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Professor Roger Waldinger
Department of Sociology
UCLA
Hershey Hall 2525
Winter 2001
Telephone: 206-9233
Sociology 236: Immigration
This course seeks to familiarize students with major issues
and controversies in immigration research, with the long-term
goal of encouraging students to undertake research in this
field. The readings reflect the inter-disciplinary and pluralistic
nature of immigration research: each week's topic is organized
around the various perspectives that compete in this field.
The course is designed to be part of a two quarter sequence,
in which the first quarter is spent on a survey of the literature,
and the second is organized around students' individual
research projects. The two courses, however, stand alone:
students may enroll for the first quarter only; likewise,
those with the appropriate background can enroll in the
second quarter only, though only with my permission.
Course requirements: The basic requirement is to do the
readings. There are plenty of them and you need to stay
on top of the material at all times.
My teaching style is to have a structured discussion. This
means that everyone participates; those who don't raise
hands can expect to be called on, in every class.
Every other week, I will ask each student to write a memo,
in response to a question from me focusing on one or more
of the key issues raised by the week's readings. These memos
should be posted to the class web site by the Sunday evening
prior to our class meeting. Although the memos will be ungraded,
they will help shape our discussions.
Every following week, I will ask two or three students
to initiate the class discussion, with a brief 10-15 overview
and critique of some key reading. All other students will
be asked to write comments on the memos submitted by your
colleagues for the previous week's reading.
There will be a comprehensive, take-home final, due at
the end of exam period.
Readings: With the exception of readings available through
JSTOR, all assigned material will be contained in a reader,
which should be available shortly after the new year.
Office hours: Due to the exigencies of my day job as Chair,
I will only have office hours by appointment. Please contact
my assistant, Anna Laven (alaven@soc.ucla.edu), to set up
a meeting. I fully plan to be available to talk with students;
it's simply that times and dates will be irregular. Thanks
for your understanding.
Readings and Schedule
January 8
Session 1: New and Old Approaches to the Study of International
Migration Memos on readings
required
Readings:
Michael Todaro, 1969, "A Model of Labor Migration and Urban
Unemployment in Less-Developed Countries," American Economic
Review, 59: 138-48; (JSTOR)
Michael Piore, Birds of Passage, 1979: chapter
1 Elizabeth Petras, 1981, "The Global Labor Market in the
Modern World-Economy," in Global Trends in Migration, edited
by Mary M. Kritz, et. al., (Staten Island, NY: CMS Press);
Oded Stark, The Migration of Labor, London:
Basil Blackwell, 1991, chs. 2-3; Leslie Page Moch, Moving
Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650, 1992,
Chapter 1; Chapter 4, pp. 147-158;
George Borjas, Friends or Strangers, Basic,
1990, Chapter 1; Borjas, "Economic Theory and International
Migration," International Migration Review, V. 23, 1989:
457-86 (more technical version of chapter from book)
Douglas Massey, et. al., "Theories of International
Migration: A Review and Appraisal," Population and Development
Review, 19. 3 September 1993, 431-66 (JSTOR)
January 15
Session 2: "Inter"-"national" aspects
Student presentations
Readings:
Aristide Zolberg, "International Migration Policies in a
Changing World System," Pp. 241- 86 in Human Migration:
Patterns and Policies, edited by William McNeill and Ruth
Adams, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978;
Zolberg, "Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration
Policy," in C. Hirschman, et. al., The Handbook of International
Migration, New York: Russell Sage, 2000;
John Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Citizenship, and the State, New York: Cambridge,
2000, chapter 1.
Keith Fitzgerald, The Face of the Nation:
Immigration, the State, and the National Identity, Stanford:
Stanford U P, 1996, Chap 2;
Gary Freeman, "Modes of Immigration Policies
in Liberal Democratic Societies," International Migration
Review, 1995, plus comment by Brubaker and Freeman response;
T. Perlmutter. "Bringing parties back in -
modes of immigration politics in liberal democratic societies
- comments." International migration review, Spr, 1996,
V30(N1):375-388;
Yasemin Soysal, Limits of Citizenship, pp.
1-8; ch. 2; Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State,
Chap. 1;
Rogers Brubaker, Nationhood and Citizenship
in France and Germany, Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1992, ch. 1.
Douglas Massey, "International Migration at
the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: the Role of the State,"
Population and Development Review, June 1999.
January 22:
Session 3: Networks, Niches, and Social Capital
Required memo
J.S. MacDonald and L. MacDonald, 1974, "Chain Migration,
Ethnic Neighborhood Formation, and Social Networks," in
An Urban World, edited by C. Tilly, (Boston: Little, Brown);
Douglas Massey, et. al., 1987, Return to Aztlan, Berkeley:
University of California Press, Chapter 6;
Alejandro Portes, "Economic Sociology and the Sociology
of Immigration," in Portes, ed., The Economic Sociology
of Immigration, (1995);
Jacqueline Maria Hagan. 1998. "Social Networks, Gender and
Immigrant Settlement: Resource and Constraint." American
Sociological Review 63(1):55-67;
Monica Boyd, "Family and Personal Networks in International
Migration: Recent Developments and New Agendas," International
Migration Review, V. 23, 1989: 638-71
January 29:
Session 4: Approaches to the study of ethnicity and assimilation
Student presentations
W. Lloyd Warner and Leo Srole, The Social
Systems of American Ethnic Groups, New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1945 (last chapter);
Milton Gordon, Assimilation in American Life,
New York: Oxford University Press, 1965; chapter 3.
Nathan Glazer and Daniel Moynihan, 1969, Beyond
the Melting Pot, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969, Introduction;
William Yancey, Richard Juliani, Eugene Erikson,
"Emergent Ethnicity: A Review and Reformulation" American
Sociological Review, 1976, Pp. 391-403; (JSTOR)
Richard Alba and Victor Nee, "Rethinking assimilation
theory for a new era of immigration," International Migration
Review, 1997 Winter, V31 N4:826-874;
Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou, 1992, "The
New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants
among Post-1965 Immigrant Youth," Annals No. 530, 1993:
74-96;
Rogers Brubaker, "The Return of Assimilation?
Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in
France, Germany, and United States," unpublished, 2000,
pp. 1-8; 15-26.
February 5
Session 5: Economic adaptation
Required memo
George Borjas, Friends or Strangers, Chapter
6; Borjas, "The Economics of Immigration," Journal of Economic
Literature, December 1994 (JSTOR);
Borjas, "Assimilation and Changes in Cohort
Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigrant Earnings in
the 1980s?" Journal of Labor Economics, 1995;
Barry Chiswick, "The Effect of Americanization
on the Earnings of the Foreign-born," Journal of Political
Economy, V 86 (October), 1977: 897-92 (JSTOR);
Chiswick, "Is the new immigration less skilled
than the old?", Journal of Labor Economics, 1986, V. 4,
168-92;
John Isbister, The Immigration Debate: Remaking
America: West Hartford, CT: Kumarian, Ch 6;
Mark Ellis, A Tale of Five Cities? Trends
in Immigrant and Native-born Wages, in Waldinger, ed. Strangers
at the Gates (forthcoming);
National Research Council, The New Americans,
Washington: National Academy Press, 1997, pp. 173-219.
February 19
Session 7: Ethnic Change
Required memo
Orsi, Robert, 1992, "The Religious Boundaries
of an Inbetween People: Street Feste and the Problem of
the Dark-Skinned Other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990," American
Quarterly, V. 44, 3 (JSTOR);
Steven Steinberg, the Academic Melting Pot,
(chapter 1); Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick, City on
the Edge, Chapter 8;
D. Lopez and Y. Espiritu, "Panethnicity in
the United States: A Theoretical Framework," Ethnic and
Racial Studies, V. 13, 2, 1990;
Kathleen Conzen, et al, "The Invention of
Ethnicity: A Perspective from the U.S.A.," Journal of American
Ethnic History, V. 12, 1, 1992;
Dino Cinel From Italy to San Francisco, Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1982, chapter 8;
Yen Espiritu, Asian American Pan-Ethnicity,
chapters 6&7;
Mary Waters, Black Identities: West Indian
Immigrant Dreams and American Realities, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1999: ch 3
February 26
Session 8 : Social aspects: the Second generation
Student presentations
Ewa Morawska, For Bread with Butter, Chapter
8;
Herbert Gans, 1992, "Second-generation decline:
scenarios for the economic and ethnic futures of the post-1965
American immigrants," Ethnic and Racial Studies, V. 15,
2;
Caroline Ware, Greenwich Village (1935);
Min Zhou and Carl Bankston, Growing Up American,
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998, ch. 4;
Waters, Black Identities, Ch. 8;
Douglas Monroy, Rebirth: Mexicans in Los Angeles
from the Great Migration to the Great Depression, Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999, Chapter 4;
Alejandro Portes and Ruben Rumbaut, Legacies,
Chapter 9.
March 5
Session 9: Transnationalism
Required memo
Portes, A; Guarnizo, LE; Landolt, P. The study
of transnationalism: pitfalls and promise of an emergent
research field, Ethnic And Racial Studies, Mar, 1999, V22(N2):217-237;
Itzigsohn, J; Cabral, CD; Medina, EH; Vazquez,
O. Mapping Dominican transnationalism: narrow and broad
transnational practices. Ethnic And Racial Studies, Mar,
1999, V22(N2):316-339;
Vertovec, S. Conceiving and researching transnationalism,
Ethnic And Racial Studies, Mar, 1999, V22(N2):447-462;
Nina Glick Schiller, From Immigrant to Transmigrant:
Theorizing Transnational Migration, Anthropological Quarterly,
1995, V68(N1):48-63;
Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas, Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 1997, chaps. 7 and 8;
Donna Gabaccia, Italy's Many Diasporas, London:
UCL Press, 2000, chaps 4,8;
Soysal, Chap. 8
March 12
Session 10: Immigration Policy: Causes, Consequences, Controversies
Student presentation
Wayne Cornelius, Philip L. Martin, and James
Hollified, eds., Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective,
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994, Chapters 2-3;
John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns
of American Nativism, 1860-1925, New York: Atheneum, 1963,
chapter on "Closing the Gates;"
Higham, "Instead of a Sequel: How I Lost my
Subject," in Hirschman, Handbook;
Desmond King, Enacting Americans: Immigration,
Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy, Harvard,
2000: chapter 7, enacting origins;
Fitzgerald, Chap 4;
Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State,
Chap. 2
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