ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to advance the conversation between students of comparative ethnicity and scholars of immigration.2 This conversation has given rise to a new concern with ethnic boundary-making in immigrant societies. instead of treating ethnicity as an unproblematic explanans-providing self-evident units of analysis and self-explanatory variables-the boundary-making paradigm takes ethnicity as an explanandum, as a variable outcome of specific processes to be analytically uncovered and empirically specified. The ethnic boundary making perspective has
particular advantages for the study of immigrant societies, as a number of authors have suggested recently.
