PHILIP Q. YANG received his undergraduate education at Zhongshan University (Sun Yat-Sen University), in the People's Republic of China, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA. He currently teaches in the Department of Sociology at UCLA. His research interests include immigration, citizenship acquisition, ethnicity, social demography, and China's population issues. Most of his articles have appeared in such journals as International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Population and Environment.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPost-1965 Immigration to the United States: Background, Trends, and Cross-National VariationsStructural Determinants of Cross-National Variation in Immigration: A Theoretical OverviewData and MethodologyStructural Determinants of Cross-National Variation in Total Immigration to the U.S.: A Cross-National AnalysisGeneral Applicability of the Analytical FrameworkConclusionAppendix A: Immigration Preference SystemsAppendix B: Countries and Their Classifications Used in the AnalysesAppendix C: Measurement Models for Latent Variables in Final Causal ModelsSelected Bibliography

PHILIP Q. YANG received his undergraduate education at Zhongshan University (Sun Yat-Sen University), in the People's Republic of China, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA. He currently teaches in the Department of Sociology at UCLA. His research interests include immigration, citizenship acquisition, ethnicity, social demography, and China's population issues. Most of his articles have appeared in such journals as International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Population and Environment.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPost-1965 Immigration to the United States: Background, Trends, and Cross-National VariationsStructural Determinants of Cross-National Variation in Immigration: A Theoretical OverviewData and MethodologyStructural Determinants of Cross-National Variation in Total Immigration to the U.S.: A Cross-National AnalysisGeneral Applicability of the Analytical FrameworkConclusionAppendix A: Immigration Preference SystemsAppendix B: Countries and Their Classifications Used in the AnalysesAppendix C: Measurement Models for Latent Variables in Final Causal ModelsSelected Bibliography

PHILIP Q. YANG received his undergraduate education at Zhongshan University (Sun Yat-Sen University), in the People's Republic of China, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA. He currently teaches in the Department of Sociology at UCLA. His research interests include immigration, citizenship acquisition, ethnicity, social demography, and China's population issues. Most of his articles have appeared in such journals as International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Population and Environment.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPost-1965 Immigration to the United States: Background, Trends, and Cross-National VariationsStructural Determinants of Cross-National Variation in Immigration: A Theoretical OverviewData and MethodologyStructural Determinants of Cross-National Variation in Total Immigration to the U.S.: A Cross-National AnalysisGeneral Applicability of the Analytical FrameworkConclusionAppendix A: Immigration Preference SystemsAppendix B: Countries and Their Classifications Used in the AnalysesAppendix C: Measurement Models for Latent Variables in Final Causal ModelsSelected Bibliography