ABSTRACT

The essays gathered here discuss theoretical and policy issues and themes such as the political and economic context of migration, job competition, labor organizing, changing ethnic and "race" relations, immigrant women in the economy and contemporary immigration politics and contribute to our understanding of the historical and contemporary dimensions of Asian and Latino migration in a changing global economy.

part |10 pages

General Introduction

part 1|110 pages

Immigration and Migration

chapter 1|31 pages

Origins and Destinies

Immigration to the United States Since World War II

chapter 3|17 pages

United States Policy Towards Asian Immigrants

Contemporary Developments in Historical Perspective

chapter 4|30 pages

Central American Migration

A Framework for Analysis

part 2|69 pages

Immigrants in a Changing Economy

chapter 5|15 pages

Gender, Class, Family, and Migration

Puerto Rican Women in Chicago

chapter 7|19 pages

Scientists and Engineers

chapter 8|7 pages

Chinese Staff and Workers' Association

A Model for Organizing in the Changing Economy?

part 3|92 pages

Borders and Beyond

chapter 9|23 pages

Panethnicity in the United States

A Theoretical Framework

chapter 10|24 pages

Divided Fates

Immigrant Children in a Restructured U.S. Economy

chapter 11|25 pages

Social Identities—A Framework for Studying the Adaptations of Immigrants and Ethnics

The Adaptations of Mexicans in the United States

chapter 12|14 pages

Racialized Boundaries, Class Relations, and Cultural Politics

The Asian-American and Latino Experience

part 4|64 pages

Politics, Policy, and Community

chapter 13|28 pages

Compatriots or Competitors?

Job Competition Between Foreign- and U.S.-Born Angelenos

chapter 14|9 pages

Immigration Policy

Making and Remaking Asian Pacific America

chapter 15|8 pages

Proposition 187 in California

chapter 16|14 pages

Recrafting the Common Good

Immigration and Community