Introduction: Immigration, incorporation, assimilation, and the limits of transnationalism

Journal of American Ethnic History

Volumn 25, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 1-32

  Barkan, Elliott R ^a  

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References (24)

1. Hassan M. Fattah, "Anger Burns on the Fringe of Britain's Muslims," New York Times, 16 July 2005
2. Sarah Lyall, "Lost in Bombings, Diverse and Promising Lives," New York Times, 17 July 2005
3. Nina Bernstein, "In American Cities, No Mirror Image of Muslims of Leeds," New York Times, 21 July 2005
4. Gary P. Freeman, "Immigrant Incorporation in Western Democracies," International Migration Review 38.3 (Fall 2004): 947
5. Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, "Worlds of the Second Generation," in Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation, ed. Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters (New York, 2004), 4
6. Barkan, 54-58; and, in Kivisto, Incorporating Diversity, 194-98
7. Peter Kivisto, "The Revival of Assimilation in Historical Perspective," 5-14, in Incorporating Diversity, ed. Kivisto
8. This does not rule out the possibility that such dualities existed earlier; it was simply more challenging for immigrants to do so. See Peggy Levitt, Josh DeWind, and Steven Vertovec, "International Perspectives on Transnational Migration: An Introduction," International Migration Review 37 no. 3 (Fall 2003): 567-71, and especially 571
9. Reed Ueda, "Historical Patterns of Immigrant Status and Incorporation in the United States," 305, in E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation, ed. Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf (New York, 2001)
10. Kivisto (22) also cites Will Kymlicka's point that the four prerequisites for the functioning and integration of a multicultural society - in effect, the ground rules groups and mainstream society both must accept - are "public spiritedness," a "sense of justice," "civility and tolerance," and a "shared sense of solidarity or loyalty." Akin to this has been the recent pressures on American Muslims to demonstrate their commitment to American principles by explicitly disavowing terrorism as a legitimate part of Islamic teachings. In July 2005, American Muslim leaders did issue a fatwa, judicial ruling, following the bombings in London, and declared that Islam condemns extremism and violence against civilians. Laurie Goodstein, "From Muslims In America, A New Fatwa On Terrorism," New York Times, 28 July 2005
11. Ueda, "Historical Patterns," 313
12. U.S. Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security, 2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Washington, September 2004), Table 2
13. and Jeffrey S. Passel, "Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population," Pew Hispanic Center, 21 March 2005, 1
14. Betsey Cummings, "Cash Flow Across Border Starts to Get More Savvy," New York Times, 28 July 2005
15. Celia W. Dugger, "Study Finds Small Developing Lands Hit Hardest by 'Brain Drain,'" New York Times, 25 October 2005
16. Afroyim v. Rusk, 387 US 253 (1967), and Ester Hernandez's essay in this collection
17. Portes, "Conclusion," 876-77; and Kivisto, Incorporating Diversity, 23
18. For example, see Elliott R. Barkan, "Return of the Nativists? California Public Opinion and Immigration in the 1980s and 1990s," Social Science History 27, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 229-83
19. and David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (New York, 1998)
20. Eric Lipton, "Report Finds U.S. Failing on Overstays of Visas," New York Times 23 October 2005
21. Jonathan Peterson, "Bush Polishes His Guest Worker Plan," New York Times, 23 October 2005
22. Editorial, "Broken border, broken record," Los Angeles Times, 22 October 2005
23. Nicholas Ricardi, "Judge Rules Students Can Stay in U.S.," Los Angeles Times, 22 October 2005
24. Steven A. Camarota, "Economy Slowed, But Immigration Didn't: The Foreign-Born Population, 2000-2004," Washington: Center for Migration Studies, November 2004, 1