The Handbook of International Migration

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ISBN: 9780871542441 | 0871542447
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/1/1999

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Overviews the state of immigration research, drawing on recent social science theory and demographic research to examine the effects and implications of immigration in the US. Examines current theories of international migration and the forces that motivate people to migrate, then focuses on how immigrants are changed after their arrival, and looks at the social, economic, and political effects of the surge of new immigrants of American society.

Contributors

Foreword

Reynolds Farley

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

(20)

International Migration and Immigration Research: The State of the Field

Part I Theories and Concepts of International Migration

Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities

(13)

Alejandro Portes

Why Does Immigration Occur? A Theorretical Synthesis

(19)

Douglas S. Massey

The Role of Gender, Households, and Social Networks in the Migration Process: A Review and Appraisal

(18)

Patricia R. Pessar

Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy

(23)

Aristide R. Zolberg

Transmigrants and Nation-States: Something Old and Something New in the U. S. Immigrant Experience

(26)

Nina Glick Schiller

Theories of International Migration and Immigration: A Preliminary Reconnaissance of Ideal Types

120

(17)

Charles Hirschman

Part II Immigrant Adaptation, Assimilation, and Incorporation

Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration

137

(24)

Richard Alba

Victor Nee

Toward a Reconciliation of ``Assimilation'' and ``Pluralism'': The Interplay of Acculturation and Ethnic Retention

161

(11)

Herbert J. Gans

Assimilation and Its Discontents: Ironies and Paradoxes

172

(24)

Ruben G. Rumbaut

Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation

196

(16)

Min Zhou

Social and Linguistic Aspects of Assimilation Today

212

(11)

David E. Lopez

Immigrants, Past and Present: A Reconsideration

223

(16)

Joel Perlmann

Roger Waldinger

Immigrants' Socioeconomic Progress Post-1965: Forging Mobility or Survival?

239

(18)

Rebeca Raijman

Marta Tienda

The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes

257

(18)

Nancy Foner

Part III The American Response to Immigration

Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans

275

(19)

Gary Gerstle

Immigration and Political Incorporation in the Contemporary United States

294

(25)

David Plotke

Historical Perspectives on the Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States

319

(23)

Susan B. Carter

Richard Sutch

Immigration and the Receiving Economy

342

(18)

Rachel M. Friedberg

Jennifer Hunt

Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants and the Shrinking Welfare State

360

(11)

Thomas J. Espenshade

Gregory A. Huber

Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late-Twentieth-Century America

371

(12)

George J. Sanchez

Instead of a Sequel, or, How I Lost My Subject

383

(7)

John Higham

Immigration Reform and the Browning of America: Tensions, Conflicts, and Community Instability in Metropolitan Los Angeles

390

(22)

James H. Johnson Jr.

Walter C. Farrell Jr.

Chandra Guinn

Urban Political Conflicts and Alliances: New York and Los Angeles Compared

412

(11)

John Hull Mollenkopf

U. S. Immigration and Changing Relations Between African Americans and Lations

423

(10)

Nestor Rodriguez

References

433

(54)

Index

487

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