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Authors: Nancy Foner (Editor), Steven J. (Eds.) Gold, Ruben G. Rumbaut, Steven J. Gold (Editor), Ruben G. Rumbaut
ISBN-13: 9780871542618, ISBN-10: 0871542617
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Nancy Foner

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	Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States	1
Ch. 1	Immigration Research in the United States: Social Origins and Future Orientations	23
Ch. 2	The View from the Disciplines and the Social Science Research Council
	The Sociological Roots and Multidisciplinary Future of Immigration Research	44
	Anthropology and the Study of Immigration	49
	Race and Immigration History	54
	The Politics of Immigration Policy: An Externalist Perspective	60
	Immigration Studies and the Social Science Research Council	69
Ch. 3	Filling in Some Holes: Six Areas of Needed Immigration Research	76
Ch. 4	Which Face? Whose Nation? Immigration, Public Health, and the Construction of Disease at America's Ports and Borders, 1981 to 1982	93
Ch. 5	"The Exported to Care": A Transnational History of Filipino Nurse Migration to the United States	113
Ch. 6	Transnational Political Strategies: The Case of Mexican Indigenous Migrants	134
Ch. 7	Naturalization Under Changing Conditions of Membership: Dominican Immigrants in New York City	157
Ch. 8	Participation in Liberal Democracy: The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the United States	187
Ch. 9	The Rise of Nonstate Actors in Migration Regulation in the United States and Europe: Changing the Gatekeepers or Bringing Back the State?	215
Ch. 10	One Border, Two Crossings: Mexican Migration to the United States at a Two-Way Process	242
Ch. 11	Immigrant Labor Recruitment: U.S. Agribusiness and Undocumented Migration from Mexico	277
Ch. 12	Skilled Immigrants and Cerebreros: Foreign-Born Engineers and Scientists in the High Technology Industry of Silicon Valley	301
Ch. 13	Immigrant and African American Competition: Jewish, Korean, and African American Entrepreneurs	322
Ch. 14	Outsourcing the Hearth: the Impact of Immigration on Labor Allocation in American Families	345
Ch. 15	En el Norte La Mujer Manda: Gender, Generation, and Geography in a Mexican Transnational Community	369
Ch. 16	Dialing 911 in Nuer: Gender Transformations and Domestic Violence in a Widwestern Sudanese Refugee Community	390
Ch. 17	Language, Race, and the New Immigrants: The Example of Southern Italians	409
Ch. 18	A New White Flight? the Dynamics of Neighborhood Change in the 1980s	423
Ch. 19	Transnational Community and its Ethnic Consequences: The Return Migration and the Transformation of Ethnicity of Japanese-Peruvians	442
Ch. 20	Migrants Participate Across Borders: Toward an Understanding of Forms and Consequences	459
	Index	481

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