Theoretical Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration

by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco (Editor), Carola Suárez-Orozco (Editor), Desirée Qin-Hilliard (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604806
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction vii

Volume Introduction ix

The New Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States Douglas S. Massey 1

Latin American Immigration to the United States Marcelo Suárez-Orozco 23

Social Forces Unleashed After 1965 Bill Ong Hing 41

Caribbean Migration to the Mainland: A Review of Adaptive Experiences John A. Garcia 84

Is the New Immigration Less Skilled Than the Old? Barry R. Chiswick 96

Refraining the Immigration Debate George J. Borjas 121

The Structural Embeddedness of Demand for Mexican Immigrant Labor: New Evidence from California Wayne A. Cornelius 139

Ties That Bind: Immigration and Immigrant Families in the United States Rubén G. Rumbaut 181

Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities Alejandro Portes 225

The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field Alejandro Portes Luis E. Guarnizo Patricia Landolt 253

Undocumented Migration Since IRCA: An Overall Assessment Jeffrey S. Passel Frank D. Bean Barry Edmonston 275

Immigration as Foreign Policy in U.S.-Latin American Relations Jorge I. Dominguez 290

Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans Rubén G. Rumbaut 308

Acknowledgments 347