We examine the institutions that comprise the American health system and their relationship to a surging immigrant population. The clash between the system and this human flow originates in the large number of immigrants who are unauthorized, poor, and uninsured and, hence, unable to access a...

We examine the interaction between the immigration and health systems of the United States on the basis of a study of forty health care delivery institutions in Florida, California, and New Jersey. We list and examine barriers to care encountered by the foreign-born, especially unauthorized...

More than 20 years ago, as part of my dissertation research, I sat behind a sewing machine at a Mexican maquiladora in Ciudad Juarez. That border city was the cradle of outsourcing in the region for American companies aiming to reduce production costs and improve their competitive edge in the...

In a recent review of Phillip Roth’s prolific contribution to American Literature, a critic observes about the central character in his most notorious book, that Alexander Portnoy’s onanistic hold to the flesh is literally, in rebellion against the life that is being forced upon him . . . A...

How do spiritual and religious values interface with the process of assimilation among the children of immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the New Millennium? The purpose of this paper is to address that question on the basis of ethnographic evidence collected between 2002 and...

Nearly a decade ago the notion of segmented assimilation was first introduced to elucidate the differential patterns of incorporation of recent immigrants into American society (Portes 1995). The concept took stock of two concomitant trends (a) the rapid increase in migration to the United...

How do spiritual and religious values interface with the process of assimilation among the children of immigrants in the United States at the beginning of the New Millennium? The purpose of this paper is to address that question on the basis of ethnographic evidence collected between 2002 and...

Nearly a decade ago the notion of segmented assimilation was first introduced to elucidate the differential patterns of incorporation of recent immigrants into American society (Portes 1995). The concept took stock of two concomitant trends (a) the rapid increase in migration to the United...

More than 20 years ago, as part of my dissertation research, I sat behind a sewing machine at a Mexican maquiladora in Ciudad Juarez. That border city was the cradle of outsourcing in the region for American companies aiming to reduce production costs and improve their competitive edge in the...

In a recent review of Phillip Roth’s prolific contribution to American Literature, a critic observes about the central character in his most notorious book, that Alexander Portnoy’s onanistic hold to the flesh is literally, in rebellion against the life that is being forced upon him . . . A...