Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1 Reed Ueda
Part I Policy and Politics
1 A Nation of Immigrants and a Gatekeeping Nation: American Immigration Law and Policy 5 Erika Lee
2 Naturalization and Nationality 36 Irene Bloemraad and Reed Ueda
3 Immigration and Ethnic Politics 58 James J. Connolly
4 Immigrant Transnationals and US Foreign Relations 77 Xiao-huang Yin and Peter H. Koehn
5 Bodies from Abroad: Immigration, Health, and Disease 106 Alan M. Kraut
6 The Politics of Immigration and the Rise of the Migration State: Comparative and Historical Perspectives 132 James F. Hollifield
Part II Ethnicity , Race , and Nation
7 Ethnic and Racial Identity 161 Marilyn Halter
8 Nativism and Prejudice Against Immigrants 177 Tyler Anbinder
9 Assimilation and American National Identity 202 Michael R. Olneck
10 Internationalization and Transnationalization 225 David Gerber
11 Immigration and Race Relations 255 Jeffrey Melnick
Part III Population and Society
12 Demography and American Immigration 277 Michael S. Teitelbaum
13 Gender and Immigration 289 Suzanne M. Sinke
14 Immigrant Residential and Mobility Patterns 309 Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
15 Characteristics of Immigrants to the United States: 1820–2003 328 Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig
16 Marriage Patterns in Historical Perspective: Gender and Ethnicity 359 Robert McCaa, Albert Esteve, and Clara Cortina
Part IV Economy and Society
17 Immigrant Social Mobility and the Historian 373 Kenneth A. Scherzer
18 Labor and Immigration History: First Principles 394 Leon Fink
19 Immigration in the Economy: Development and Enterprise 409 Nian-Sheng Huang
20 Immigrants in the American Housing Market 424 Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller
Part V Culture and Community
21 Immigration and American Diversity: Food for Thought 443 Donna R. Gabaccia
22 Immigration and Language 471 Nancy C. Carnevale
23 Immigration and Education in the United States 492 Paula S. Fass
24 Religion and Ethnicity 513 John McClymer
25 Mutual Aid Societies and Fraternal Orders 528 Daniel Soyer
Index 547