Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States / Nancy Foner, Ruben G. Rumbaut, and Steven J. Gold
Part I. Studying Immigration: Disciplinary Perspectives and Future Research Needs
Chapter 1. Immigration Research in the United States: Social Origins and Future Orientations / Ruben G. Rumbaut
The Sociological Roots and Multidisciplinary Future of Immigration Research / Mary C. Waters
Anthropology and the Study of Immigration / Nancy Foner
Race and Immigration History / George J. Sanchez
The Politics of Immigration Policy: An Externalist Perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg
Immigration Studies and the Social Science Research Council / Josh DeWind
Chapter 3. Filling in Some Holes: Six Areas of Needed Immigration Research / Herbert J. Gans
Part II. Studies of Immigration: Research from a New Generation of Scholars
Chapter 4. Which Face? Whose Nation? Immigration, Public Health, and the Construction of Disease at America's Ports and Borders, 1891 to 1928 / Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern
Chapter 5. "The Exported to Care": A Transnational History of Filipino Nurse Migration to the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy
Chapter 6. Transnational Political Strategies: The Case of Mexican Indigenous Migrants / Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Chapter 7. Naturalization Under Changing Conditions of Membership: Dominican Immigrants in New York City / Greta Gilbertson and Audrey Singer
Chapter 8. Participation in Liberal Democracy: The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the United States / Jane Junn
Chapter 9. The Rise of Nonstate Actors in Migration Regulation in the Unites States and Europe: Changing the Gatekeepers or Bringing Back the State? / Gallya Lahav
Chapter 10. One Border, Two Crossings: Mexican Migration to the United States as a Two-Way Process / Steven S. Zahniser
Chapter 11. Immigrant Labor Recruitment: U.S. Agribusiness and Undocumented Migration from Mexico / Fred Krissman
Chapter 12. Skilled Immigrants and Cerebreros: Foreign-Born Engineers and Scientists in the High Technology Industy of Silicon Valley / Rafael Alarcon
Chapter 13. Immigrant and African American Competition: Jewish, Korean, and African American Entrepreneurs / Jennifer Lee
Chapter 14. Outsourcing the Hearth: The Impact of Immigration on Labor Allocation in American Families / Kathy A. Kaufman
Chapter 15. En el Norte la Mujer Manda: Gender, Generation, and Geography in a Mexican Transnational Community / Jennifer S. Hirsch
Chapter 16. Dialing 911 in Nuer: Gender Transformations and Domestic Violence in a Midwestern Sudanese Refugee Community / Jon D. Holtzman
Chapter 17. Language, Race, and the New Immigrants: The Example of Southern Italians / Nancy C. Carnevale
Chapter 18. A New White Flight? The Dynamics of Neighborhood Change in the 1980s / Ingrid Gould Ellen
Chapter 19. Transnational Community and its Ethnic Consequences: The Return Migration and the Transformation of Ethnicity of Japanese-Peruvians / Ayumi Takenaka
Chapter 20. Migrants Participate across Borders: Toward an Understanding of Forms and Consequences / Peggy Levitt
Index