Immigration research for a new century : multidisciplinary perspectives /

Immigration research for a new century : multidisciplinary perspectives / Nancy Foner, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Steven J. Gold, editors. - xiv, 491 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Based on a conference held at Columbia University in June 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immigration research in the United States : social origins and future orientations / The sociological roots and multidisciplinary future of immigration research / Anthropology and the study of immigration / Race and immigration history / The politics of immigration policy : an externalist perspective / Immigration studies and the Social Science Research Council / Filling in some holes : six areas of needed immigration research / Which face? : Whose nation? Immigration, public health, and the construction of disease at America's ports and bordrers, 1891 to 1928 / "The exported to care" : a transnational history of Filipino nurse migration to the United States / Transnational political strategies : the case of Mexican indigenous migrants / Naturalization under changing conditions of membership : Dominican immigrants in New York City / Participation in liberal democracy : the political assimilation of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the United States / The rise of nonstate actors in migration regulation in the United States and Europe : changing the gatekeepers or bringing back the state? / One border, two crossings : Mexican migration to the United States as a two-way process / Immigrant labor recruitment : U.S. agribusness and undocumented migration from Mexico / Skilled immigrants and cerebreros : foreign-born engineers and scientists in the high technology industry of Silicon Valley / Immigrant and African American competition : Jewish, Korean, and African American entrepreneurs / Outsourcing the hearth : the impact of immigration on labor allocation in American families / En el norte la mujer manda : gender, generation, and geography in a Mexican transnational community / Dialing 911 in Nuer : gender transformations and domestic violence in a Midwestern Sudanese refugee community / Language, race, and the new immigrants : the example of Southern Italians / A new white flight : the dynamics of neighborhood change in the 1980s / Transnational community and its ethnic consequences : the return migration and the transformation of ethnicity of Japanese-Peruvians / Migrants participate across borders : toward an understanding of forms and consequences / Nancy Foner, Rubin G. Rumbaut, Steven J. Gold -- Ruben G. Rumbaut -- Mary C. Waters -- Nancy Foner -- George J. Sanchez -- Aristide R. Zolberg -- Josh DeWind -- Herbert J. Gans -- Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern -- Catherine Ceniza Choy -- Gaspar Rivera-Salgado -- Greta Gilbertson and Audrey Singer -- Jane Junn -- Gallya Lahav -- Steven S. Zahniser -- Fred Krissman -- Rafael Alarcon -- Jennifer Lee -- Kathy A. Kaufman -- Jennifer S. Hirsch -- Jon D. Holtzman -- Nancy C. Carnevale -- Ingrid Gould Ellen -- Ayumi Takenaka -- Peggy Levitt. Introduction : Immigration and immigration research in the United States / Part I. Studying immigration : disciplinary perspectives and future research needs -- Part II. Studies of immigration : research from a new generation of scholars : political economy, membership, and the state --

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Emigration and immigration--Research

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