美国出生和移民律师之间的收入差异。研究结果揭示了这些差异如何不仅仅由于移民身份，而是其他因素（如种族、民族和性别）与移民身份相结合的结果。所以，