Previous research focusing on the study of immigrant offspring has shown inconclusive results and uncovered different ways of their incorporation into society. This contrasts with the unilateral model suggested by the more radical notions of “linear assimilation”, for instance, the...

Previous research focusing on the study of immigrant offspring has shown inconclusive results and uncovered different ways of their incorporation into society. This contrasts with the unilateral model suggested by the more radical notions of “linear assimilation”, for instance, the...

This study was prompted by concerns about the ways in which immigrant organizations, especially those of a transnational character, may retard or prevent political integration among recent migrants to the United States. For this purpose, we constructed an inventory of all organizations created...

This study was prompted by concerns about the ways in which immigrant organizations, especially those of a transnational character, may retard or prevent political integration among recent migrants to the United States. For this purpose, we constructed an inventory of all organizations created...

We review the theoretical literature on the concept of institutions and its relationship to national development, propose a definition of the concept, and advance six hypotheses about institutional adequacy and contributions to national development. We then present results of a comparative...

Economics and economic sociology are based on an action model of self-interest and exchange, even though tempered by structural and cultural kinds of embeddedness. People are said to always expend their valued scarce resources – time, skill, energy, money, and other resources – to gain...

We review the theoretical literature on the concept of institutions and its relationship to national development, propose a definition of the concept, and advance six hypotheses about institutional adequacy and contributions to national development. We then present results of a comparative...

Immigration is changing America. By 2007, the foreign-born population surpassed 40 million, representing more than 15 percent of the total. As is well-known, contemporary immigration is bifurcated into a flow of highly educated immigrants and a still larger movement of poorly-educated manual...

Immigration is changing America. By 2007, the foreign-born population surpassed 40 million, representing more than 15 percent of the total. As is well-known, contemporary immigration is bifurcated into a flow of highly educated immigrants and a still larger movement of poorly-educated manual...