This article reviews the debate on economic and social consequences of immigrant
entrepreneurship as well as theories advanced to explain different levels of self-employment …

More than a quarter century of research has generated fruitful results and new insights into
the understanding of the lived experiences of the new second generation, which broadly …

Asian Americans are often stereotyped as the “model minority.” Their sizeable presence at
elite universities and high household incomes have helped construct the narrative of Asian …

The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people
have been deported since 1997–twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There …

What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of
restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to …

In response to political pressure, President Obama authorized the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2012, giving qualified undocumented young people …

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These
gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American …

We summarize prior theories on the adaptation process of the contemporary immigrant
second generation as a prelude to presenting additive and interactive models showing the …

Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American
society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin …

Research on immigration, educational achievement, and ethnoraciality has followed the
lead of racialization and assimilation theories by focusing empirical attention on the …