Immigration since the 1960s has transformed the nation. Today, close to one-fourth of the American population is of immigrant stock – immigrants themselves or children of immigrants. The same rough proportion holds among young Americans, aged 18 or younger. Children of immigrants and immigrant...

Why is Jin telling us that we should learn Chinese? Is there an Asian American youth culture? How does immigration and relative generation define it? This essay addresses Americans of Asian descent1 who are roughly 18 to 25 years old: I focus on the mass-mediated popular cultures that they...

This paper summarizes a research program on the new immigrant second generation initiated in the early 1990s and completed in 2006. The four field waves of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) are described and the main theoretical models emerging from it are presented and...

La complejidad de los procesos migratorios contemporáneos ha hecho emerger una serie de preocupaciones vinculadas con distintas dimensiones vinculadas a los mismos, que en el pasado no tenían las mismas características ni revestían una importancia semejante. Durante mucho tiempo y en...

En 1990 visité la población de San Juan Mixtepec en Oaxaca, para entregar a la biblioteca municipal una copia de mi tesis de licenciatura realizada en la población (Besserer 1988). El día de mi llegada fue el 24 de junio, día de San Juan, patrón de Mixtepec, y día también de la fiesta...

The problems of Mexican workers are obviously related to an international environment that is highly detrimental to traditional forms of labor organization and working conditions. Thus, the factors mentioned here should be understood as arising from the interaction between such an environment...

We review the empirical literature on ethnic economic enclaves after the concept was formulated twenty-five years ago. The balance of this literature is mixed, but many studies reporting negative conclusions were marred by faulty measurement of the concept. We discuss the original theoretical...

The great immigration battle of 2006 features, on one side, millions of immigrants and their supporters and, on the other, the Minutemen, some Congressmen, and Lou Dobbs. On the face of it, the battle is uneven, but then Dobbs has television on his side, and he uses it to great effect. The...

Transnational activism is today at the center of scholarly and political debates on globalization. After two decades of relatively uncontested expansion of neoliberal policies and institutions, the last decade has witnessed a veritable explosion of networks, coalitions, movements, and other...

This paper provides an analysis of artistic expression about Mexican immigration to the U.S. drawing on work primarily created in the U.S. by Mexican and Chicano artists and other artists who have participated in creating a visual record and contemporary picture of Mexican migration to the U.S....