immigrants should depend not just on their own characteristics, but also on the legacy of past immigration from the same country … that history matters in immigrant assimilation: the stronger is the tradition of immigration from a given source country …

The Immigration Act of 1965 marked a dramatic shift in policy and one with major long term consequences for the volume … and composition of immigration to the United States. Here we explore the political economy of a reform that has been … overshadowed by the Civil Rights and Great Society programs. We find that public opinion was against expanding immigration, but it …