The United States is an immigrant nation—nowhere is the truth of this statement more
evident than in its major cities. Immigrants and their children comprise nearly three-fifths of …

A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States-thoroughly revised and
updated. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in US history …

In recent decades, the population of immigrants in the United States has steadily increased.
The numbers of foreign-born living in the United States grew from 9.6 million in 1970 to 28.4 …

In the history, the very personality, of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of
immigration at the turn of the last century. Today a similar influx of new immigrants is …

The almighty Latin king and queen nation: Street politics and the transformation of a New York
City gang THE ALMIGHTY LATIN KING AND QUEEN NATION Page 2 THE ALMIGHTY LATIN …

When people move across state borders, they enter not only a different labor market and
political structure but also a new system of social stratification by class, race, ethnicity, and …

The structuration model linking macro‐and micro‐level societal structures and individual
actions in a reciprocal causality is applied to the analysis of the relationship between …

Studies of the “new transnationalism” and the assimilation of immigrants and their children
into the host society—the two major concerns informing American studies of immigration and …

In this paper we explore the racial and ethnic self-identification of Dominican immigrants in
the United States. This issue is central in understanding how immigrants experience the …

The high prevalence of childhood asthma in low-income, inner-city populations is not fully
understood but has been at least partly attributed to the disproportionate exposures …