Crossings

by Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M.; David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

• ISBN13: 9780674177666
• ISBN10: 0674177665
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ David Rockefeller

Summary

In the United States immigration is both history and destiny. It is the driving force behind a most significant social transformation taking place in American society at the end of our millennium. Arguably few other social phenomena are likely to impact the future character of American culture and society as much as the ongoing wave of "new immigration."Who are the new immigrants? What do they want? How are they changing American society? This cross-disciplinary book brings together twelve essays by the leading scholars of the most significant aspect of the new immigration: Mexican immigration to the United States. Crossings theorizes aspects of recent Mexican immigration that are new and that demarcate this wave of immigration from earlier experiences in this century.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	viii
I. OVERVIEW	3	(50)
Chapter 1 Introduction: Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives	3	(50)
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
II. ANTECEDENTS AND NEW DEMOGRAPHIC FORMATIONS	53	(60)
Chapter 2 Recent Structural Changes in Mexico's Economy: A Preliminary Analysis of Some Sources of Mexican Migration to the United States	53	(26)
Enrique Dussel Peters
Commentary:
John H. Coatsworth
Chapter 3 U.S. Immigration Policies and Trends: The Growing Importance of Migration from Mexico	79	(34)
Susan Gonzalez Baker
Frank D. Bean
Augustin Escobar Latapi
Sidney Weintraub
Commentary:
Mary C. Waters
III. ECONOMIC THEMES	113	(94)
Chapter 4 The Structural Embeddedness of Demand for Mexican Immigrant Labor: New Evidence from California	113	(44)
Wayne A. Cornelius
Commentary:
Robert Smith
Chapter 5 Dimensions of Economic Adaptation by Mexican-Origin Men Dowell Myers	157	(50)
Commentary:
Nathan Glazer
IV. SOCIAL THEMES	207	(76)
Chapter 6 Migration and Integration: Intermarriages among Mexicans and Non-Mexicans in the United States	207	(18)
Jorge Durand
Commentary:
Merilee Grindle
Chapter 7 Access to Health Insurance and Health Care for Mexican American Children in Immigrant Families	225	(26)
E. Richard Brown
Roberta Wyn
Hongjian Yu
Abel Valenzuela
Liane Dong
Commentary:
Felton Earls
Chapter 8 The Education of Mexican Immigrant Children	251	(32)
Enrique T. Trueba
Commentary:
Gary Orfield
V. PSYCHOCULTURAL THEMES	283	(130)
Chapter 9 Cultural Mourning, Immigration, and Engagement: Vignettes from the Mexican Experience	283	(24)
Ricardo C. Ainslie
Commentary:
Peggy Levitt
Chapter 10 Ethnic Mexicans and the Transformation of "American" Social Space: Reflections on Recent History	307	(34)
David G. Gutierrez
Commentary:
George J. Sanchez
Chapter 11 The U. S. Immigration Control Offensive: Constructing an Image of Order on the Southwest Border	341	(22)
Peter Andreas
Commentary:
Jacqueline Hagan
Chapter 12 Immigration and Public Opinion	363	(50)
Thomas J. Espenshade
Maryanne Belanger
Commentary:
Michael Jones-Correa
Epilogue	413	(8)
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
Index	421