Rethinking Migration

Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. His current research is on the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation and the rise of transnational immigrant communities in the United States. One of his most recent books, co-authored with Rubén G. Rumbaut, is Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America (California 2001), winner of the 2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association.

“This book has many strengths. Most notably, it represents a much-needed attempt to open a dialog into the new aspects of migration and immigration in today’s global era…[It is] an excellent edited collection. The book will be of interest to scholars of immigration the world over. It would also be an excellent resource for a graduate course on immigration and migrant flows.”  ·  Canadian Studies in Population “This is an excellent volume. The choice of articles covers an appropriate set of topics; the articles themselves are well-researched, well-written, and form a coherent body representing the best thinking on migration today. I would highly recommend it for use in college-level courses on migration.”  ·  Journal of Anthropological Research“By structurally examining migration processes, Rethinking Migration is an informative, conceptually and structurally clear, and theoretically transparent book. Its main contribution to the field of migration studies is to be found in its comparative perspective, which produces interesting and sometimes opposing views on the topic.”  · Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale“…an excellent text that is highly recommended for researchers with an interest in migration from across the social and political sciences…It is impossible to do justice in this short review to either the comprehensiveness of the coverage, or to the quality of the scholarship which underpins its chapter contents… Portes, DeWind and their authors should be congratulated for producing an extremely valuable contribution to the advancement of migration studies.”  · CLR News“Overall, the volume presents a broad range of excellent articles with thought-provoking concepts and suggestions for further research agendas. Sometimes, these proposals are not entirely novel; they echo debates which have been conducted in history or anthropology for some years. However, the essays always contain original suggestions for ways in which general questions can be translated into empirical research agendas.“  · H-Net Book Reviews“… has a number of innovative insights… The book should be read by scholars of immigration to Europe and the United States and by those seeking theoretical insights into the phenomena surrounding immigration in general.”  · JRAI“… this interesting collection… is informative, stimulating, and well documented.”  · Choice

• PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONChapter 1. A Cross-Atlantic Dialogue: The Progress of Research and Theory in the Study of International MigrationAlejandro Portes and Josh DeWindPART II: STATES AND MODES OF POLITICAL INCORPORATIONChapter 2. The Factors that Make and Unmake Migration PoliciesStephen CastlesChapter 3. The Emerging Migration StateJames HollifieldChapter 4. Dual Citizenship as a Path-Dependent ProcessThomas Faist, Jürgen Gerdes and Beate RiepleChapter 5. Immigrant Incorporation in Western DemocraciesGary FreemanPART III: TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AND IMMIGRANT ENTERPRISEChapter 6. Migrant Transnationalism and Modes of TransformationSteven VertovecChapter 7. Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on SocietyPeggy Levitt and Nina Glick SchillerChapter 8. Revisiting Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Covergencies, Controversies, and Conceptual AdvancementsMin ZhouPART IV: UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRATION AND THE SECOND GENERATIONChapter 9. Measuring Undocumented MigrationDouglas Massey and Chiara CapoferroChapter 10. Illegal Migration: What Can We Know and What Can We Explain? The Case of GermanyFriedrich HeckmannChapter 11. Does the ‘New’ Immigration Require a ‘New’ Theory of Intergenerational Integration?Harmut EsserChapter 12. Ages, Life Stages, and Generational Cohorts: Decomposing the Immigrant First and Second Generations in the United StatesRubén RumbautPART V: RELIGION AND MIGRANT INCORPORATIONChapter 13. The Role of Religion in the Origins and Adaptation of Immigrant Groups in the United StatesCharles HirschmanChapter 14. Religion and Incorporation: Islam in France and GermanyRiva KastoryanoNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex