Levels of fertility among Indochinese refugees in the United States are explored in the context of a highly compressed demographic transition implicit in the move from high-fertility Southeast Asian societies to a low-fertility resettlement region. A theoretical model is developed to explain the...

This paper analyzes the contradictions in the process of accumula tion in the context of backwardness, looking in detail at the Peruvian economy over an eight year period. A general theoretical framework is developed in which the barrier to accumulation is derived from the sphere of production,...

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,...

No state has felt the impact of the new immigration more than California, and no institution more than its public schools. A third of the nation's immigrants are concentrated in California; and over a third of California's K-12 public school children speak a language other than English at home....

Using merged mid-decade data through 2006 of the Current Population Survey (CPS), this report provides a detailed national-level profile of the more than 67 million young adults in the United States, ages 18 to 34. The report examines the growing size and diversity of this population, the living...