Full Description
With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in both Europe and the United States has made to understanding central aspects of international migration. The focus is on conceptual, methodological, and theoretical contributions that have emerged out of empirical research with regard to state policies and interests toward migration, dual citizenship, incorporation, transnational ties, entrepreneurship, illegal migration, intergenerational incorporation, and religion. No other publication brings the scholarship together in a similarly comprehensive manner, showing how the different approaches on each continent complement and speak to one another, thus contributing to the internationalization of migration studies.
Contents
PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Chapter 1. A Cross-Atlantic Dialogue: The Progress of Research and Theory in the Study of International Migration
Alejandro Portes and Josh DeWind
PART II: STATES AND MODES OF POLITICAL INCORPORATION
Chapter 2. The Factors that Make and Unmake Migration Policies
Stephen Castles
Chapter 3. The Emerging Migration State
James Hollifield
Chapter 4. Dual Citizenship as a Path-Dependent Process
Thomas Faist, Jürgen Gerdes and Beate Rieple
Chapter 5. Immigrant Incorporation in Western Democracies
Gary Freeman
PART III: TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AND IMMIGRANT ENTERPRISE
Chapter 6. Migrant Transnationalism and Modes of Transformation
Steven Vertovec
Chapter 7. Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society
Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller
Chapter 8. Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Covergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual Advancements
Min Zhou
PART IV: UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRATION AND THE SECOND GENERATION
Chapter 9. Measuring Undocumented Migration
Douglas Massey and Chiara Capoferro
Chapter 10. Illegal Migration: What Can We Know and What Can We Explain? The Case of Germany
Friedrich Heckmann
Chapter 11. Does the 'New' Immigration Require a 'New' Theory of Intergenerational Integration?
Harmut Esser
Chapter 12. Ages, Life Stages, and Generational Cohorts: Decomposing the Immigrant First and Second Generations in the United States
Rubén Rumbaut
PART V: RELIGION AND MIGRANT INCORPORATION
Chapter 13. The Role of Religion in the Origins and Adaptation of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Charles Hirschman
Chapter 14. Religion and Incorporation: Islam in France and Germany
Riva Kastoryano
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
