This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political,...

There is no comprehensive theory of international migration, but in this chapter we review a wide range of theories organized into four major categories: those that seek to explain the determinants of the origins of migration, its continuation and directionality, the uses of migrant labor, and...

This chapter aims to lay out the basis for a sound understanding of the origins of contemporary immigration and for viable policies toward it. Here we dissect the disconnect between the public perception of immigration and the underlying realities rooted in the political economy of the nation...

This chapter examines three distinct phases of international migration to the U.S. over the last century and a third: (1) the Great European Waves of the period from 1880 to 1930, which accompanied the American industrial revolution, reached a historic zenith in 1910 when 14.7 percent of the...