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This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration, this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.
List of contents
Borjas, G.J. 'The Economics of Immigrants.' Journal of Economic Literature 32 (1994). Huber, G.A. and Espenshade, T.J. 'Neo-isolationism, Balanced-budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants.' International Migration Review 31 (1997). Simon, J. 'Public Expenditures on Immigrants to the United States, Past and Present.' Population and Development Review 22 (1996). Friedberg, R.M. and Hunt, J. 'The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth.' Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (1995). Altonji, J.G. and Card, D. 'The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-skilled Natives.' In J. Abowd and R. Freeman, Eds., Immigration, Trade and the Labor Market (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Bean, F.D., Lowell, B.L. and Taylor, L.J. 'Undocumented Mexican Immigrants and the Earnings of Other Workers in the United States.' Demography 25 (1988). Chiswick, B.R. 'The Effects of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men.' Journal of Political Economy 86 (1978). Waldinger, R. and Gilbertson, G. 'Immigrant Progress: Ethnic and Gender Differences Among US Immigrants in the 1980s.' Sociological Perspective 37 (1994). Lindstron, D.P. and Massey, D. 'Selective Immigration, Cohort Quality and Models of Immigrant Assimilation.' Social Science Research 23 (1994). Nee, V. and Sanders, J. 'On the Road to Parity: Determinants of the Socioeconomic Achievements of Asian Americans.' Ethnic and Racial Studies 8 (1985). Hirschman, C. and Wong, M.G. 'Socioeconomic Gains of Asian Americans, Blacks and Hispanics: 1960-1976.' American Journal of Sociology 90 (1984). Myers, D. and Lee, S.W. 'Immigrant Trajectories into Homeownership: A Temporal Analysis of Residential Assimilation.' International Migration Review 32 (1998). Tienda, M. and Singer, A. 'Wage Mobility of Undocumented Workers in the US.' International Migration Review 29 (1995). Portes, A. 'The Social Origins of the Cuban Enclave Economy of Miami.' Sociological Perspectives 30 (1987). Smith, J.P. and Edmonston, B. 'Summary.' In The New Americans: Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997). List of Recommended Readings
About the author
Professors Suárez-Orozco are co-directors of the Harvard Immigration Project. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is an anthropologist at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and leading authority in the field of immigration. Carola Suárez-Orozco is a cultural psychologist, lecturer, and research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Center for Latin Amercan Studies. Desirée Qin-Hilliard is a Ph.D. student in the Harward Graduate School of Education.
