ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book explains sociologists are often dismissive of agency, preferring instead to focus on social structures, external conditions, broad historical forces, and factors like the economy or public policy. In states with larger populations of Hispanic and Asian immigrants, people are more likely to marry outside of their race, and they are most likely to marry whites: 43 percent of interracial marriages were white-Hispanic couples, 14 percent were white-Asian couples, and 12 percent were white-black couples. It is easy to talk about migrants as a homogeneous, unified group, or migration and immigration as a singular, coherent process and set of patterns, but nothing could be further from the truth. Migrants move for many different reasons, encounter many different kinds of societies and social conditions, and bring with them many different kinds of resources, interests, and limitations.
