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This novel analysis of contemporary Asian and Pacific Islander immigration to the United States offers the most up-to-date synthesis of findings on global migration today. It presents a series of principles regarding new double-step patterns in population movements at the end of the twentieth century. This discussion of new paths and modes of world migration in a rimless world is intended for a broad, inter-disciplinary audience of students, teachers, and professionals in ethnic studies, U.S. history, Asian and Asian-American studies, studies relating to the Pacific Rim, sociology, demographics, and international relations.
This study of multi-level and multi-directional global migration opens with an analysis of world migration theory, macro and micro factors in international migration, and a review of research about recent migration patterns. Next, this study offers twenty-seven propositions about factors that have affected decisions of peoples to move elsewhere, their adjustment to new countries, their return migrations, and the impact of international migration. Asian and Pacific Islander immigration to the United States is examined along with extensive data based on U.S. immigration records. This fourth wave of immigration to the United States is then analyzed in detail. Accompanying this data and analysis is a model of double stepwise international migration--extremely useful for those studying the intricacies of global patterns of migration. Barkan concludes with other data on mobility variables, an appendix, and an index.
List of contents
Introduction
A World Migration System: Background and TheoryHistorical Background
Macro and Micro Factors in International Migration: Local and Regional Movements
Decision Making
Complexity and Interdependence
Metaphor and Reality: Choices and Networks
Macro and Micro Factors in International Migration: State Policies
Moving On: Indirect Migration
The Fourth Era: Contemporary Migration in a Rimless World
Revising Ravenstein and Lee: Reconceptualizing World Migration Patterns
Conclusion
Asian and Pacific Islander Immigration and a Model of International MigrationA Model of Double Stepwise International Migration
Methodological Notes
Background: Immigration, Issues, and Trends
The Impact of Immigration Reforms, 1940-85
Asian and Pacific Islander Migration within the Pacific Rim
Mobility I: The Variable of Last Residence versus Country of Birth
Mobility II: The Variable of Prior Entry versus No Prior Entry into the United States
The Variable of the Classification of Aliens for Admission as Permanent Resident Aliens
An Overview of the Migration Model: General Patterns, Occupations and Gender, 1972-85
ConclusionAppendix
Index
About the author
ELLIOTT ROBERT BARKAN, is Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at California State University at San Bernardino. He is the author of
California's New Americans: Analyzing History with Computers (1988),
Portal of Portals: Speaking of the United States 'as Though It Were New York'--and Vice Versa (1991),
New Origins, New Homelands: Immigration to Selected Sunbelt Cities Since 1965 (1991), and
The Immigrant and American Society, 1920s-1990s (forthcoming, 1993). He has written at some length on immigration and naturalization trends in the United States.
