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◙ Transnationalism, Diasporas, “Here-There” Connections
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The Debate Over Assimilation
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The Second
Generation
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The
Economic Sociology of Immigration
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Immigration and the City
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Immigrant Workers and Labor Unions
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Ethnic
Entrepreneurship
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Immigration Policy and the Politics of Immigration
Transnationalism, Diasporas, “Here-There” Connections
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Review of Mark Choate,
Emigration Nation: the Making of Italy Abroad,
Harvard University Press, 2008, Ethnic and Racial
Studies, V 33, 8 (2010).
“Beyond Transnationalism: An Alternative Perspective on
Immigrants’ Homeland Connections,” in Mark Rosenblum
and Daniel Tichenor, eds. Oxford Handbook of
International Relations, forthcoming.
“Making the connection: Latino immigrants and their
cross-border ties,” (with Thomas Soehl), Ethnic and
Racial Studies, V 33, 9 (2010)
“Home Country Farewell: The Withering of Immigrants’
‘Transnational’ Ties,” Pp. 253-266 in Gerhard
Sonnert and Gerald Holton, eds., Helping Young Refugees
and Immigrants Succeed: Public Policy, Aid, and
Education, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“Rethinking Transnationalism,” Empiria: Revista de
Metología en Ciencias Sociales, No. 19 (2010): 21-38.
“Forward” to Stephane Dufoix, Diasporas,
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007.
“Between
“here” and “there”: Immigrant cross-border activities
and loyalties,” International Migration Review,
Vol. 42 No. 1 Spring 2008.
“‘Immigrant ‘Transnationalism’ and the Presence of the
Past,” in Elliott Barkan, et. al., eds. Borders,
Boundaries, And Bonds: America And Its Immigrants In
Eras Of Globalization, New York: New York University
Press, 2008: 267-285.
“Conflict and Contestation in the Cross-Border
Community: Hometown Associations Re-assessed,”
(co-authored with Eric Popkin and Hector Aquiles
Magana), Ethnic and Racial Studies, V 31
(January): 1-28, 2007.
“Le ‘transnationalisme’ des
immigrants et presence du passé,” Revue Europeene
des Migrations Internationales, V. 22, 2 (2006) :
23-42.
“Transnationalism in Question,” (with David
Fitzgerald) American Journal of Sociology, V 109,
5 (2004): 1177-95
The Debate Over Assimilation
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“Transforming Foreigners into Americans,” Pp. 137-48
in Mary Waters and Reed Ueda, eds., The New Americans,
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.
“The 21st Century: An Entirely New Story,” in Tamar
Jacoby, ed., Reinventing the Melting Pot: Will
Today's Immigrants Become Americans?, New York:
Basic, 2003, pp. 75-85.
“The Sociology of Immigration: Second Thoughts and
Reconsiderations,”
in
Host Societies and the
Reception of Immigrants,
edited by Jeffrey G. Reitz. San Diego: Center for
Comparative Immigration Research, 2003, pp. 21-43.
“The Bounded Community: Turning Foreigners into
Americans in 21st Century Los Angeles,”
Ethnic and Racial Studies, V 30, 7 (2007)
341-74.
“Today’s
Second Generation: Getting Ahead or Falling Behind?,”
(with Renee Reichl), in Michael Fix, ed.
Securing the Future:
US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader,
Washington, D.C.: Migration Policy Institute, 2007,
17-41.
“Bad jobs, good jobs, no jobs? The employment experience
of the Mexican American second generation,” (with
Nelson Lim and David Cort), Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies, V. 33, 1 (2007): 1-35.
“Did Manufacturing Matter? The experience of yesterday’s
second generation: a reassessment,” International
Migration Review, V 41, 1 (Spring 2007): 3-39.
“Will the new second generation experience ‘downward
assimilation’? Segmented assimilation re-assessed,”
(with Cynthia Feliciano) Ethnic and Racial Studies,
V 27, 3 (2004): 376-402.
“Second Generations: Past, Present, Future” (with Joel Perlmann), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,
V. 24, 1, 1998.
“Second Generation Decline? Immigrant Children Past and
Present -- A Reconsideration” (with Joel Perlmann),
International Migration Review, Vol 31, no. 4,
1997.
The Economic
Sociology of Immigration
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How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social
Organization of Labor,
(with Michael Lichter), Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2003.
“Networks
and Niches: The Continuing Significance of Ethnic
Connections”
in
Glenn Loury, Tariq Modood and Steven Teles, Race,
Ethnicity and Social Mobility in the US and UK, New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 343-362.
“Producing Conflict: Immigration and the Management of
Diversity in the Multiethnic Metropolis” (with Michael Lichter) in John Skrentny, ed., Color Lines:
Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Civil Rights
Options for America, Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2001.
“The Economic Theory of
Ethnic Conflict: A Review and Reformulation,” in
Jan Rath, ed., pp. 124-141 in: Jan Rath (ed.),
Immigrant Businesses: The Economic, Political and Social
Environment (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship
Series) Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan
Press, 2000
“Network, Bureaucracy,
Exclusion: Recruitment and Selection in an Immigrant
Metropolis,” in Frank Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose,
ed., Immigration and Opportunity: Race, Ethnicity,
and Employment in the United States, New York:
Russell Sage Foundation, 1999, pp. 228-259.
“Black/Immigrant Competition Re-assessed: New Evidence
from Los Angeles,” Sociological Perspectives, V.
40, 2, 1997.
“The Other Side of Embeddedness: A Case Study of the
Interplay of Economics and Ethnicity,”
Ethnic and Racial Studies, V. 18, 3 1995.
“The Making of an Immigrant Niche,”
International Migration Review, V. 28, 1 (1994),
pp. 3-30.
“Primary, Secondary, and Enclave Labor Markets: A
Training Systems Approach,”
(with Thomas Bailey), American Sociological Review,
V. 56, 4 (August) 1991: 432-445.
Immigration and the City
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Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America,
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Still the Promised City? New Immigrants and
African-Americans in Post-Industrial New York,
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Ethnic Los Angeles,
edited with Mehdi Bozorgmehr, New York: Russell Sage
Foundation Press, 1996.
“Migrants and urban labour
markets in Europe and North America” (with Malcolm
Cross), in Migrants, Minorities and Urban
Transformations in Comparative Perspective, edited
by Malcolm Cross and Robert Moore, London: Macmillan,
2002.
“Not the Promised City? Los Angeles and its Immigrants,”
Pacific Historical Review, V. 68, 2, 1999, pp.
253-272
“Immigration and Urban Change," Annual Review of
Sociology, V. 15, 1989, pp. 211-232.
Immigrant Workers and Labor Unions
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“Immigrant Workers and
American Labor: Challenge….or Disaster?” (with
Claudia Der-Martirosian), in Ruth Milkman, ed.,
Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in
Contemporary California, Ithaca, NY: ILR
Press/Cornell University Press, 2000, pp. 49-80.
“Helots No More -- A Case
Study of the Justice for Janitors Campaign” (first
author with Chris Erickson, Ruth Milkman, Daniel J.B.
Mitchell, Abel Valenzuela, Kent Wong, and Maurice
Zeitlin), in Kate Bronfenbrenner, et. al., eds.
Organizing to Win, Ithaca, New York: Cornell
University Press, 1997
Ethnic Entrepreneurship
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Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise
in New York's Garment Trades
(New York University Press, 1986; paper, 1989).
Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial
Society
(with Howard Aldrich, Robin Ward, and associates;
Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990).
“The Two Sides of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Reply to
Bonacich,”
International Migration Review, V. 27, 3, 1993,
pp. 692-701.
“The Ethnic Enclave Debate Revisited,”
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,
V. 17, 3, 1993: 428-436.
“Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship”
(with Howard Aldrich), Annual Review of Sociology,
V. 16, 1990.
“Immigrant Enterprise: A Critique and Reformulation,”
Theory and Society, V. 15, 1, 1986.
Immigration Policy and the Politics of Immigration
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Review of Linda Bosniak,
The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary
Membership, International Migration
Review, Volume 43, 1 (March 2009): 231-233
"The
Border Within: Citizenship Facilitated and Impeded,"
Contemporary Sociology, V 37, 4 (2008)
“Strangeness at the Gates: The Peculiar Politics of
Immigration,” (co-authored with Nazgol Ghandnoosh)
International Migration Review, International
Migration Review, V. 40, 3 (2006): 719-734.
“Fiddling While the Border Festers: The Dim Prospects
for Immigration Reform,” New Labor Forum, V
15, 2 (2006):21-29
