Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration Volume 1: Theoretical Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco; Carola Suárez-Orozco; Desirée Baolian Qin-Hilliard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States
Latin American Immigration to the United States
Social Forces Unleashed After 1965
Caribbean Migration to the Mainland: A Review of Adaptive Experiences
Is the New Immigration Less Skilled Than the Old?
Reframing the Immigration Debate
The Structural Embeddedness of Demand for Mexican Immigrant Labor: New Evidence from California
Ties That Bind: Immigration and Immigrant Families in the United States
Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities
The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field
Undocumented Migration Since IRCA: An Overall Assessment
Immigration as Foreign Policy in U.S.-Latin American Relations
Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans
Acknowledgments