The New Immigrant in the American Economy: 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:	9780367604844
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	400
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 Economics of Immigrants George J. Borjas 1

Public Expenditures on Immigrants to the United States, Past and Present Julian L. Simon 53

Neo-Isolationism, Balanced-Budget Conservatism, and the Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants Gregory A. Huber Thomas J. Espenshade 65

The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth Rachel M. Friedberg Jennifer Hunt 89

The Effects of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-Born Men Barry R. Chiswick 111

The Effects of Immigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Less-Skilled Natives Joseph G. Altonji David Card 137

Undocumented Mexican Immigrants and the Earnings of Other Workers in the United States Frank D. Bean B. Lindsay Lowell Lowell J. Taylor 171

Wage Mobility of Undocumented Workers in the United States Marta Tienda Audrey Singer 186

Immigrant's Progress: Ethnic and Gender Differences Among U.S. Immigrants in the 1980s Roger Waldinger Gregory Gilbertson 213

Selective Emigration, Cohort Quality, and Models of Immigrant Assimilation David P. Lindstron Douglas S. Massey 227

The Road to Parity: Determinants of the Socioeconomic Achievements of Asian Americans Victor Nee Jimy Sanders 263

Socioeconomic Gains of Asian Americans, Blacks, and Hispanics: 1960-1976 Charles Hirschman Morrison G. Wong 282

Immigrant Trajectories into Homeowner ship: A Temporal Analysis of Residential Assimilation Dowell Myers Seong Woo Lee 307

The Social Origins of the Cuban En-clave Economy of Miami Alejandro Portes 340

Summary James P. Smith Barry Edmonston 373

Acknowledgments 387