Contributors

Foreword

Reynolds Farley

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

Alejandro Portes

Why Does Immigration Occur? A Theorretical Synthesis

Douglas S. Massey

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

Patricia R. Pessar

Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy

Aristide R. Zolberg

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

Nina Glick Schiller

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

Charles Hirschman

Part II Immigrant Adaptation, Assimilation, and Incorporation

Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration

Richard Alba

Victor Nee

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

Herbert J. Gans

Assimilation and Its Discontents: Ironies and Paradoxes

Ruben G. Rumbaut

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

Min Zhou

Social and Linguistic Aspects of Assimilation Today

David E. Lopez

Immigrants, Past and Present: A Reconsideration

Joel Perlmann

Roger Waldinger

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

Rebeca Raijman

Marta Tienda

The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes

Nancy Foner

Part III The American Response to Immigration

Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans

Gary Gerstle

Immigration and Political Incorporation in the Contemporary United States

David Plotke

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

Susan B. Carter

Richard Sutch

Immigration and the Receiving Economy

Rachel M. Friedberg

Jennifer Hunt

Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants and the Shrinking Welfare State

Thomas J. Espenshade

Gregory A. Huber

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

George J. Sanchez

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

John Higham

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

James H. Johnson Jr.

Walter C. Farrell Jr.

Chandra Guinn

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

John Hull Mollenkopf

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

Nestor Rodriguez

References

Index